Guest Speaker: The Honorable James F. Geurts,Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development, and Acquisition With almost a year since his swearing in, Secretary Geurts is looking to shake up processes and protocols to increase Navy efficiencies and effectivity. With multiple, simultaneous initiatives, he is encouraging digitization to streamline mega-projects and generate cost-savings; devolving programmatic decision-making authorit...

Cloud. It’s what everyone at the Department of Defense is talking about. No other battlefield innovation is getting more attention than cloud, which is largely due to the multi-billion dollar JEDI program that the Pentagon is working on along with the milCloud effort being bolstered by the Defense Information Systems Agency. By now, we are all aware that cloud is king, and CIOs are continuing to make the cloud more integral to their day-...

Uncover how the most effective government IT teams leverage Jira Service Desk to automate their IT service management (ITSM) process and achieve record-breaking mean-time-to-resolution (MTTR). Attendees will interact as teams in a simulated service desk environment and respond to incident scenarios with a streamlined ITSM toolchain including Atlassian's Jira Service Desk.Register for this complimentary Jira Service Desk workshop where attendee...

Join us October 4 at the Observation Deck of the CEB Tower in Rosslyn, Va., for candid conversations on how the U.S. government can best prepare for a new era in cybersecurity and the key role emerging technologies play in bolstering our online infrastructure. Federal and state agencies are constantly under siege. In response, federal CISOs and CIOs have bolstered defenses and started to go on the attack. Many agencies have hit a pivotal point...

MARKET CONNECTIONS, MERRITT GROUP AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICES COUNCIL ARE EXCITED TO SHARE RESULTS FROM THE LATEST FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CONTRACTOR STUDY AT A BREAKFAST AND BRIEFING. Join us to learn about the best BD and marketing practices from the industry’s leading companies. We will share results from our latest research study, followed by a panel of experts who will share their personal insights on best practices. The breakfast setting...

The Association of the United States Army's Institute of Land Warfare (ILW) presents its Army Installations of the Future Hot Topic to be held 20 March 2018 at the AUSA Conference and Event Center in Arlington, Virginia. Army installations are strategic platforms for Army forces, training sites for our Soldiers, and home to Army Families. Professional and competent management of these critical facilities are vital to a globally responsive Unit...

Weapons of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear nature remain a hot global topic. Discuss the latest on these and other issues with Dr. Ronald Hann of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, guest speaker for NDIA’s CBRN Division Breakfast Wednesday, Feb. 14, in Arlington, VA. Dr. Hann’s nearly 30-year Army career was devoted to chemistry, its use in the service and in teaching it to officers. Now the director of the chemic...

The Science & Engineering Technology (S&ET) Division's Executive Breakfast Series provides a forum for government, industry and academic collaboration related to science and engineering technology advancements in the defense arena. February's S&ET Breakfast will feature Dr. Thomas P. Russell, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army (Research and Technology) and Army Chief Scientist. Dr. Russell was selected as the Deputy Assistant S...

AFCEA Bethesda's Monthly Breakfast series features panel discussions led by senior-executive government representatives. The goals of the event series are to foster better inter-agency communication, share best practices and lessons learned and identify mission-critical IT issues affecting the federal IT community. With speakers drawn largely from federal civilian agencies, the panel format offers a compelling snapshot of multiple agency persp...

AFCEA Bethesda's Monthly Breakfast series features panel discussions led by senior-executive government representatives. The goals of the event series are to foster better inter-agency communication, share best practices and lessons learned and identify mission-critical IT issues affecting the federal IT community. With speakers drawn largely from federal civilian agencies, the panel format offers a compelling snapshot of multiple agency persp...