This virtual event explores some of the decadal – if not generational – questions facing the Nation’s space enterprise. Years of planning and preparation culminated in the creation of the US Space Force in December 2019; however, much work remains to achieve the vision articulated in the 2020 Defense Space Strategy. As the US Space Force matures its strategy, operational concepts, and acquisition plans -- with a new administr...

Looking back over the last year, federal agencies have been forced to make some significant changes with respect to technology and cybersecurity in order to sustain their mission in a secure way and shift to a workforce that is largely distributed. The pandemic has forced government to rethink many of the practices and approaches that worked previously, but it has also opened up the possibility of challenging the status quo - and not only reth...

Harnessing 5G Capabilities for The Future Joint Force Fifth generation mobile networks, or 5G, promises low latency, higher speeds and ubiquitous connectivity of people and systems across the defense and military enterprise. According to the Defense Department 5G Strategy, “those nations that master advanced communications technologies and ubiquitous connectivity will have a long-term economic and military advantage.” The military...

Organizations are creating data at breakneck speeds - and their need to better understand, easily share, and regulate security access to that data is expanding even faster. Providing authorized, ubiquitous, and reliable access to proprietary, personal, and confidential data on a real-time, 24x7, and global basis is daunting - and doing it at scale while ensuring it can't be altered, destroyed, or ransomed is non-trivial. Doing this across mult...

When More Bandwidth isn’t enough; How NTS and Riverbed Can Get Your Apps Running Like New Again, Without Compromising Security. The delicate balance between performance and security goes back thousands of years. In the same way ancient armies had to balance aggressive warfare tactics with the ability to protect their flanks, the desire to squeeze more and more performance out of our technology infrastructure can lead to either real or pe...

AFCEA Bethesda is proud to bring you our 13th Annual Health IT Summit reimagined as a series of agency-focused events. Join us each Tuesday in March for Health IT March Forward, an entire month of cutting-edge information about today’s digital health IT innovations. ___________________________________ Health IT transformation has been high on the agenda for government healthcare in recent years, and the COVID-19 outbreak accelerated digi...

AFCEA Bethesda is proud to bring you our 13th Annual Health IT Summit reimagined as a series of agency-focused events. Join us each Tuesday in March for Health IT March Forward, an entire month of cutting-edge information about today’s digital health IT innovations. ___________________________________ Health IT transformation has been high on the agenda for government healthcare in recent years, and the COVID-19 outbreak accelerated digi...

Least privilege is intended to prevent “over-privileged access” by users, applications or services to help reduce the risk of exploitation without impacting productivity or involving the IT help desk. It may help to think of least privilege by its other name – least authority – as it provides only enough authority for an entity to complete the job at hand. The least privilege model can also help curtail costs and incre...

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CMMC is fraught with uncertainties in today’s environment, but one thing is still sure: CMMC preparations take a lot longer than defense suppliers think. Although timelines have been adjusted somewhat due to the COVID-19 pandemic, giving defense contractors a little more time to become CMMC compliant, recent DOD updates regarding CMMC indicate that the first pilot contract RFPs including CMMC requirements are expected in Q1FY21. For thos...