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So much for my softball players and USACo Engineers, huh?

So it is all quite disjointed and I am still editing my Operations Manual for work so I NEED diversion. So taking the extremely helpful info provided by your instructor and keeping Nitrus' previous work as given, this is what I have found:

I did a quick search of Military Security Conferences and one came up immediately:

8th European Conference on Information Warfare and Security
Military Academy, Lisbon & the University of Minho, Braga, Portugal.
6-7 July 2009
http://academic-conferences.org/eciw/eci...9-home.htm
I have trolled through the picture archives to see if I could find TJ but nothing popped out at me. Still working that lead....

I checked the Flight Status web-page to just see if it is even possible for direct flights from Lisbon to Atlanta to occur and they can/do, but was not able to search past flights as I don't really want to register. I leave that to you. Here is the one I came up with:

Route: Lisbon (LIS) 4:24 PM to Atlanta (ATL) 11:24 AM
Date: Thu June 24, 2010
Time: All day

This particular conference had the AFCEA (Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association) all over it so I did a search of their event calendar. Several came up for the late July 2009 period:

1) AFCEA (Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association) Marine Corps Network Operations and Security Center Overview
Event Date: 07/29/2009
Description: Colonel Robert Gearhart will provide an overview of the roles and responsibilities of the MCNOSC with an emphasis on Cyber Security as it relates to the U.S. Marine Corps.
Event Subject: MCNOSC
Event Speaker: Colonel Robert A. Gearhart Jr., USMC
Event Category: Luncheon
Event Theme: Marine Corps Enterprise Network Operations and Security
Location: Luncheon at the Clubs at Quantico, Quantico Marine Corps Base, VA
http://www.afcea.org/calendar/eventdet.j...=18850&w=Y

Its a luncheon though, seems along way to go just for lunch.

More interesting to me is this:

2) AFCEA: Open Government and Innovations Conference
http://events.1105govinfo.com/events/ogi.../home.aspx
Event Date: 07/21/2009 - 07/22/2009
Event Organizer: AFCEA
Event Sponsor: Hosted by 1105 Government Information Group and presented by the DoD CIO in partnership with AFCEA International, AFEI, NAPA, and MiXT Media Strategies.
Description: Use Discount Code AFCEA for $50 Off

Early Bird Rate Ends July 3rd

The Open Government Innovations Conference (OGI) is an opportunity to collaboratively explore how government can use - and is already using - social media tools and social software to achieve President Obama's call for government transparency, participation, collaboration and innovation.

On July 21 & 22, 2009, thought leaders from government and industry will convene at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington to share ideas and case studies about how federal, state and local government can use emerging technologies to create a more efficient and effective government Government 2.0 by: o Collaborating across government agencies o Engaging citizens o Partnering with industry

Accordingly, the Open Government & Innovations Conference (OGI) will be structured around three program tracks: 1. Government with Government 2. Government with Citizens 3. Government with Business

We are excited to embrace the collaborative spirit and use social media tools to build the OGI conference WITH you - the government social media community.

Who can pass up an Early Bird Special!

This got me wondering if there was a AFCEA Chapter in Panama City and there is at - wait for it! - Tyndall AFB.

Washington DC has two major airports: Dulles and Ronald Reagan. There are Delta commuter flights from both several times daily. Again I rely on someone else search Mon. 8/3/09 on Flight Tracker, but commuter flights don't change scheduling weekday to weekday. Of course, the flight from DC doesn't have to on Delta but most people stick with one airline for ease sake unless they are no other options. The options abound in this situation.

I'll keep sniffing at this trail as I can.