Don’t miss IDGA’s biggest Biometrics event to date - over 25 sessions dedicated to the current and future trends of the biometrics community. Highlights of this year’s agenda include multi tracked sessions focusing on Fingerprint Analysis, Facial/Iris Recognition, National Security and Local Law Enforcement. Attendees will have the opportunity to take part in detailed discussions led by industry leaders from DHS, FBI, DoD and...

Understanding the Implications of Current UAS Initiatives: Evolving DoD Employment Methods, Commercial Use of UAS, and Capability Advances Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), projected to be a $10.6bn market in 2013, have proven their efficacy in Operations Enduring Freedom (OEF) and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) over the past decade. UAS platforms allow the DoD to project lethality and ISR capabilities without projecting vulnerability. Drone attac...

IDGA’s flagship 8th Annual Counter IED Training Forum returns in January 2013 and will investigate the IED community in a post-Iraq/Afghanistan world as the fight develops on our shores and those of our allied nations. Learn what the new shape of the IED threat will become as we begin to shift away from the Middle East to the other areas around the world. High Profile Speakers include: Colonel Santiago San Antonio, Director, Counter Impr...

The Future of Logistics and Materiel Readiness and Requirements to Support Global Operations Today’s Military Global Force operates in all continents and oceans around the world, securing the world’s main trade routes, supporting global economy and pursuing global peacekeeping. With all of these demands, our Armed Forces are faced with an array of challenges. One of these principal challenges is maintaining materiel and logistical...

IDGA’s 10th Annual Tactical Power Sources Summit will focus on the innovation, adaption, exploration and evaluation of policies and technologies responsible for reducing the demand for energy on the battlefield. It will address the financial benefits, quality of life, and the preservation of options associated with increasing energy efficiency while maintaining mission capability and supportability. What makes IDGA’s 10th Tactical...

Now in its 3rd iteration, IDGA’s Special Operations Summit is your end-of-the-year update and briefing on the progress of US Special Operations over the past year. It is a forum for the discussion on effective practices and policies needed to ensure our special operators are fully capable and equipped to accomplish the USSOCOM mission. This year’s main focus will be building and enabling a globalized Special Operations community in...

Earn Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits at this event! Recognizing that the care and well being of our warfighters does not stop when they return home, IDGA are proud to welcome a diverse group of subject matters being addressed by both DoD and VA speakers. As our troops return from theater, healthcare professionals need to identify many of their symptoms, both physical and behavioral. Many of the psychological wounds, such as TBI and...

The US incarcerates more people than any other country in the world. There are approximately 117 federal prisons, 1,200 state prisons, and 3,750 local detention/jail facilities in the US. Over 400,000 correctional professionals exist with an inmate population of 2.3 million on any given day. With new admissions, releases and transfers, almost 11 million inmates spend time in a correctional facility on an annual basis. Due to raising challenges...

Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance or ISR Summit will focus on the emerging technology trends and capability requirements for tactical Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance. The importance of delivering actionable intelligence to warfighters’ from ISR platforms has never been more important for ensuring mission success and effectiveness. Emerging challenges to integrate ISR assets into the future force are at an all...

When Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) became a focal point for US Forces it grew more essential to shift the way we approach enemy territories. While adapting our strategies, one aspect that was previously overlooked came to the fore front: know who you are fighting. Specifically, we look to personality profiles, daily schedules and routines, language, cultural identities, potential hideouts and places of cult...