The NATO Air Command Ramstein is partnering with the U.S. Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) to present this year’s Intelligence, Surveillance, Targeting, and Reconnaissance (ISTAR) Symposium and Technology Showcase. This three day event dedicated to ISTAR capabilities will take place at Ramstein Air Base, Germany on 6–8 November 2012. Recent NATO operations have highlighted the key role ISTAR plays in today’s warfare. Understandin...

Severe challenges remain in projecting highly effective combat trauma care to front line forces and ensuring injured military and civilian personnel are swiftly and safely evacuated to medical facilities for enhanced care. Defence IQ’s inaugural MEDEVAC symposium will bring together senior military medical officers to explore the challenges surrounding medical evacuation and in-theatre care, such as the standardisation of equipment, the...

The National Defense Industrial Association Systems Engineering Division is pleased to announce the 12th Annual CMMI® (Capability Maturity Model Integration) Technology Conference & User Group. The purpose of the conference is to exchange ideas, concepts and lessons learned concerning the continuing evolution, adoption and use of the CMMI® and its associated appraisal methods. This conference brings together CMMI® adopters, use...

CONFERENCE OBJECTIVESThe goal of the conference on Physics-based Modeling in Design & Development for U.S. Defense is to facilitate design innovation to improve DoD acquisition by speeding adoption of advanced models and tools by the U.S. defense government/industry complex to reduce acquisition time, cost and risk and improve system performance. The conference will build a community of interest in this area by bringing together the practi...

Join Us at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley in November Recent IDC research shows that worldwide spending on cloud services will grow almost threefold, reaching $44.2 billion by 2013. And a recent Gartner report predicts that the volume of enterprise data overall will increase by a phenomenal 650% over the next five years.These two unstoppable enterprise IT trends, Cloud Computing and Big Data, will converge in Silicon Valley at 11th Cloud Expo ...

It's one of today's biggest IT challenges The tools that enable global connections also expose us to dangerous, complex new risks. So, how can government agencies unlock their infrastructure and open up opportunities to collaborate across jurisdictions, with other countries, with the private sector, and most importantly, with their citizen constituents? Can they do so and still protect their sensitive information? These are significant hurdles...

We invite you to join us for the next program from the Future of Financial Crime speaker series, “The Missing Link: Relevance of the private, state and local sectors to our homeland security.” Most Americans are familiar with at least some of the key players in the “alphabet soup of agencies” dealing with the global war on terrorism. But the homeland security enterprise has always been viewed by our country’s poli...

The politics of change Change has been slow to come in Mexico, but 2012 could be a tipping point. Over 1,700 elected positions will be filled at the federal, state and local levels, including the presidency, federal congress and the mayor of Mexico City. But five years into a crippling drug war, a convincing security strategy has yet to be put forward. And in an economy heavily dominated by monopolies and oligopolies, new rules for increasing...

The U.S. Chamber’s U.S.-Iraq Business Initiative (USIBI) is partnering with the U.S. Business Council in Iraq (USBCI) to organize a high-profile Supplier’s Conference in Basrah, Iraq on November 7, 2012. During this conference, representatives of participating companies will meet the governor of Basrah, other key Iraqi officials, Iraqi business leaders, and U.S. government representatives in Basrah. The economic data bears out tha...

DESIGNING OUR CONNECTED FUTURE The era of connectedness has created a world of increasing complexity. Design, UX and UI are the keys to making sense of this overwhelming and convoluted landscape. Master that intersection between connectivity and design and you’ll emerge as a future leader. GigaOM RoadMap examines how product design, user interfaces, and the underlying frameworks will evolve over the next several years to advance and huma...