Big Data is exponential growth of data being collected today. Last year IBM reported that 2.5 exabytes of data was being created on a daily basis. As massive amounts of information become more readily available, the government has the opportunity to transform this data into intelligence, enabling agencies to make better decisions and meet their mission objectives. In today’s budget-constrained environment, a Big Data strategy can help go...

As government moves to a more mobile workforce, demand for consistent and standards-driven application development and deployment has become even more critical – especially in an environment of shrinking budgets. It is important to develop cost-effective applications that are easily extensible for use on mobile devices, with the ability to be built once and tweaked for use across the enterprise. Agencies and the public both need to creat...

AFCEA Bethesda’s Sixth Health IT Day is expected to bring together more than 700 senior-executives and IT professionals from across industry and federal agencies such as the Department of Health and Human Services, the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense. The goals of the event are to foster better...

This August, the Administration’s National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) reached another milestone in the effort to create a common identity infrastructure for the Internet. A new pilot program from the US Postal Service promises a time when citizens will soon be able to access everything from federal health benefits to student loan information using a single ID and password. The project will create a cloud-servic...

Due to the government shutdown, the October 16 breakfast has been rescheduled for November 7. If you’ve already registered for the October breakfast your registration will be transferred. This August, the Administration’s National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) reached another milestone in the effort to create a common identity infrastructure for the Internet. A new pilot program from the US Postal Service pr...

Please join us for AFCEA Bethesda's monthly breakfast to be held September 25, 2013 at the Bethesda North Marriott and conference center.

Join AFCEA Bethesda on August 8, 2013 for the Mobility Technology Symposium, a half-day education and training event, which will go beyond the business case for mobility and look at how agencies are developing and implementing emerging mobile technology to deliver the mission. The demand for mobility is all around us. With lowered budgets and new technologies, the need to do more with less comes at an opportune time. The trends we see today wi...

Join Young AFCEA Bethesda for our 6th Annual Senior Government Executive Dinner. The evening provides a venue for government senior executives to lead discussion with attendees on the latest topics in government IT. Industry leaders will serve as moderators during the discussion. Topic areas include: Cyber Security (continuous monitoring/evolution of threats/identity management/data security/privacy) Information Sharing (open government/social...

MAGIC 2013 builds on the success of last year’s conference, providing a one-of-a-kind venue where leaders from the major GWACs and MACS, GSA and VA Schedules, senior government procurement executives and contracting officers join industry partners to share their insights, plans and best practices to help agencies access the technologies they need to succeed. www.magicgov.org. WHAT YOU WILL HEAR Updates on some of the most popular multipl...

Join us on June 28 at The Golf Club at Lansdowne for AFCEA Bethesda’s 9th Annual Charity Golf Tournament — a round to support our nation’s service members. The event will bring together 150 golfers and 300+ attendees for a tournament, as well as a reception featuring a live band, raffle, silent auction, dinner and awards program. All proceeds will benefit the Salute Military Golf Association (SMGA), which is dedicated to empo...