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MENU Auditorium and Overflow Seating Special Notice Regarding Government and Military Attendee Fees Cancellations, Refunds, and Substitutions Security Clearance Certification Attendees must be U.S. citizens and cleared for Secret(Registration includes sessions, continental breakfast, morning break, and lunch)
*Includes FFRDC and Government Contractor AUDITORIUM AND OVERFLOW SEATING Once the auditorium is filled, conference presentations will be televised to adjacent rooms with overflow seating. Auditorium seating will be filled on a first-come first-served basis. SPECIAL NOTICE REGARDING GOVERNMENT & MILITARY ATTENDEE FEES To receive the AFCEA member rate for conference registration you must be an active individual member or designated associate member of an AFCEA Corporate Member company. If you sign up for the member rate and do not meet the criteria, you will be charged for the correct rate. To join AFCEA or verify current membership status: CANCELLATIONS, REFUNDS & SUBSTITUTIONS Refund requests must be emailed to Gretchen Eisenhower and received no later than September 24, 2013. No substitutions are permitted after October 7, 2013. If you register and later determine that you are unable to attend because you do not have the proper security clearance, you must submit a cancellation request in writing to AFCEA Intelligence, 4400 Fair Lakes Court, Fairfax, VA, 22033, prior to September 24, 2013. Your request must be accompanied by a written statement from your security officer confirming that you do not have a Secret clearance. SECURITY CLEARANCE CERTIFICATION All attendees must be cleared for Secret access at the time you register.** Attendees WITH IC blue or green badges do not need to pass clearances.*** Please verify with your badging office that your IC badge is enabled to work at NGA facilities. Attendees WITHOUT IC blue or green badges must arrange for their Special Security Officer (SSO) or Contractor Special Security Officer (CSS) to send an SSO- or CSSS- originated clearance certification message to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). The clearance message must be on official letterhead and include the following: Attendee’s full name Place of Birth Country of Citizenship *Authority for soliciting Social Security Numbers (SSAN) is Executive Order 9397. SSAN’s will be used to identify attendees within the NGA’s access approval system. Disclosure of a SSAN is voluntary, but failure to do so may result in delay or denial of access to the NGA VCC. **The NGA does not grant interim Secret access--applicants for registration must be cleared Secret. The NGA will not provide any "read-in/read-out" security services. ***Symposium attendees whether IC badged or not must process through the visitor center to obtain a conference center badge. Security Officers should pass clearances via: Unclassified Email: WorkforceSupportCenter@nga.mil (preferred method) Secure Email: WorkforceSupportCenter@nga.ic.gov JPAS: W3NRAAL2
Clearance Deadline: October 7, 2013 Timely passage of your clearance/accesses is important. If your clearance is not passed as required, you will not be able to attend the symposium. Deadline for submitting clearances is October 7, 2013. All symposium attendees will be required to show a valid state or federal issued photo identification (i.e. a drivers license, state identification card, passport). Non-US citizens will be required to show a valid passport. Clearance Deadline: October 7, 2013 Timely passage of your clearance/accesses is important. Please note the submission deadline. If your clearance is not passed as required, you will not be able to attend the conference. The Following Items are Prohibited Inside NGA: Cell Phones Two-Way Pagers USB Flash Thumb Drives Camera/Walkie-Talkie Phones Personal Laptops Wireless/Photographic Capable PDAs Cassette Players (Recordable) Computer Media Picture Frame Key Fobs (Recordable) Phone/Room Recorders MP3 Players/iPods Satellite Radio Cameras/Camcorders NGA Campus East Directions 7500 GEOINT Drive, Springfield VA 22150 NGA Campus East Springfield, VA A Google map is available here. Directions to the NGA Visitor Control Center (VCC) Directions from I-95 and Points South:
Directions from Springfield and the Franconia/Springfield Parkway:
Directions from the North and West along Fairfax County Parkway:
Directions from Ft Belvoir, Newington, and Points East and South along Fairfax County Parkway:
A special parking form and instructions will be emailed to confirmed registrants the week before the symposium. Should you need accommodations, listed below are hotels located relatively close to NGA Campus East that you may wish to contact. Please be aware that AFCEA has made no special arrangements with any hotel. Courtyard by Marriott 6710 Commerce St Springfield, VA 22150 703-924-7200 - www.marriott.com/wassp Hilton Springfield 6550 Loisdale Road, Springfield, VA (703) 971-8900 · hilton.com Homewood Suites by Hilton Springfield 7010 Old Keene Mill Rd Springfield, VA 22150 - 1-800-CALL-HOME *Ask for the AFCEA rate Hampton Inn Springfield 6550 Loisdale Court, Springfield, VA (703) 924-9444 · hamptoninnwashingtondc.com Residence Inn Springfield Old Keene Mill 6412 Backlick Road, Springfield, VA (703) 644-0020 · marriott.com
About AFCEA AFCEA International, established in 1946, is a non-profit membership association serving the military, government, industry, and academia as an ethical forum for advancing professional knowledge and relationships in the fields of communications, information technology, intelligence, and global security. AFCEA supports local chapters and sponsors events worldwide, brings the solutions of industry to the requirements of government, publishes the award-winning SIGNAL Magazine, promotes education, and provides member benefits – all with the purpose of equipping its members to meet government’s challenges and to further their careers. AFCEA and its chapters provide a common ground for learning that is unquestioned in its integrity and unequaled in the reach of its relationships. More than 35,000 individual members and over 2,000 corporate members support AFCEA International for the same reason: we help them succeed and enable them to serve. For more information or to join AFCEA, please visit our website: www.afcea.org
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