The Mastering Business Development® Workshop is an educational and professional development program which focuses on the thinking, process and discipline required for professional Business Development. This 2-day workshop fosters participants’ understanding of the core competencies required for success in the Business Development role.Business Development is primarily a relationship development and intelligence gathering process. Par...

Join us on November 29 to hear from MG Patrick M. Higgins, USA, Director, Joint Integrated Air and Missile Defense Organization, J8.

Key Benefits of Attending Learn firsthand about available business opportunities with government and leading large businesses Exchange information and ideas directly with senior leaders of government and small business Meet government decision makers who set policies and conduct acquisitions Small businesses: Discuss opportunities with DoD and Large Businesses Why Huntsville? Technology, space, and defense industries have a major presence here...

The Physics-Based Modeling in Design & Development for U.S. Defense Conference is the first of its kind and is sponsored by the National Defense Industrial Association’s Systems Engineering Division, and is being supported by the Assistant Secretary of Defense, Research & Engineering, High Performance Computing Modernization Program. BackgroundAcquisition of defense systems now takes far longer than ever before, partly due to inc...

The National Defense Industrial Association Systems Engineering Division is pleased to announce the 11th Annual CMMI® (Capability Maturity Model Integration) Technology Conference & User Group. The purpose of the conference is to exchange ideas, concepts and lessons learned concerning the continuing evolution, adoption and use of the CMMI® and its associated appraisal (assessment and evaluation) methods. This conference brings toge...

The primary purpose of our quarterly meetings is to engage in local dialogues about how we can increase the quality of STEM education; the quantity of STEM educated graduates that are eligible for employment in the Aerospace and Defense(A&D) industries; and the amount and effectiveness of engagement by A&D employers, working in partnership with others in their communities. Previous meetings have demonstrated the productiveness of bring...

The Navy-Industry International Dialogue (NIID) provides a Navy-Industry-Attaché-Foreign Procurement Group forum to address issues involving security cooperation and sea service concepts and programs that help drive future capabilities for international maritime partnerships. This NIID will focus on Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) management and capabilities. The USN is unique among the US services in its acquisition of UAS; deploying sys...

The NDIA C4ISR Division is sponsoring a unique workshop to help DoD acquisition personnel build awareness of, and experience in person, some of the methods and principles of iterative, agile development methods. Such methods have been in limited use in the DoD for almost 10 years, but recent changes in direction in guidance for IT system acquisition are raising awareness of the potential for different acquisition and development methods. To he...

This one day industry and government bilateral conference was designed to focus on ways in which the two countries defense and security industries can work more closely togehter to accomplish common goals by illuminating those technological and programmatic areas which will provide U.S. and DoD and Finland's MoD officials have identified as needed now. Knowledge of those areas will provide U.S. and Finish companies witha point of departure fro...

23rd Annual International IPM Conference Co-sponsored by: NDIA, PMI EVM Cop, SCEA Exhibits, Sponsorships and Tools Track