NDIA's Manufacturing Division will hold their quarterly meeting on June 4-5, 2014 at Holland & Knight, LLP in Washington, D.C.

LID Breakfast Series Featuring Senator Kelly Ayotte

Over the past year there have been a number of issues between DCAA auditors and small business. A joint task force, which includes members of NDIA, has been meeting regularly with DCAA to discuss these issues. Come join us to hear about the progress made with these issues directly from DCAA. In addition, this seminar will help attendees understand the mission and purpose of the DCAA and DCMA, as well as provide insight into how companies can a...

AGILE IN GOVERNMENT Sharing Innovative Approaches & Best Practices Scaling, Contracting, Governance, Measurement Another event in the series presented by ADAPT. The purposes of this event are: to foster better understanding of how agile software development methods are providing the basis for incremental and modular acquisition across Government, to discuss the changing technology of modern information-intensive businesses and the implicat...

In March, the House and Senate Armed Services Committees wrote a letter to NDIA requesting our input to their acquisition reform efforts of the coming years. Industry, the Pentagon, and the Congress all have reached consensus that reform is not just desirable, it is essential heading into a period of budget austerity. In order to properly respond to the Committees' request for input, NDIA needs the views and input of our members. This event wi...

LID Breakfast Series Featuring Rep. Rob Wittman

The Canadian, Australian, British and American defence industries have a shared history of business cooperation and investment that dates back decades and continues today. All sides have prospered from their past and ongoing business relationships. With defence budgets in North America and Europe under severe pressure, there is ever greater need for closer collaboration between the defence and security industries of the four allied nations, as...

Defense Intelligence Information Enterprise (DI2E)Plugfest Part of the DI2E Governance Teams Week The DI2E Plugfest is the annual demonstration of advancements in the DI2E. The purpose is to provide a environment of networked, interoperable and reusable components, the Plugfest eXchange, where vendors are able to deploy and show their tools to provide flexible, agile and data-driven capabilities to Warfighters. UPDATE by the Numbers Number of...

2014 SOFIC (Special Operations Forces Industry Conference) will be held May 20–22, 2014 at the Tampa Convention Center, Tampa, FL. This year’s conference theme, “Strengthening the Global SOF Network,” will provide a forum for military, government, academia, and industry stakeholders to network and discuss current and future challenges and how to best support our Special Operations Forces (SOF) around the globe. USSOCOM...

The NDIA Systems Security Engineering (SSE) Committee is hosting a Program Protection Planning (PPP) Summit/Workshop May 19 - 22 in McLean, VA. Through collaborative efforts between industry and government, we are working to develop an integrated and holistic approach to program protection to balance and manage the risks in a way that is cost affordable and commensurate with the level of criticality. Many challenges exist as we work to integra...