US Census Bureau Data Privacy Day

January 28, 2020

Conference Area Foyer
Suitland, MD
Event Manager:Dave Johnson djohnson@fbcinc.com

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Think it’s too late to grab some 2020 Decennial Census business? Think again! It’s one of the most significant projects for the federal government right now. According to Tom O'Keefe, business & government consultant, the three areas most likely in need of help are cybersecurity, application integration and data privacy.

• If you can provide mobile device security, you can help secure the devices that census enumerators use for taking counts in the field.
• Forty-four different systems are involved in the 2020 census, so application integration will be critical. One of the biggest remaining challenges is data & application integration between systems.
• If you have data technologies that can protect privacy while allowing researchers to draw out valuable demographic trends, the bureau will be interested in your solution.
• Discover more examples in the full Washington Technology article. 

Get your product or service in front of the decision makers for the census! At this year's U.S. Census Bureau's Data Privacy Day, sponsored by the Census Policy Coordination Office, they'll be primed for your data privacy conversation. This annual, day-long event provides an agency-wide forum to promote privacy and best practices for data protection. Census Bureau employees attend seminars on data privacy and protection, and seek out the industry exhibitors to identify and discuss solutions to the agency's data threats.

This is a perfect opportunity for all companies specializing in application integration, security and privacy to exhibit. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to meet a diverse group of professionals, who are actively searching for products/services that can streamline the census process, while still protecting Americans' identifying information. 

All employees of the Census Bureau are encouraged to attend, so expect 250 or more attendees from all departments within the agency.

NIH Tech Day

February 12, 2020

NIH Campus, Bethesda, MD-Building 10 FAES Terrace
Bethesda, MD
Event Manager:Bob Jeffers bj@fbcinc.com

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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:
From FY 2016-2020, 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.

Multi-Agency Technology Day with EPA, US Customs, USAID at Ronald Reagan Building

February 13, 2020

Ronald Reagan Building- Horizon Ballroom
Washington, DC
Event Manager:Eric Longo eric@fbcdb.com

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This event takes place at the Ronald Reagan Building International Trade Center (ITC) complex and includes promotion to the major agencies within the area. Agencies housed at the Ronald Reagan Building include the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), United States Customs and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). 

There are more than 4,000 federal personnel/contractors within walking distance of the ITC and FBC promotes to all of the agencies within the complex, including U.S. Customs Service, U.S. Department of Commerce, EPA, DC Government and USAID.

Invited personnel include IT, cyber and program managers, CIOs, cybersecurity personnel, procurement and contracting personnel, and software developers with a diverse mission as it relates to each agency.

 

IT and Cyber Day at MacDill AFB

February 19, 2020

Surf's Edge Club-MacDill AFB
Tampa, FL
Event Manager:Dave Johnson djohnson@fbcinc.com

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Join FBC and the Military Cyber Professionals Association for the IT and Cyber Day at MacDill Air Force Base. The goal of this expo is to stimulate exchanges of information between industry partners and MacDill AFB Information Management Officers, Information Technology personnel and Contracting Officers, as well as end-users, developers, scientists, researchers and project managers in the areas of cybersecurity and information technology. 

Because of the size of this location, FBC will work with the Public Affairs Offices and Military Cyber Professionals Association, concentrating promotions on information technology and both cyber- and contracting-personnel from major commands and smaller units/tenants.

MacDill is an important base to connect with, and they're looking to work with you. Don't miss out!

IT and Cyber Day at Patrick AFB

February 20, 2020

The Tides Collocated Club
Cocoa Beach, FL
Event Manager:Dave Johnson djohnson@fbcinc.com

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Join us for the IT and Cyber Day at Patrick Air Force Base. The goal of this expo is to stimulate exchanges of information between industry partners and Patrick AFB Information Management Officers, Information Technology personnel and Contracting Officers, as well as end-users, developers, scientists, researchers and project managers in the areas of cybersecurity and information technology. 

Because of the size of this location, FBC will work with the Public Affairs Offices to concentrate promotions on information technology and cyber- and contracting-personnel from both major commands and smaller units/tenants. 

Don't miss this opportunity to network with Patrick AFB's best. Register today!

IRS New Carrollton Federal Building (NCFB) Tech Expo

March 04, 2020

Upper Lobby and Cafeteria
Lanham, MD
Event Manager:Bob Jeffers bj@fbcinc.com

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Everyone knows the IRS (Internal Revenue Service) has a large and important job to do: collecting revenue to fund our government. But doing that is - of course - a huge undertaking, requiring a robust cyber and IT team to ensure accuracy, safety and security. Meet this team face-to-face at the IRS New Carrollton Federal Building (NCFB) Tech Expo. The NCFB houses both the IT and Procurement divisions of the IRS, making this event a smart choice for any technology company wanting to get their product or service in front of procurement and IT personnel and contractors. This always popular event has limited capacity. We recommend signing up as early as possible.

General Information:
The IRS New Carrollton Federal Building houses the IT functions for IRS including the Applications Development, Enterprise Operations, Enterprise Services and Management Associate CIO groups. As of 2015, the procurement functions from the IRS Oxon Hill Constellation Centre complex have moved into the New Carrollton Federal Building as well.

IRS Background Information:
The IRS employs more than 92,000 people in its Washington, D.C., headquarters and more than 650 offices in all 50 States, U.S. territories, and some U.S. embassies and consulates and relies extensively on computerized systems to support its financial and mission-related operations. As such, it must ensure that its computer systems are effectively secured to protect sensitive financial and taxpayer data. The IRS needs to ensure that it leverages viable technology advances as it modernizes its major systems and improves its overall operational environment. 

From Objective 5 of the IRS Strategic Plan:
INVEST IN INNOVATIVE, SECURE TECHNOLOGY NEEDED TO PROTECT TAXPAYER DATA AND SUPPORT TAXPAYER, PARTNER AND IRS BUSINESS NEEDS.
"At the core of our operations is an IT infrastructure that has served us well for many years. We take pride in our ability to administer the Tax Code each filing season, and the strength of our IT systems and applications are a strong asset in doing so. We have implemented various initiatives in recent years to modernize our IT systems, enable daily return processing, improve the breadth of digital taxpayer services and enhance the security of our systems to successfully combat cyber threats. These efforts have been crucial to our success, and we must continue to innovate our technology systems over the next four years.
As taxpayers’ needs change, security threats increase and technologies evolve, we will invest in the appropriate technology and IT workforce skills to support and improve our operations. We will continue to reduce disparate IT systems and apply a common architecture to be more responsive to IRS business needs. We will bolster the security of our IT systems and enhance authentication capabilities to broaden digital services to taxpayers and stakeholders. Furthermore, we will apply technology to reduce our dependence on manual processing and equip our workforce with tools that improve their performance and provide greater workplace flexibility. By improving collaboration and governance between business and IT, we will ensure our technology capabilities meet the needs of taxpayers, partners and the IRS workforce.

Strategies:

• Ensure a common, robust technology and data architecture exists to improve core tax administration, support cost-effective operations and protect IRS data, systems and networks from security breaches.
• Develop the authentication capabilities and technology required to expand secure, digital services to taxpayers.
• Enable electronic workflow that reduces or eliminates manual processing.
• Further develop a flexible and agile technology environment that enables IT to better meet business needs.
• Provide our workforce with reliable, advanced technology that enhances performance and enables flexibility."

Army Tactical SIGINT Expo at NSA

March 24 - 25, 2020

R&E Building 1st Floor Main Corridor
Ft. Meade, MD
Event Manager:Bob Jeffers bj@fbcinc.com

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The Army Tactical SIGINT Conference expects approximately 500 attendees. This group, hosted by the Army Technical Control and Analysis Element (ATCAE) - will convene to discuss future technologies in Signals Intelligence (SIGINT), focusing on applications for the actual users in the field, i.e. our soldiers.

There are few opportunities to get in front of this valuable SIGINT audience. This is your chance.

The Army SIGINT Expo at NSA will be held for two days during the conference. Most attendees will be Army personnel from outside of the NSA complex. FBC will work with NSA to invite all NSA personnel and contractors to the expo, as well.

Unlike a lot of other symposiums and conference-style events, exhibit time has specifically been built into the agenda to allow all attendees the opportunity to view new technology applications at the expo. Capability providers will be in the R&E Building 1st Floor Main Corridor, which is located immediately below the Auditorium, where conference sessions will be held.

Don't miss out!

 

About the Army Technical Control and Analysis Element (ATCAE)

ATCAE provides strategic signals intelligence (SIGINT) support to the NSA in direct support of the strategic intelligence and EW requirements of the U.S. Army.

Fort Shafter - Technology Day

March 30, 2020

Club Hale Ikena
Honolulu, HI
Event Manager:Eric Longo eric@fbcdb.com

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Join us during the 27th Annual FBC Hawaii Technology Day Series for our Technology Day at Fort Shafer in 2020. This annual series of technology days takes place at five military bases around the island of Oahu, HI. These events have a successful history of bringing together the islands' DoD personnel, employees and contractors with industry partners to share information on some of the latest advancements in the areas of Information Technology (IT), C4, Cybersecurity, Communications and Tactical Technologies.

For more information about FBC's Hawaii Series visit http://www.fbcinc.com/hawaiiseries

About Fort Shafter 

Fort Shafter is the focal point for command, control and support of Army forces in the Asia-Pacific Region. This post houses the senior Army headquarters leadership in Hawaii, and is home to the headquarters of the United States Army Pacific Command (USARPAC). USARPAC is an Army Service Component Command (ASCC) of the United States Army and is the army component unit of the U.S. Pacific Command, except for units in Korea. The main areas of this command's jurisdiction includes Hawaii, Alaska, the Pacific Ocean and Japan. USARPAC provides forces, commands assigned forces and enables full spectrum operations to deter aggression, advance regional security/cooperation, respond to crises and fight to win. On order, USARPAC provides command and control for small scale contingency operations or serves as Combined or Joint Headquarters to support Humanitarian Assistance/Disaster Relief and peacekeeping operations.

The Technology Day at Fort Shafter is supported by the 516th Signal Brigade. The 516th Signal Brigade is a forward-based major subordinate operations and maintenance command of the 311th Signal Command, also headquartered at Fort Shafter. The Brigade supports the United States Army Pacific (USARPAC). The Brigade has five signal battalions, located in Alaska, Hawaii, mainland Japan and Okinawa, Japan. The 311th and Brigade family are affectionately known throughout the Pacific Theater as "Team Signal." The 516th Signal Brigade's motto is "Voice of the Pacific."

Other tenant units include the Expeditionary Contracting Command, U.S. Army Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT), Army Corps of Engineers, 8th Theater Sustainment Command and the 196th Infantry Brigade.

FBC also invites Information Management Officers' and IT personnel from Tripler Army Medical Center, and the Army Reserve Center at Shafter Flats. Tripler is the largest military medical treatment facility in the Pacific Basin.

2020 Air Force Intelligence Community Security Review Board (SRB)

March 31 - 01, 2020

Omni at the Colonnade
San Antonio, TX
Event Manager:Stephanie Ascher stephanie@fbcinc.com

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ISSM/ISSO/CISOs and other cybersecurity professionals throughout the Air Force are coming together for Air Force (AF) Intelligence Community (IC) Security Review Board (SRB), a three-day event hosted by the Air Force Intelligence Community Chief Information Security Officer. Held March 31 – April 2 at the Omni San Antonio Hotel at the Colonnade, San Antonio, TX, the 2020 AFIC SRB will cover what’s happening in the Intelligence Community, as it relates to cybersecurity.

2020 AFIC SRB Subject Matter:

• The Latest Policy Changes and Updates
• Recent Developments in System Accreditation
• General Intelligence Community Cybersecurity Concerns

Get face time with the Air Force Intelligence Community! At SRB 2020, you can discuss the operational capabilities and functionality of your products and services with key AF IC leadership and support staff.

SRB primarily includes heavy attendance from the Air Force nationwide. As of 1/9/20, more than 300 personnel have already registered to join us for the invite-only event.

Current 2020 attendee titles include:

• CISO
• Chief of Cybersecurity
• Cloud Engineer
• Computer Scientist
• Cybersecurity Engineer
• Information System Security Engineer, Officer and Manager
• IT Specialist
• Program Managers
• Security Control Assessor, Engineer, Manager and Specialist
• Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
• Special Security Officer and Representative
• Systems Engineer

Expect high attendance! In 2019, more than 500 attendees registered a full month before the event had begun. At least 50 of those registered attendees were senior leaders/decision makers, GS-14!

A Sample of 2019 Job Titles:

• Information Technology Specialist, Policies and Plans
• IT Specialist
• AF/NSA Xacta Support
• NSA ISSE IT Specialist
• Systems Administrator
• VP of IT and Telecommunications Services
• Intelligence Analyst SSO
• Personnel Security Senior Electronics Engineer
• Program Manager
• Lead IA Engineer Systems Engineer
• Systems Engineer Cybersecurity Test Lead
• ISSM
• CDAR Requirements Lead Crypto Mod Lead
• AF JWICS Project Manager
• MAJCOM CISO
• MAJCOM SSO

A Sample of 2019 Commands, Units & Squadrons Include:

• Air Combat Command (ACC)
• Air Force Material Command (AFMC)
• US Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM)
• AETC Air Education & Training Command (AETC)
• Air Force Research Lab (AFRL)
• Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC)
• Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA)
• Air Force Lifecycle Management Center (AFLMC)
• US Air Force Weapons Center (USAFWC)
• Air Communications Squadron (ACOMS)
• US Air Forces Central Command (AFCENT)
• Pacific Air Force (PACAF)
• National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)
• Space & Missile Systems Center (SMC)
• And many more

Download the 2020 SRB Prospectus.

Schofield Barracks - Technology Day

March 31, 2020

Nehelani Conference Center
Wahiawa, HI
Event Manager:Eric Longo eric@fbcdb.com

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Join us during the 27th Annual FBC Hawaii Technology Day Series for our Technology Day at Schofield Barracks in 2020. This annual series of technology days takes place at five military bases around the island of Oahu, HI. These events have a successful history of bringing together the islands' DoD personnel, employees and contractors with industry partners to share information on some of the latest advancements in the areas of Information Technology (IT), C4, Cybersecurity, Communications and Tactical Technologies.

About Schofield Barracks & Wheeler Army Airfield:

Schofield Barracks was established to provide mobile defense of Pearl Harbor and the entire island. The Technology Day is supported by the 30th Signal Battalion. Headquartered at Wheeler Army Airfield, the 30th Signal Battalion is the Network Enterprise Center providing Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Information Management (C4IM) services to 40,000 customers across 22 Army installations & 4 joint bases in Hawaii and 1,400 users in Kwajalein atoll. The 30th is one of four signal battalions in the 516th Signal Brigade that support the Army Pacific Theater in Hawaii and other regions including Alaska, Guam, Kwajalein and Japan. The 30th Signal Battalion's motto is "Voice of Hawaii."

Schofield Barracks has been the home of the 25th Infantry Division, known as the Tropic Lightning Division, since 1941 as well as the Command Headquarters for United States Army Hawaii (USARHAW). The 25th Infantry Light Division is a rapid strike force of nearly 12,000 soldiers that focused primarily on training for low intensity conflict throughout the Pacific. The main focal point for IT with the 25th ID is the G6.