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INFOPAC 2024 (formerly the Pac...
INFOPAC 2024 (formerly the Pacific IO & EW Symposium)
October 22 - 23, 2024
Alohilani Resort Waikiki
Honolulu, HI
Event Manager:House Account davej@fbcinc.com
INFOPAC 2024 (formerly the Pacific IO & EW Symposium) will take place in Honolulu, HI from October 22-25, 2024 (exhibits days will be October 22 and 23). This annual event is USINDOPACOM's only professional development, international engagement, and operational problem-solving event focused on the Information Related Capabilities that comprise Joint IO. USINDOPACOM Personnel, Service Component Commands, allied partners, and industry contractors are encouraged to participate in this official event. With the heightened activity in the region, we are looking forward to collaboration, idea sharing, and improving USINDOPACOM's ability to operate more effectively in support of a Free and Open Indo-Pacific. Industry Exhibits will take place in conjunction with the unclassified segment of the conference at the Alohilani Hotel. Industry partners and academic institutions are invited to display programs, products, technology and services of interest to USINDOPACOM. Registration is required. Overview:The purpose of the symposium is to bring together government, military, industry, academia, small business, and other stakeholders for discussions on the operational challenges facing the practitioners of these IRCs, and to explore possible technological and tactics/procedural solutions. To stimulate wider interest and inquiry into these issues, the symposium and related activities and events will be open to registration by government, industry and academia representatives without regard to their AOC membership status (both AOC Members and non-members may register) except that access of foreign and any other persons may be restricted as necessary in accordance with applicable laws and regulations. The agenda will focus on the role of information operations in maintaining the conditions for continued peace and stability within the region and will feature presentations and panels from senior U.S. Department of Defense leaders. The 2024 ANTICIPATED format will be as follows:
- October 21- Virtual briefings will be conducted on Monday with an invite only social that evening for visiting allied and partner military, meet and greet social sponsors, and INDOPACOM J39 and Service Component IO and EW personnel.
- October 22 & 23 - Unclassified plenaries/briefings and keynote sessions will take place in-person at the Alohilani in conjunction with exhibits. An evening reception follows at the end of the first day in the exhibit area.
- October 24 & 25 - CLASSIFIED plenary sessions begin with the morning session set at S/REL TO USA, DEU, FRA, JPN, KOR, AND FVEY. That afternoon and the following day are set at SECRET.
Past Attendance:
The 2023 symposium hit capacity with over 400 in-person attendees, including 90+ Allied and partner military officers from 15 other countries. This was the first year that Indonesia attended and presented. Participating nations included: United States, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Indonesia, Japan, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, and the United Kingdom. The J39 held the highest number of bilateral engagements in the history of the symposia series. Altogether between the UNCLAS and S/REL plenary sessions there were over 40 unique sessions/presentations.
DoD and other government agencies in attendance included USINDOPACOM (including PACAF, USARPAC, MARFORPAC), USSOCOM (including SOCPAC, USASOC, ), USSTRATCOM, USCYBERCOM, USMC, The Joint Staff, OSD, ANG, USSPACECOM, NSA, Department of State, Office of Naval Research, NDU, Naval Postgraduate School, and GSA to name a few.
INFOPAC 2024 Optional Lunches
INFOPAC 2024 Optional Lunches
October 22 - 23, 2024
Alohilani Resort Waikiki
Honolulu, HI
Event Manager:David Powell
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NOAA IT Security & Privacy Conference
NOAA IT Security & Privacy Conference
October 23, 2024
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Event Manager:Bob Jeffers bj1@fbcinc.com
A recent World Economic Forum report warned that the three top global risks to society, by likelihood, are:
- Extreme Weather Events
- Natural Disasters
- Cyber Attacks
No US cybersecurity division deals with this tricky trifecta daily, except for the exceptional team at NOAA. Covering from sea to space, NOAA provides minute-to-minute data about the conditions of our oceans, our major waterways and our atmosphere. And to do it without any interruptions, they rely heavily on a secure and resilient global network infrastructure.
So that NOAA's Cybersecurity Division is prepared for every worst-case digital scenario, their Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) hosts an annual NOAA IT Security Conference. This year's event includes briefings from various NOAA components and industry leaders. There will be an impressive speaker lineup and a vendor meet and greet.
Last year's popular event boasted 300 attendees, the vast majority of whom met with vendors during the multiple conference breaks (including the dedicated time for industry meet and greet).
Wyoming Virtual Cybersecurity Conference
Wyoming Virtual Cybersecurity Conference
October 23, 2024
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Event Manager:Bob Jeffers
Join CyberWyoming for the Virtual Wyoming Cybersecurity Conference! This is a unique opportunity to meet local and national members in Wyoming. The agenda will include topics on information technology, cybersecurity, workforce development, education, election security and much more!
Expected Number of Attendees: 200
All relevant companies and technologies are invited to exhibit or sponsor the event.
- Cybersecurity
- Information Technology
- Threat Intelligence
- Information Sharing
- Workforce Development
- Education
About CyberWyoming:
CyberWyoming is a nonprofit affiliate of CyberUSA and administrator of the Made Safe in Wyoming program, which motivates and empowers business owners to meet best practices in cybersecurity. CyberWyoming’s vision is to build a community of non-technical leaders and mentors in Wyoming to carry forward cybersecurity awareness and increase business resilience in Wyoming and, as a result, lead and be an active participant in the Wyoming CAN (Cybersecurity Action Network) committee.
About the CyberWyoming Alliance:
The CyberWyoming Alliance is a 501c3 nonprofit that works with local communities to increase cyber awareness and education.
The CyberWyoming Alliance (a.k.a. the CW Alliance) is organized exclusively to promote alliances in local communities to share cybersecurity threat information and advocate for the cyber security societal benefit and welfare of Wyoming citizens, senior citizens, students and the business and nonprofit communities that surround them.
The CyberWyoming Alliance supports cyber security education, awareness, and outreach programs for Wyoming communities.
The specific objectives and purpose of this organization include:
- Applying for grant opportunities to fund cyber security education, awareness and outreach programs.
- Collaborating with local community organizations to tailor outreach programs to specific target markets like senior citizens, students, business and nonprofit communities, small municipalities, and local citizens.
- Creating a network for cyber security information sharing in local communities and disseminating threat an
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DISA J6 Cyber Awareness Forum
DISA J6 Cyber Awareness Forum
October 24, 2024
Pentagon Library Conference Center (PLCC)
Washington, DC
Event Manager:Alec Munns alec@fbcinc.com
Calling all technology providers!
DISA J6 is hosting their Cyber Awareness Forum with an in-person opportunity for industry to present and network with the top DISA J6 cybersecurity gate keepers.
The theme for this event will be determined soon, but each forum is designed to help DISA J6 examine the agencies' cybersecurity readiness, learn better security practices, complete trainings, and look for new technologies to protect their cyberspace.
Participation in this event is a must if you can help DISA J6 with any of the following:
- Modernize the technical infrastructure that supports their 38,000 customers in the National Capital Region?
- Advance their full range of IT equipment, services, solutions and customer support for the Office of the Secretary of Defense?
- Standardize their servers?
- Migrate the Pentagon's networks to the joint regional security stacks?
About DISA J6
DISA J6 provides IT and secure communications services across the DOD and military service branches. It is in charge of the funding and personnel that offer most of the IT services for the Pentagon and other DOD offices inside the National Capital Region, and has superior mission- and budget-authority.
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Kennedy Space Center Industry Day
Kennedy Space Center Industry Day
October 25, 2024
The Astronauts Memorial Foundation, Bldg M6-306
Kennedy Space Center, FL
Event Manager:Bob Jeffers bj1@fbcinc.com
FBC is proud to be conducting an Industry Day at Kennedy Space Center in association with the 3rd Annual SmallSat Education Conference at Kennedy Space Center scheduled for Oct. 26-27, 2024. The Industry Day will be held prior to the SmallSat Conference in the AMF Center for Space Education Building at Kennedy Space Center. The Industry Day is scheduled to take place from 10am - 2pm before the evening banquet taking place on Friday night, 10/25/24. All Kennedy Space Center employees and contractors will be invited to attend the Industry Day as well as those coming in for the SmallSat Conference. About Kennedy Space Center from the NASA Strategic Plan - Kennedy Space Center: Strategic Goal 3: Catalyze Economic Growth and Drive Innovation to Address National Challenges. KSC supports research, development, testing, and demonstration of advanced flight and surface systems and transformational technologies to advance exploration systems, human and cargo landers, and deep space systems. KSC also supports environmental control and life support systems technology development, habitation space systems development, and operations and in-situ resource utilization. KSC works with commercial industry to encourage new opportunities and develop partnership agreements that further commercial investment to enhance the multi-user spaceport, enable innovation, and increase diverse access to space. KSC supports technology maturation projects within NASA’s GCD Program. KSC also participates in NASA’s CIF, which supports emerging technologies and creative initiatives led by NASA scientists and engineers. Additionally, the KSC Technology Transfer Office ensures that innovations developed for aeronautics and space are made more broadly available to the public. Strategic Goal 4: Enhance Capabilities and Operations to Catalyze Current and Future Mission Success. KSC collaborates with partners, including other Centers and external entities, to advance and share technology, promote STEM learning, and engage with the public regarding NASA’s Mission. KSC safely and strategically optimizes its diverse workforce and provides innovative, cost-effective, and efficient Center services to support the Agency’s Mission. KSC continually evaluates and aligns its highly-valued people and programmatic and institutional capabilities to implement rigorous and innovative safety, facility and systems engineering and integration, IT, and other services to ensure reliable and quality products.
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NIH Tech Day
NIH Tech Day
November 20, 2024
NIH Campus, Bethesda, MD-Building 10 FAES Terrace
Bethesda, MD
Event Manager:Bob Jeffers bj1@fbcinc.com
The nation's medical research agency - the National Institutes of Health (NIH) - has a massive campus running cutting edge research and development, supported heavily by advanced technology and innovation. With this comes a unique audience of scientists and personnel with special applications. Reach them face-to-face at NIH Tech Day! All personnel on the NIH campus receive FBC's wide-reaching promotions for this exciting event. Now's the time to show them that your product or service is what they've been missing.
NIH Mission and Goals:
NIH’s mission is to seek fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and to apply that knowledge to enhance health, lengthen life and reduce illness and disability. To carry out this mission, NIH’s goals are: to foster fundamental creative discoveries, innovative research strategies and their applications as a basis for ultimately protecting and improving health; to develop, maintain and renew scientific human and physical resources that will ensure the nation’s capability to prevent disease; to expand the knowledge base in medical science and associated sciences in order to enhance the nation’s economic well-being and ensure a continued high return on the public investment in research; and to exemplify and promote the highest level of scientific integrity, public accountability and social responsibility in the conduct of science. Organization: NIH is an operating division of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), responsible for helping the Department realize its strategic goal of advancing scientific knowledge and innovation. To accomplish this, NIH consists of 27 Institutes and Centers (ICs), along with Program Offices, which collectively are referred to as ICOs. These ICOs have individual strategic plans and specific research agendas, which are aligned with the legislative mandates that are often related to specific diseases or body systems. To support these missions, most of NIH’s ICOs receive a specific appropriation from Congress, and support research and research training through extramural funding awarded to universities, academic health centers and other research institutions. Most also conduct research and research training in their own intramural laboratories, the majority of which are located on the NIH’s main campus in Bethesda, MD.
From the NIH Strategic Plan:NIH will support a broad, balanced portfolio of basic research across a wide range of scientific disciplines, a portfolio that will be complemented by vigorous support of innovations in technology and data science. By maintaining and strengthening its already impressive foundation of fundamental science, biomedical research will be poised to identify and capitalize upon potential opportunities for revolutionary breakthroughs with the potential for preventing, treating and curing disease. Technological innovations will also be instrumental for research aimed at making advances in the early detection, diagnosis and prevention of disease. At the forefront of this effort will be the NIH-led PMI cohort. Taking advantage of emerging biomedical tools and technologies, such as availability of electronic health records, DNA sequencing and exposure monitoring, PMI’s longitudinal research cohort of 1 million or more U.S. volunteers will establish a base of scientific knowledge that can be used to develop prevention and screening strategies tailored to individuals at the most opportune times across the course of their lives. PMI will also take advantage of the latest methods and approaches in data science, including advances in large-scale databases, computational tools and -omics methodologies to characterize individuals. In addition, PMI will offer researchers the ability to test whether mobile technologies are useful in adapting preventive strategies to individuals’ needs and preferences, enhancing delivery of interventions and improving monitoring of compliance and outcomes. PMI will pioneer efforts to merge, integrate and analyze data from a wide variety of sources with implications for prevention, including basic biological data, health status NIH-Wide Strategic Plan 26 information from electronic health records, individual data on environmental exposures, geospatial data on community environmental exposures and so on."
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CMS Industry Day 2024
CMS Industry Day 2024
December 17, 2024
CMS HQ Conference Center
Woodlawn, MD
Event Manager:Bob Jeffers bj1@fbcinc.com
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Industry Day conference will be hosted by Office of Acquisition and Grants Management (OAGM) both in-person at CMS Headquarters (HQ) and virtually and open to roughly 4,000 attendees in total. The one-day conference is scheduled for December 17, 2024. The format will include briefings from various CMS components, executive leaders, and industry leaders, including breakout sessions. Sponsorships and Exhibitor spaces (both in-person and virtual) will be available based on the needs of OAGM, including in-person tabletop displays by both small and large businesses available for information exchange and networking. From the CMS website:
Office of Acquisition and Grants Management (OAGM) Functional Statement:
- Serves as the Agency's Head of the Contracting Activity. Plans, organizes, coordinates and manages the activities required to maintain an agency-wide acquisition program.
- Serves as the Agency's Chief Grants Management Official, with responsibility for all CMS discretionary grants.
- Ensures the effective management of the Agency's acquisition and grant resources.
- Serves as the lead for developing and overseeing the Agency's acquisition planning efforts.
- Develops policy and procedures for use by acquisition staff and internal CMS staff necessary to maintain efficient and effective acquisition and grant programs.
- Advises and assists the Administrator, senior staff, and Agency components on acquisition and grant related issues.
- Plans, develops, and interprets comprehensive policies, procedures, regulations, and directives for CMS acquisition functions.
- Represents CMS at departmental acquisition and grant forums and functions, such as the Executive Council on Acquisition and the Executive Council for Grants Administration Policy.
- Serves as the CMS contact point with HHS and other Federal agencies relative to grant and cooperative agreement policy matters.
- Coordinates and/or conducts training for contracts and grant personnel, as well as project officers in CMS components.
- Develops agency-specific procurement guidelines for the utilization of small and disadvantaged business concerns in achieving an equitable percentage of CMS' contracting requirements.
- Provides cost/price analyses and evaluations required for the review, negotiation, award, administration, and closeout of grants and contracts. Provides support for field audit capability during the pre-award and closeout phases of contract and grant activities.
- Develops and maintains the OAGM automated procurement management system. Manages procurement information activities (i.e., collecting, reporting, and analyzing procurement data).
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