The AFCEA Emerging Professionals in the Intelligence Community (EPIC) committee is organizing an academic outreach event on October 28, 2021 from 6 to 7:30pm EDT. This event will be a virtual panel of EPIC members answering questions submitted at registration by attending participants. Following a 30-45 minute period of answering these questions, panelists and other EPIC attendees will manage breakout rooms focused on specific schools and inte...

The rapid adoption of cloud technologies for capabilities envisioned by programs such as Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) to support machine learning, IoT and ISR provides new opportunities for defense organizations to achieve and maintain C5ISR overmatch — as long as networks can reliably deliver those benefits at the tactical network edge. Modern tactical networks must: Be deployable in reduced size, weight, and power ...

Services MAC and Polaris: Prepping, Teaming and Bidding Are you ready for the decade’s two biggest governmentwide vehicles for small businesses? Polaris and Services MAC are coming. Polaris could be the go-to vehicle for billions in IT services small business task orders, and Services MAC is likely to be the number one source of federal professional services dollars for small businesses. Whether you are SDVOSB, WOSB, HUBzone, 8(a) or jus...

While the term “zero trust" is overused in security product marketing, Zero Trust is very important to the future of our nation's cybersecurity. The Department of Defense (DoD) released its own Zero Trust architecture guidance and there are many additional relevant models available to federal customers. Last May, President Biden issued an Executive Order (EO) which required agencies to provide updates on their plans to implement Zero Tru...

For the DoD, modernization of networks and infrastructure is vital to supporting the soldier, sailor, airman and Marine. One challenge defense agencies must grapple with is what tools are available to obtain, or procure, modern network services. One such procurement tool is the Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) contract, which helps defense agencies balance the urgency of contract transition with the complexity of strategic modernizati...

Whether you're new to AFCEA or a longtime member, attend from your desktop to learn how to increase your footprint in the federal space; use AFCEA's brand to enhance your visibility; leverage AFCEA's network of global security and defense professional across DOD and civilian agencies; participate via your local chapter or on national-level committees; and receive discounts on advertising, event registration, sponsorship and exhibits.

Real-time situational awareness cross correlates everything from real-world mission to supply chain management and network administration. Technology is finally at a point where we can combine all these datasets to affect real-time decision making. Regardless of the use case, real-time situational awareness can be operationalized by unifying signals with datasets in a flexible, yet secure dashboard. Elastic has years of experience providing th...

A MEMBER-ONLY event for jobseekers, the AFCEA Virtual Career Fair connects you with employers seeking to hire top talent. The AFCEA Virtual Career Fair easily connects you in real time with employers from the comfort of your home or office via desktop, laptop, tablet, or smartphone. Taking place completely online, the virtual career fair allows you to: Explore career opportunities available to you in all areas of the C5ISR/global security fiel...

Attend this webinar to learn: The opportunities and challenges for defense networks posed by 5G and cloud-based service delivery Why network and cybersecurity automation and orchestration is needed How to automate your defense strategic and operative networks The benefits of this automation for the defense community to gain a leadership advantage from the digitalization of their operations and an increased agility of their C5ISR systems Defens...

Attend this webinar to learn: The opportunities and challenges for defence networks posed by 5G and cloud-based service delivery Why network and cyber-security automation and orchestration is needed How to automate your defense strategic and operative networks The benefits of this automation for the defense community to gain a leadership advantage from the digitalization of thier operations and an increased agility of their C5ISR systems, defe...