I recently attended Army Intelligence Day to gain insight to drive capture strategy in pursuit of Army business. Attendance at this event was limited to a small audience of cleared professionals. The Army's investment model was briefed during the morning session by LTG Mary Legere, Deputy Chief of Staff, G-2 (Intelligence). If you are currently formulating Army BD strategy, I encourage you to study this investment model.

Conference slides are available at AFCEA's website: 
http://www.afcea.org/events/armyintel/13/welcome.asp

Background paper for the event: Army Intelligence 2020 (Oct 2012) http://www.afcea.org/mission/intel/ArmyIntel.pdf

Get answers to questions including the following:

• What are the key Science and Technology (S&T) and Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT&E) capability investment priorities being developed and implemented by the Army, with focus on Intelligence 2020?
• What areas should the private sector concentrate their internal R&D priorities over the next 3-5 years?
• What are the key enabling capabilities to hone the enterprise and COE in order to enhance situational awareness, visualization and operational decision making ?
• How can Industry partners help Army Intelligence meet the future warfighting vision?

The Army's DCGS-A Innovation Showcase provided an overview of the future of Army Intelligence and the DCGS-A program. This was an excellent opportunity for current and future industry partners to learn more about the technologies currently under development within the DCGS-A framework. Presentation and discussion topics included:

• Army Intelligence 2020
  
• Persistent Surveillance and the Intelligence Enterprise
  
• DCGS-A Technology Focus Areas 
  
• Overviews of I2WD and INSCOM laboratory efforts

About Distributed Common Ground System Army (DCGS-A)

DCGS-A is the Army's flagship Intelligence system supporting intelligence Tasking, Processing, Analysis, Exploitation, and Dissemination at every echelon from Company to Echelon-Above-Corps. 

DCGS-A ingests data from every sensor - from space-based sensors to the Soldier as a sensor, and fuses that data together in a common environment that is compliant with Intelligence Community (IC) and Department of Defense (DoD) standards. Benefits include: Powerful Analysis - because the analyst can easily access global data from 500+ data sources through the DCGS-A global architecture; and Enhanced Collaboration, because DCGS-A is also built within an open architecture - compliant with the Defense Intelligence Information Enterprise (DI2E), IC and Joint Information Enterprise standards.