AFCEA 75th Anniversary

From the 75th Anniversary Issue

Learn how membership matters, and explore the different types of AFCEA membership, including how Emerging Leaders serves the association’s younger members and how AFCEA’s committees offer opportunities for members with different backgrounds. Also learn about the AFCEA Educational Foundation and National Intelligence University Foundation as they support tomorrow’s workforce and STEM education.

SIGNAL 75 Years of AFCEA

The Spirit of Innovation Is Central to AFCEA’s Heritage

Time defines why membership matters.

Competitors battle it out during the Montgomery Chapter’s Counter-Strike: Global Offensive E-sports.

A Look Back at Growing an International Chapter of AFCEA

Lt. Gen Pietro Finoccho, ITAF (Ret.), longtime president of the Rome chapter, provides details regarding his longtime involvement with AFCEA and helping to grow the Rome chapter.

Industry Solutions Both Remedy and Discover

Innovations create challenges that in turn lead to more innovations.

AFCEA Celebrates 75 Years of Innovation, Strength and Engagement

The 75th anniversary, which AFCEA celebrates this year, is traditionally known as the diamond anniversary.

One of the reasons AFCEA formed was to ensure that the technology partnerships that started during World War II would continue, ensuring preparedness in the future. In this historic photograph from the September 1946 issue of SIGNALS, anti-aircraft guns await movement to action in England. Read the first issue of AFCEA’s official publication at https://signal.afcea.org/SIGNAL1946

Chairman's Message: A Bright Future Beckons AFCEA

There are exciting times ahead for AFCEA International and our local chapters as we endeavor to connect people, ideas and solutions that enable our military, government, industry and academia partners to align technology and strategy so they can succeed in their important missions.

President's Commentary: Nothing Rough About This Diamond

AFCEA’s 75th anniversary shows that it is an enduring organization that has even greater relevance today than when it was founded.

Understanding Today’s Cyber Issues

AFCEA’s Cyber Committee ensures industry and government have opportunities to exchange ideas.

Meeting Homeland Security Needs with Industry Expertise

Homeland security success depends on preparing for the unexpected, preventing the unthinkable and recovering from the unimaginable.

More History: AFCEA's 70th Anniversary Articles

AFCEA International's 70th Anniversary

Video commemorating AFCEA International's 70th anniversary

Different Wars Change Signals

A veteran of World War II and the Korean War shares how these dissimilar conflicts shaped military communications.

Signal Improves Field Communications

The message becomes more important than the messenger.

Signal During the Final Decade of Analog Communications

The fall of Saigon ends the analog world of tube radios and line-of-sight communications.

Signal Embraces Generational Changes

People, training and technology move from analog to digital in the post-Vietnam world.

Satellites Become Vital to Signal Success

Data, video and imagery drive communication requirements during Desert Storm and beyond.

Signal Shifts Focus After Industry Takes Lead

Silicon Valley, 9/11 and cyberspace are central to the move away from information assurance and analog communication.

Signal Evolves From Enabler to Domain

The digitization of the force has moved information systems from a supporting role to a co-star in the battlespace.

AFCEA 60th Anniversary Articles

So Much, Yet So Little, Has Changed in 60 Years

Six decades ago a band of signalmen and combat photographers returned from the battlefields of World War II to form the Army Signal Association (ASA), adopting a goal to "perpetuate and strengthen the ties that were fashioned in battle" and to "maintain and improve cooperation between the armed forces and industry in the design, production, maintenance, and operation of communications, electronics, and photographic equipment."

Beyond Advances Accelerate the Imagination of Time

The past 10 years have hosted an explosion of technology that has revolutionized productivity, shifted priorities and transformed communications from words to keystrokes. The cultures of play, work and even warfare have been redefined repeatedly-so much so that it is hard to remember a lifestyle before Google, the iPod, razor-thin cell phones, voice recognition and personal digital assistants. Ten years ago, most people still used paper maps to find directions and looked up telephone numbers in thick, cumbersome directories.

Parallel Organizations

In the history of the U.S. Defense Department, no date is perhaps more infamous than that of September 11, 2001. On that day, al-Qaida terrorists slammed a jetliner into the Pentagon-exactly 60 years after the day the Pentagon's construction began.

Who and When?

Try to identify the source of the quotes below and the year in which each statement was made:

Chief Information Officers Envision Technologies' Effects

During the past two years, SIGNAL Magazine has asked military command and government agency chief information officers (CIOs) to share with its readers their insights on technologies that could have the biggest impact on their organizations in the future. This column has been a forum for them to communicate-in their own words-the paths they need capabilities to travel so they will be better able to achieve their objectives.

Former AFCEA Presidents and CEOs on SIGNAL's 60th Anniversary

SIGNAL is without doubt the premier technical journal for C4I in the United States and internationally.

The Price of Life in the United States: 1946 vs. 2006

Among the most pervasive changes of the past 60 years has been the cost of living. No costs or salaries could remain static during six decades of capitalism, as 1946 saw the beginning of the removal of wartime wage and price controls. Major economic growth

Government-Industry Partnership Still Thrives After 60 Years

Six decades ago, a group of technologists from government and industry established an association dedicated to maintaining "as a contribution to industrial preparedness the splendid liaison and cooperation that existed during the [second World] War." Now, one Cold War and four hot wars later, the association that these visionaries founded has grown into an international organization that is as relevant and as important as ever.

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