AFCEA International’s Post

#NASWA President & CEO Scott B. Sanders testified in front of Congress this morning on the reorganization of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) on behalf of our member states. In his testimony, he encouraged Congress to strengthen the management, delivery, and evaluation of WIOA services through: ✅ Flexibility for states ✅ Staffing flexibility ✅ Stronger alignment of workforce programs with postsecondary education ✅ Improved performance measurement and data-driven strategies. Replay ➡️ https://lnkd.in/d3FaKNHy

Integrated Deterrence, AI/ML Enabled #MDO Multinational Mission Command, Mission Partner Integration & Interoperability, Transnational Secure Supply Chains, Zerto Trust. #PostQuantum, #AI/ML #GenAI for Mission Impact. As alliance partners, how do we build off of strong Digital Cores to accelerate both joint and multinational solutions to rapidly strengthen collective deterrence and response? How do we orchestrate Digital for Defense for Joint and for Multinational effect when time is of the essence? How do we innovate together to create strategic advantage? Over the past few weeks, my teammates from Accenture's Global Defense Council have been engaging and listening to defense leaders, industry alliance partners, and SMEs from across FVEYS, AUKUS, NATO and INDOPAC on these other topics, diving deep into the challenges, potential, and urgency to drive forward now. Hear what Sir Chris Harper, (UK) Lt Gen Stuart (Stu) B. have to say. Join the Conversation. #DSEI2023 #DisruptiveTechforDefense #AUSA2023 #AUSKUS Mark Smith Lauren C. Matthew Gollings Ahmed Hassan Bill Marion James Roddis Thomas Copinger-Symes Nina Cope CB Dawn Meyerriecks Rachel Singleton Mike Rouleau Timo Levo Andy StartArmin Fleischmann Paul Kealey Curtis "Mike" Scaparrotti Janne Jaakkola Karri-Tuomas Salli Michael Jager Maynard Williams Glenn McCartan Bryan Rich Simon Thacker Adrian Holt MBA, CEng Timothy Wright COL Michael Cullinane John Burnham Portia Crowe, Ph.D. Michael Rothwell AM CSC GAICD Sally Wareham Matt Strohmeyer Margaret Palmieri Bill Streilein Mart Noorma Pierre Dupont George Franz Tom Greiner Katie Taffler

A recording of my #chiir2024 keynote (although sadly missing my opening personal anecdote about my phd and first #sigir2007 experience) is now online. This may add some context to my slides posted before. https://lnkd.in/e-MTXpDC

🌟 Exciting Update! 🌟 Vincent Vuillard, our CEO at FutureWork Studio, is set to share the stage with Europe's leading minds at the Paris Defence & Strategy Forum (PDSM2024) on March 13 and 14, 2024, at the École Militaire in Paris. This event, themed Europe at the Crossroads, brings together leading global experts and decision makers to discuss Europe’s future in defence and strategy. Vincent will be speaking on a panel discussion titled "The War for Talent: Reconciling Supply and Demand," exploring innovative strategies to bridge the talent gap in a landscape marked by rapid technological advancement and shifting security paradigms, alongside: Laurence Lafont Vice President Strategic Industries EMEA from Google André Loesekrug-Pietri⚡️ President of the Joint European Disruptive Initiative Paul O'Neill Senior Research Fellow from the Royal United Services Institute Wouter Trumpie Chief Architect Global Public Sector from Salesforce. Vincent will share how our clients in Europe and Australasia are transforming the way they manage talent by unlocking their employees' collective intelligence through Hive, showcasing practical examples of talent management innovation. This promises to be two days of insightful discussions, round tables, workshops, and strategic game simulations at this inaugural edition, where French and international civil and military experts converge to address the challenges and opportunities at Europe’s crossroads. Stay connected for highlights from Vincent and insights into how we’re shaping the future of work and strategy. #PDSF2024 #DefenceStrategy #TalentManagement #Innovation

MEGA ANNOUNCEMENT: the DoD Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office and Tradewinds Team are hosting the FIRST DoD CDAO SBIR Tech Expo, 22-26 April! The objective of this COMPLETELY #virtual event is to help Vendors get their awesome #data-and #AI-centric solutions to all corners of the Government and help transition from prototype to fielded product. This event will support up to 400 vendor presentations, and ANYONE with a .mil or .gov Email can sign up to watch and interact! INDUSTRY: Have you completed a project and can’t figure out how to reach new customers in DoD? Sign up for this event. Have you completed a Phase 1 #SBIR and need a sponsor for your Phase 2 follow-on proposal? Sign up for this event! Did you win a “selected but unfunded” D2P2 and are trying to find someone to pick up the tab? SIGN UP FOR THIS EVENT! Are you a non-traditional defense contractor who has done some work already? Or maybe you just want to learn how to simplify your post-award transition with a flexible contract opportunity in Tradewinds? SIGN. UP. TO. PRESENT! GOVERNMENT: Dont recreate the wheel with a new SBIR request- get exposure to projects that have ALREADY been started. Connect with Industry and their Mission sponsors to get some of that sweet sweet synergy! Don’t have all week to spend at a conference? No problem, only sign up for sessions that look interesting to you and watch them from your desk! I will be doing a deep-dive series of blog posts on this intricacies of this event over the coming days. Please share this far and wide! Let’s get #DoDSBIRExpo trending! Government Link: https://lnkd.in/gH5i8AVW Industry Link: https://lnkd.in/gDhfyBZ3 NOTE- you must complete this form AND submit a one-page summary of your project prior to the April 3 deadline to present #machinelearning #datascience #digitaltransformation Stephanie Wilson | Bonnie Evangelista | AFWERX | NavalX | Army SBIR|STTR Program | DoD SBIR STTR Program Office | Department of the Air Force Chief Data and AI Office | Air Force Test Center | U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command (ATEC) | Navy SBIR/STTR Transition Program (Navy STP) | Department of the Navy Office of Small Business Programs | Air Force Research Laboratory | Air Force Materiel Command | Marine Corps Systems Command | United States Air Force | UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY | US Army | U.S. Department of State | National Security Agency | Department of Defense Office of Small Business Programs | Central Intelligence Agency | Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) | Tammer Barkouki | Kathy Reid | The Outpost | Dave Harden | Russell Long | Long Capture | SBIR Advisors Inc. | Miji McConnell | John Ferry | Brian Morrison | Tesseract AF | Mobilize VISION | Jade Baranski | SightLine Ventures Inc. |

Looking forward to these important conversations in the domain of Internet Governance.

Due to overwhelming response, I wanted to clarify a bunch of common questions and make an announcement about the Department of Defense SBIR Tech Expo: 1. The big addition/change up front: We're going to be hosting a #SBIR 101 + #OTA 101 sessions during one of the days of the event, which reduces our total presentation capacity from 400 to 320 [GET YOUR REGISTRATIONS IN EARLY!]. These 101 sessions will be open to ALL industry and government. Gov folks you do not need to submit a different registration, the current one will work. Industry folks- if you're interested in attending, complete the link at the form below! 2. General eligibility: It's called the "DoD SBIR Tech Expo" but it is open to completed/in-progress data- and ai-related SBIR projects, STTR projects, and projects completed by Non-Traditional Contractor OTAs. The industry form reflects this but we've received feedback that the wording is a bit confusing. 3. Multi-awardees: You can submit a presentation for up to THREE different projects. Each one of the presentations will be given their own 30 minute time slot across the days of the event, not necessarily on the same day and session. 4. Awardable/Not funded or Phase 1 verification: For projects that were A/NF, put the information of the customer and TPOCs that you were planning to work with on your submission. For completed Phase 1s without a customer, use DoDSBIRExpoHotline@groups.af.mil as your TPOC and forward the latest notification you received about the acceptance of your project/milestones directly to this email address. SBIR 101 + OTA 101 Industry Registration Link https://lnkd.in/gXufGbZr #DoDSBIRExpo #data #ai #SBIR #OTA #smallbusiness #innovation #DoD #machinelearning #datascience #digitalengineering AFWERX | Army SBIR|STTR Program | Department of Navy SBIR/STTR Programs | DoD SBIR STTR Program Office

It has been a big few weeks in the defense tech ecosystem! As we wrap up an incredible week of activity and connection from the RSA Conference where a number of significant announcements were made, to United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF)'s #GEOINT Symposium to USSOCOM's always anticipated #SOFWEEK, to the Special Competitive Studies Project - SCSP's phenomenal #AI Expo and all of the Annual General Meetings in between (h/t Playground Global for a great one this week, featuring recent SVDG special guests Chris Miller and Steve Blank!) we want to take a moment to highlight a few big wins and celebrate the momentum that is so palpable. In a beautiful way, there are too many to list (given character limits!) in a single post so we'll do a few posts over the next few hours. The BLUF? Defense Tech activity of all sorts is heating up. Andreessen Horowitz raised $600M for #AmericanDynamism. Congress appropriated a massive increase of almost $2B dollars to the the combined DOD #innovation arms. Anduril Industries and General Atomics beat out a handful of well-positioned Primes on the #CCA down-select. xAI raised $6B to build a LLM GigaDataCenter and race towards “Real World AI Agents.” The U.S. Department of Homeland Security stood up a new AI Safety advisory board, tapping some of the foremost experts from the tech sector. The US Navy awarded contracts to a handful of VC-backed companies for its Standard Missile Program.  The Australian government ‘picked a winner’ and made a big bet on a VC-backed US #quantumcomputing startup. Funding, entrepreneurship, DOD customer engagement, and political support for the NatSec Emerging Tech community has never been higher. Stay tuned for our thoughts on some of the past few weeks' highlights in subsequent posts and get ready for our comprehensive ecosystem analysis for 2024, in our soon-to-be-released, 2nd annual eedition of the SVDG #NatSec100 Report! Oh, we almost forgot…the word “Gundo” entered the NatSec lexicon… for better or worse…

🚀 Join Us at the Cognitive Space Operations (COGSPO) Event! 🚀 Are you ready to dive into the future of space operations? 🌌✨ What: A gathering of over 300 military, government civilian, and industry professionals to explore the impact of AI/ML technologies on cognitive processes, focusing on sustained space maneuver. The COGSPO Reverse Industry Day, hosted by USSPACECOM and SSC, aims to improve decision-making and situational awareness for the future force. 🌐🤖 Key Highlights: 🔹 AI/ML in Cognitive Processes: Discover how cutting-edge technologies will engage in cognitive processes and decision-making. 🔹 Sustained Space Maneuver: Emphasis on how COGSPO will enable joint forces through accelerated decision cycles and enhanced situational awareness. 🔹 Collaborative Discussions: Engage with experts across government and industry to assess broad interest and leverage COGSPO as a force multiplier. 🔹 Strategic Insights: Leadership across sectors will gain a clearer understanding of COGSPO’s definition, vision, and execution needed to improve space operations and support National Security. Details: 📅 When: June 25, 9am - June 26, 5pm EDT 📍 Where: 820 SAS Campus Drive, Cary, NC 27513, United States 👉 Register now:https://lnkd.in/gyAds89S Don’t miss this incredible opportunity to be at the forefront of space innovation and collaborate with top minds in the field. See you there! 🚀🛰️ #COGSPO #SpaceOperations #SSCReverseIndustryDay

Australian defence enterprises need to get involved in this.