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https://atlanta.afceachapters.org/2024-homeland-security-critical-infrastructure-conference “AFCEA Atlanta Homeland Security Conference on Critical Infrastructure November 6-7 , 2024 with a large-scale tabletop cybersecurity exercise on November 5, 2024 AFCEA Atlanta is proud to announce our Fourth Annual Homeland Security Conference is back for 2024! This will be a multi-day event focused on critical infrastructure, with a pre-conference cybersecurity exercise open to registrants who want to observe or participate.”

The Department of Homeland Security will turn 1 year old March 1, but the past year has not been without challenges, one official said today. Janet Hale, homeland security undersecretary for management, told members of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association that the past year has been extraordinary and that standing up the department has been one of the "largest management challenges the federal government has ever seen." Hale was the keynote speaker for the opening day of AFCEA's 2004 Homeland Security Conference here. She said when the department was stood up in March 2003, some 180,000 employees had...