Guest Speakers will discuss Market Forecasts for Defense, Cyber, Intelligence, and Homeland Security, focusing on areas such as: Convergence of services and product technology companies Role of Private Equity Best practices for successful exit strategies Evaluating emerging technology solution providers as viable acquisition candidates Creating successful opportunities in the cyber, intelligence, homeland security, and defense sectors Current...

National security is continuously being redefined as awareness of the cyberspace domain evolves. Cyber threats and challenges grow every day. Successfully defending our networks requires a team approach. With this in mind, the AFCEA International Cyber Symposium will engage the key players, including the U.S. Government, the International Community, Industry and Academia, to discuss the development of robust cyberspace capabilities and partner...

Information-sharing and partnering are essential for keeping our nation ahead of today’s complex security threats. To facilitate government-industry innovation, AFCEA Intelligence and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) are sponsoring a full-day classified event dedicated to identifying areas of possible collaboration and business opportunity to help enable and accelerate NGA’s strategic vision. The event will be held...

We have entered an era in which voluminous data is available to national decision-makers, warfighters, intelligence professionals and individual citizens. The Intelligence Community has the responsibility to gain access to the right data, analyze it, and produce accurate assessments that help inform both policy-makers and battlefield commanders, while preserving what has made this country great… individual rights. The 33rd annual AFCEA...

The AFCEA/GMU Critical Issues in C4I Symposium brings academia, industry and government together to address important issues in C4I technology and systems R&D. This year the agenda is focused on the following technologies and topics: Software for Secure Systems SCADA System and Technology Issues IEEE/STEM Workforce Shortages Machine Execution of Human Intentions Quantum Computing The New Robotics Ecosystem for Defense and Security ISR Sub-...

This 11th annual symposium serves as a forum for the exchange of ideas among scholars and practitioners of public sector acquisition. It features papers and presentations on recently completed and on-going projects conducted by researchers from universities and institutions from around the world, as well as remarks by a distinguished slate of guest speakers and panelists. We seek a diverse audience of influential attendees from academe, govern...

The Premier Event In Support of the Joint Information Environment (JIE) The Joint Information Environment, under development by the Department of Defense, is at a critical stage of its formation. This centerpiece of the Department’s information sharing and security strategy depends on a matrix of participating organizations to adapt technical solutions and adopt enterprise management in the name of efficiency, security, and reliability....

On May 7, 2014, AFCEA Intelligence and the Naval Intelligence Professionals, in collaboration with the Office of the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Information Dominance, will present the fifth in a series of classified forums examining the state of Information Dominance in the U.S. Navy. If you attended any of the previous sold-out Navy Information Dominance Industry Days, you know these events provide invaluable business intelligence i...

On April 2, 2014, AFCEA Intelligence and the Coast Guard will partner to host a special, one day classified event tailored for members of industry and focusing on Coast Guard Intelligence. With a confirmed speaker line-up including VADM John P. Currier, Vice Commandant of the Coast Guard, VADM Peter V. Neffenger, Deputy Commandant for Operations, and RADM Christopher J. Tomney, Assistant Commandant for Coast Guard Intelligence and Criminal Inv...

The whole world is part of an all-embracing transformation process. So are the NATO Communications and Information (NCI) Agency and AFCEA, two "number one" in communications and information technology. Increasing tasks in the defence and security sector are challenged by decreasing budgets in the western world. However, intensive information exchange on an ethical platform between users and producers of state-of-the-art C4ISR hard and software...