Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association
| Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) |
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|---|---|
| purpose | Association: Military, Government, Industry and Science (Motto: "Bringing Government and Industry Together.") |
| Chair: | Lt. Gene. Robert M. Shea, USMC (Ret.) (President and CEO) |
| Establishment date: | 1946 |
| Number of members: | approx. 35,000 |
| Seat : | Fairfax , VA , USA |
| Website: | www.afcea.org |
The Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association ( AFCEA ) is an American association founded in 1946 at the interface of the military , government , industry and science . It sees itself as a forum for the promotion of expertise and networking in the areas of communication , information technology and security . The AFCEA claims to have around 35,000 members.
history
After the American Civil War , the United States Veterans Signal Association emerged from the original United States Army Signal Corps , which was founded by the US Army under Albert J. Myer . This organization was expanded to include veterans from the Spanish-American War and the First World War . Another World War II group, the American Signal Corps Association, merged with the US Veterans Signal Association in 1918 and was active in World War II until 1944 .
In May 1946 Maj. Gen. Harry C. Ingles, Brigadier General David Sarnoff , and a number of industry leaders came together to form the Army Signal Association and absorb the remaining chapters of its predecessors. In 1947, the name was changed to Armed Forces Communications Association, which eventually became the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association in 1954. From 1979 AFCEA became internationally active with the establishment of chapters in Europe, Asia and Canada. In Germany, these are associations under US law that are officially linked to four US military bases ( Eifel , Kaiserslautern , Mannheim and Stuttgart ) and two other associations under German statute law with headquarters in Munich and Bonn .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ AFCEA International website
- ^ John Whiteclay Chambers: The Oxford Companion to American Military History. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000, ISBN 978-0-1950-7198-6 .
- ↑ Deepa Fernandes and Howard Zinn: Targeted: Homeland Security and the Business of Immigration. Seven Stories Press, New York City, 2011, ISBN 978-1-5832-2728-2 .
- ↑ Verlag Ossietzky: Zweiwochenschrift für Politik, Kultur und Wirtschaft ( Memento of the original from October 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
