Calling all innovators!

Does your organization have a cutting-edge solution for current issues facing the DoD community? If so, this is your opportunity to get visibility for your ideas!

In an era of increasing requirements and constrained resources, the Department of Defense (DoD) must continue to embrace commercial innovation and the efficiencies it can provide. The Innovation Showcase is an opportunity for companies of all sizes to demonstrate groundbreaking solutions of interest to government and potential industry partners.

The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) is seeking solutions to address emerging or existing challenges. TechNet Cyber participants are encouraged to submit potential solutions for the problem statements below.

Problem Statements

Unifying Operations

Problem Statement: DISA is looking to better understand how commercial service providers use AI to improve customer interactions at the helpdesk, better notify customers of outages, and track issues from detection to resolution. How can DISA best target and aggregate operational data sets to integrate this paradigm into DISA’s current processes to provide a more proactive user experience to DISA’s customers?

Why this is Important: DISA provides a wide range of enterprise services and tools to our mission partners. It is imperative that any issues be communicated accurately and in a timely manner and resolved as quickly as possible.

DevSecOps Transformation

Problem Statement: DISA is currently offering a suite of tools to allow internal teams and our DoD customers to adopt DevSecOps and Agile practices by enabling modern project management, software development, and IT infrastructure. Alongside the technical challenge, DISA is interested in industry best practices for moving an organization to a DevSecOps mindset. How should an organization start, structure the transformation process, and identify target programs for transition?

Why this is Important: The DevSecOps paradigm will allow DISA and our mission partners to bring capabilities to production more quickly and securely. However, we will only gain the full benefit of the toolset if the workforce understands the paradigm and if the DevSecOps mindset is integrated into our processes.

Maneuver The Domain

Problem Statement: DISA is looking for solutions to address the static nature of the enterprise network. How can DISA detect bad actors and bots and utilize deception technology to impose a cost on the adversary through interacting with false targets, providing time and space for operators to remediate the revealed or discovered vulnerability?

Why this is Important: Adversaries constantly evolve the techniques they use to attack DoD networks. To appropriately defend against these techniques, we must use state-of-the-art deception techniques that impose a cost on the adversary while allowing us to capture threat intelligence in real-time and make informed decisions faster on how to remediate and implement defensive countermeasures.

Additional topics may be added as we receive them.

Submit your abstract for a presentation on the exhibit floor and gain the broadest exposure for your solution among government, military, and industry attendees. (Important Note: Please clearly identify the problem statement you are responding to in your abstract.)

Important Dates

Abstracts accepted through March 16, 2025.
Submitters notified by March 19, 2025.

What to Expect

Visibility: Title, speaker and abstract details will be published in the following locations: TechNet Cyber SIGNAL Innovation Showcase webpage, TechNet Cyber Digital Show Guide, TechNet Cyber program agenda (available via web and mobile app), and the SIGNAL Magazine Innovation Showcase compendium, published and shared with attendees via the conference website.

Location: SIGNAL Innovation Theater - Exhibit Hall, 3300 aisle, Baltimore Convention Center

Set-up: Designed to encourage interaction and engagement, the space will include a combination of theater style and high-top tables for up to 30 participants. A monitor, laptop and small sound system will be available. Presenters may choose to supply their own laptop. Internet connectivity will not be provided.

Presentation length: Time slots are available in 20-minute increments, including Q&A. We encourage presenters to invite attendees back to their exhibit booth to field additional questions.

Additional Notes:  

1. A $1,495.00 administrative fee will be charged to offset operating costs if selected to present.
2. Preference will be given to companies that are sponsoring and/or exhibiting at TechNet Cyber.
3. Session content, speakers and schedule are subject to AFCEA International review and approval.
4. All abstracts received via the submission portal, regardless of whether they were selected for presentation or not, will be included in a SIGNAL Magazine compendium and made available to attendees via the conference website.