# AFCEA Spring Intelligence Symposium **Entity class:** Recurring classified intelligence symposium **Organizer:** [[wiki/AFCEA International|AFCEA International]] **Venue:** [[wiki/NGA Campus East|NGA Campus East]], Springfield, Virginia **As of:** 2026-09-23 ## Definition The **AFCEA Spring Intelligence Symposium** is AFCEA's annual flagship forum for cleared Intelligence Community professionals. The 2025 program was a two-day **TS//SI/TK//NOFORN** event at NGA Campus East addressing rapidly intensifying multipolar threats, intelligence requirements, and government-industry partnerships. The 2026 attendance policy required U.S. citizenship and active final TS//SI//TK clearances. Access must be stated by edition and role. The symposium's substantive sessions can be classified while approved tabletop exhibits remain unclassified; AFCEA's 2025 exhibitor rules allowed preapproved U.S.-citizen exhibit staff without clearances. “Held inside NGA” therefore does not mean that every person and every object at the event occupies the same classification boundary. ## Why it matters This is a high-trust requirements-exchange node: government frames difficult intelligence problems, cleared participants examine operational implications, and approved industry representatives present relevant capabilities under facility-specific controls. ## Relationships - **host facility:** [[wiki/National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency|National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency]] at [[wiki/NGA Campus East|NGA Campus East]]. - **event ecosystem:** [[wiki/Intelligence and Defense Conferences|Intelligence and Defense Conferences]]. - **collection route:** [[collections/Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment|Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [AFCEA — 2025 Spring Intelligence Symposium](https://www.afcea.org/events/2025-spring-intelligence-symposium) - [AFCEA — 2026 clearance policy](https://www.afcea.org/events/2026-spring-intelligence-symposium/information/clearance-policy) - [AFCEA — 2025 exhibitor requirements](https://www.afcea.org/events/2025-spring-intelligence-symposium/exhibitors/exhibitor-information)