Digital transformation, like military innovation, often comes with the perception of a monumental technological leap attached to a billion-dollar price tag. All of these billion-dollar costs are point solutions to enhance our greatest warfighting capability: Marines, Sailors, Airmen, & Soldiers. Making our individual warfighters more capable improves combat readiness more than any of the latest weapons systems—which ironically rely...

Join AFCEA DC on May 21 for AI+ML: The Virtual Experience. This free webinar will feature a keynote address by Lt. Gen. Shanahan, followed by three lightning round fireside chats as a preview to our AI+ML Summit on September 1, 2020.

Law Enforcement and Public Safety Technology Forum - Virtual Event Preview AFCEA Bethesda will be hosting a virtual preview event for the Law Enforcement and Public Safety Technology Forum, which has been moved from late May to July 29 and 30th. The virtual preview event will be held at 8:00am on Wednesday, May 20, the original date of the LEAPS Technology Forum. This hour-long free event will offer a preview of the live event content. The li...

To protect the health and safety of attendees, this event has been moved to online-only due to COVID-19 concerns. For well over a decade, the AFCEA/GMU Critical Issues in C4I Symposium has connected academia, industry and government annually to address important issues in technology and systems research and development. The audience is typically more than 70% government/military featuring decision makers at all levels looking to advance their...

AFCEA Bethesda is continuing to provide access to our events virtually. The Women in Leadership Professional Development Event will now be a virtual panel of government leaders on the forefront of the COVID-19 response. Join us on May 12th as our panel of female federal leaders in STEM-focused roles discuss career progression, challenges, and how they are adapting their leadership skills during the COVID-19 pandemic. Potential Discussion Topic...

To protect the health and safety of attendees, this event has been postponed due to COVID-19 concerns. Who: Leadership of Homeland Security, FBI, TSA, City of Atlanta, and others What: Provide insight to business opportunities with Homeland Security. When: TBA Where: GT Global Learning Center, 800 Spring Street NW, Atlanta, GA 30308 Agenda: TBD

The IT Landscape has changed and battles for network and information dominance are being played out in a cyberspace. We must be able to identify, protect, detect, respond and recover from new threats quickly and accurately to ensure our networks and data continue to provide access and value. In this session, we will discuss emerging trends in automated security incident response and how security automation can be used to gather information, ma...

This session will provide a high level overview on how to perform a proper deployment for a cloud infrastructure environment and how to apply cybersecurity standards to reduce the attack surface and prevent unauthorized access to the host server from the Guest VM. Topics that will be covered: Virtualization Consideration, Network Segmentation (physical, virtual and private), Guest VM isolation, How to Handle Virtual Host Tools for Guest VM, Pa...

To protect the health and safety of attendees, this event has been moved to online-only due to COVID-19 concerns. NOW VIRTUAL! The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) rolls out later this year, which will affect both homeland security and the defense industrial base. The certification schema challenges industry with many issues, both known and unknown. This symposium unpacks the model to aid industry in understanding how their co...

To protect the health and safety of attendees, this event has been moved to online-only due to COVID-19 concerns. AFCEA Bethesda is continuing to provide access to our events virtually. We have transitioned our Spring Fling Networking Event into a FREE networking webinar where we truly are Xperiencing the Future. We are excited to announce our first ever Young AFCEA Bethesda Virtual Spring Nexus Event on April 22, 2020! To have that same Sprin...