AFCEA International

The Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Information Warfare (N2N6) / Director of Naval Intelligence, in collaboration with AFCEA Intelligence and the Naval Intelligence Professionals, is pleased to host a classified dialog with the private sector on March 18, 2026. 

On March 24-26, 2026, the DoW CIO will host Cyber Workforce Summit 2.0 with support from AFCEA International and the National Defense University. To succeed in today’s environment, the Department of War must continue forging a qualified workforce to win in cyberspace. 

This three-day conference will provide a forum where attendees can expect to:

• Gain a clear and direct understanding of the DoW 8140 framework and what its implementation means for your specific role. DoW CIO representatives will help you master your path to readiness as they share vital  information about the framework, CES, and Cyber Academic Engagement initiatives.
• Gain senior leader perspective by hearing the strategic vision and operational priorities firsthand from senior leaders of USCYBERCOM, DISA, the Joint Staff, and the Service CIOs.
• Leverage new knowledge to enhance your own skills from leading industry and academic partners from their exhibits and presentations of innovative technologies and training methodologies.
• Learn firsthand advanced cyber tactics as current and future leaders from U.S. Service Academies and Senior Military College (SMC) Cyber Institutes battle a live OPFOR in the Cyber Workforce Competition, demonstrating emerging tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs).

Don't miss this unique opportunity to hear directly from DoW, Service leadership and subject matter experts and learn about the path forward toward cyber workforce readiness in support of operations in the information environment. 

Defense operations rely on fast, secure and deployable communication networks that connect command centers, vehicles, ships and sensors across any terrain or domain.

• Explore how hybrid wireless architectures—combining microwave, mmWave, private 4G/5G and mobile mesh networks—deliver fast communication and resilience for modern missions demand.
• Gain insight into field-proven solutions such as auto-aligning terminals, Cells-on-Wheels and Network-in-a-Box systems that ensure rapid setup, mission continuity and secure communications—even in harsh or contested environments.
• Discover how defenseagencies deploy secure, high-availability connectivity in days, not months.
• Learn how rapid-alignment technologies deliver 99.999% reliability across land,air and maritime missions, and how compact, field-proven systems such as Auto-Alignerand Network-in-a-Box enable resilient communications for forward bases, mobileunits and naval platforms.

Today’s CISOs and security leaders in defense, intelligence, and critical infrastructure face mission-critical challenges: ensuring data remains trusted as it moves across domains—especially when networks are bandwidth-constrained, intermittently connected, or actively contested by sophisticated adversaries. File-based malware, cross-domain leaks, and supply-chain compromise are ever-present risks, particularly at the tactical edge where legacy controls often fall short.

Join Glasswall and Owl Cyber Defense for a dynamic, real-world session that explores how innovative zero trust technologies are reshaping the landscape of cross-domain security. Together, these partners offer a "better together" approach.

Glasswall’s Content Disarm and Reconstruction (CDR) technology provides real-time, deterministic file sanitization, rebuilding documents to safe standards and instantaneously neutralizing unknown and sophisticated threats without relying on outdated signature-based detection.

Owl Cyber Defense’s hardware-enforced data diodes and cross-domain solutions deliver proven, one-way data movement, creating a physically enforced barrier that guarantees only sanitized information traverses sensitive boundaries. Learn how organizations are putting these complementary solutions to work—from coalition data sharing in multinational operations to ISR workflows and maritime missions. The session will deliver actionable guidance and field-tested architectures, highlighting how combining Glasswall’s and Owl’s offerings empowers secure, high-assurance data transfer—even in the world’s most contested environments.

You will learn how to:

• Overcome emerging data trust and separation challenges in hostile operational contexts
• Employ zero-trust assurance, AI-driven threat prevention and robust hardware controls without compromising agility
• Adopt architectures that scale from headquarters to the tactical edge, keeping data secure and compliant under fire

The Asymmetric Edge: Global Intelligence in the Age of AI, Autonomy, and Economic Security

AFCEA's Spring Intelligence Symposium returns to the NGA Campus East in Springfield, VA on April 28-29, 2026. This classified TS//SI/TK//NOFORN two-day flagship intelligence event is a forum for Intelligence Community (IC) professionals and an ideal venue for networking, professional development and learning about the nation’s hardest intelligence challenges.

The 2026 Spring Intelligence Symposium agenda is designed to spark candid dialogue at the intersection of national security, emerging technology, and economic power, bringing together decision-makers from across government and industry who rarely convene in the same room, particularly for a classified dialogue.

Featured Panels & Discussions

• The Geopolitical Threat Landscape
  China, Russia, Iran, cyber operations, and the evolving intelligence challenge
• China vs. U.S. Industrial Policy
  Strategic competition, resilience, and long-term advantage
• Economic Security
  Supply chains, sanctions, capital flows, and national power
• Space
  Intelligence, autonomy, and contested domains
• Private Capital & National Security
  Investment, innovation, and mission alignment
• Data & Artificial Intelligence
  From advantage to dependency
• Quantum, Compute, Cryptography & Sensing
  Preparing for the next intelligence inflection point

Additionally, the program will feature the presentation of the Charlie Allen Award for Distinguished Intelligence Service and the 3rd annual award for Excellence in Defense Scientific & Technical Intelligence.

Registration is not available for TechNet Cyber. Check back in Winter 2025.

Adversaries have taken to cyberspace to conduct continuous confrontations. Protecting cyber assets requires more than a single entity, it demands multiple organizations. Join us for this three-day event and interact with IT professionals, hear from experts and develop solutions to ensure technology can connect people to information.

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TechNet Augusta 2026 gives participants the opportunity to examine and explore the intricacies of the cyber domain. With assistance from the U.S. Army Cyber Center of Excellence and industry experts, the conference is designed to open the lines of communication and facilitate networking, education and problem solving. Leaders and operators also discuss procurement challenges the military, government and industry face during a time of uncertain budgets and runaway technology advances.

With assistance from the U.S. Army Cyber Center of Excellence and industry, this three-day conference is designed to open the lines of communication between the military and commercial sector and provide a space where government and industry professionals can discuss issues and share solutions surrounding cyber electromagnetic activities and unified land operations.

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Registration information will become available during Summer 2026.

TechNet Indo-Pacific is co-sponsored by AFCEA International and AFCEA Hawaii. It is the largest event in the Pacific Rim focusing on regional defense issues. Keynote speakers, panel moderators and panelists will discuss defense policies and challenges in the Indo- Pacific region and their relevance to both industry and government. Industry exhibitors will demonstrate products and solutions to meet the services' requirements and needs.

Our Symposium provides a national forum for industry, government and academia to work together to help solve the challenges of cybersecurity, community cyber readiness and national defense.

Registration is not yet available. Check back in the Fall of 2026.

Sea Service leaders today confront profound and rapidly changing threats in a landscape of increasingly complex challenges. Join us and engage with leaders from the Navy, Marine Corps and the Coast Guard as well as industry and academia experts in this extraordinary opportunity to explore the depths of the unique issues they confront. Engage in discussions, network with peers and be a part of devising the needed solutions to enhance operational capabilities that overcome evolving threats. Gain knowledge and forge connections while discovering the latest platforms, cutting-edge technologies and advanced capabilities crucial to supporting maritime operations.

The harnessing of the right cyber power is more important than ever in a domain deluged by persistent attacks and simultaneous sophisticated campaigns that threaten global political, economic and security interests. A flagship event, AFCEA’s TechNet Cyber serves as a center of gravity for a whole-of-government effort to bring together the policy, strategic architecture, operations and C2— along with the joint capabilities—needed to meet the global security challenges and successfully operate in a digital environment. Join us in Baltimore and be a part of the conversation led by U.S. Cyber Command, DISA, the DoW CIO, and numerous industry and academia partners to deliver solutions for this enduring, no-fail mission.