The Department of Defense (DoD) Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office's (CDAO) Advana program is hosting an industry day on Wednesday, September 18, 2024 at the Hyatt Regency Reston in Reston, VA. This industry day is a collaborative event for the CDAO and its industry partners to engage in knowledge sharing, explore potential partnerships, and shape future opportunities to contribute to Advana, which is the DoD's largest big-data system and unified platform that enables over one hundred thousand DoD mission owners, analysts, and data scientists to simplify more than 3,000 business systems and conduct advanced analytics.
CDAO is transitioning Advana to a contracting model that will broaden access for potential vendors while enabling the increasingly popular platform to meet more, varied user needs across the DoD. With this goal in mind, this industry day will first share the origin story of Advana and its mission space, and elaborate on its relationship to CDAO's Open Data and Applications Government-owned Interoperable Repositories approach to scaling data, analytics, and artificial intelligence capabilities. The industry day will then provide insight on ongoing Advana development activities, including fundamental knowledge to provide Advana architecture development and Advana application development. This event will also discuss initial ideas and solicit feedback on partner workflows, draft statements of work, solicitation criteria, the Open DAGIR construct, and the acquisition strategy for participating in Advana development, from design and development to testing and scaling.
This event is meant to be a collaborative effort. As such, the industry day wi include both plenary/educational sessions as well as focused breakout sessions, which will provide several opportunities for attendees to share their insights, experiences, and valuable feedback on the Advana program's content/capability areas. The event fosters networking among solution providers, end-users, and other DoD stakeholders, helping to create a dynamic, interactive environment for knowledge sharing and collaboration to develop timely, relevant software for decision advantage. Registration for this event closes September 13, and organizations can register no more than five members. To find out more about the event, including the registration link, click here.