TechNet Cyber Supporting Partner Opportunities

The panel will explore the challenges of maintaining our cyber superiority from the tools we use to the talent we build.  We will get to hear from a variety of subject matter experts about capabilities critical to cyber operations, how we can develop solutions to get ahead of our adversary and training our forces to be ready for any cyber mission....

Please join us for this panel discussion of current priorities, focus areas, operational concepts and lessons learned and how they are driving the manning, training and equipping of the Cyber Force as it addresses mission and warfighting requirements.    ...

Most artificial intelligence (AI) projects fail to deliver on expected value (Source: McKinsey, others). When AI projects fail in support of the cyber mission force, we compromise our ability to counter adversaries in cyberspace, weakening national security. As cyber threats grow in volume, velocity, and complexity, successful AI implementation and adoption becomes increasingly urgent. With over a decade of experience designing, developing, and delivering enterprise AI applications, C3 AI has witnessed failed AI initiatives across many industries.  During this session, we will share common observations across these failures as well as best practices and lessons learned for more successful enterprise AI... ...read more...

As USCYBERCOM has embraced its responsibility to provision warfighting capabilities for the Joint Forces, it pursues all available avenues to enable acquisition at the speed of cyber. This talk will discuss some of those acquisition innovations, address the role of USCYBERCOM in the DOD science and technology community, explain the public USCYBERCOM Command Challenge Problems, and highlight the challenges to be addressed by USCYBERCOM's artificial intelligence roadmap and implementation plan....

Approved for 1 CompTIA CEU for: A+, Network+, Security+, Cloud+, and Linux+; 1 GIAC CPE; 1 CertNexus CEC for CyberSec First Responder (CFR) The U.S. Government has embarked on an endeavor to improve cyber security, including critical infrastructure, by migrating to zero trust architecture with the deadline for executive departments and agencies to meet specific standards and objectives by the end of FY 2024. OMB Memo M-22-09 states, “The foundational tenet of the Zero Trust Model is that no actor, system, network, or service operating outside or within the security perimeter is trusted. Instead, we must verify anything and everything attempting to... ...read more...

Mr. Michael Clark is the Director of Acquisition and Technology, J9, at United States Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM). With experience in USCYBERCOM that pre-dates the conception of the organization, Mr. Clark is keenly aware of the strategic and operational capability gaps to compete with our adversaries in cyberspace. His current role is delivering those key capabilities, namely the Joint Cyber Warfighting Architecture (JCWA). USCYBERCOM is maturing its acquisition management responsibilities, going from an acquisition workforce of 10 personnel to manage $70M of execution in 2013 to currently execution $750M, and now growing toward a Program Executive Office (PEO) to manage JCWA in Fiscal Year 2027 as enacted by National Defense Authorization... ...read more...