Export Controls 101: Starting at the Beginning May 20, 2014 Instructor: Felice Laird ECoP®EAR or ITAR renewal credits = 1 Understanding the 1000+ pages of US export control regulations isn’t easy—you don’t want to just sit down and start reading the rules. What you need is someone to explain the basics to you because you need to know what the rules say and mean before you start reading them. This webinar has just what yo...

Join April Lewis, CASL Collaboration and Ideation Officer and Director of the Virtual Office Community and Computing (VOCC) Research Laboratory, DOE, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, as she discusses how the VOCC Research Laboratory uses video communication for scientific collaboration. She will share with the audience the lab’s purpose and its research objectives, highlighting its unique deployment and integration of technology. Topics to...

Using Results-Based Budgeting to Secure Budget Requests and Improve Agency Performance Federal agency leaders and budgeting professionals face continued uncertainty moving into 2014 as budget pressures increase. As a result, agencies are forced to fight for every dollar. Justifying budget requests is made easier when budget allocations are tied directly to agency performance metrics. Utilizing a results-based budgeting approach allocates funds...

The NIH Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center (NITAAC) offers free training sessions for procurement teams who purchase information technology products, services and solutions. Each attendee earns 2 CLPs when you learn about our Government-Wide Acquisition Contracts (GWACs): ECSIII for products, CIO-SP3 for services/solutions and CIO-SP3 Small Business for services/solutions with socioeconomic set-asides. NITAAC is only OMB...

This webinar is open to all. This comprehensive training provides an overview of GSA Schedules contracting and ordering procedures. Learn about placing orders against Multiple Award Schedules, as outlined in FAR Subpart 8.4. You will also learn about unique flexibilities within the GSA Schedules program. By taking this training you may receive a training certificate with credit toward your warrant requirements. Date: Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014 The...

Recordkeeping: The Devil Really is in the Details Companies are under the gun to reduce paper and go electronic, so how do you go about re-creating paper files in the digital world? How can you maintain important paperwork about any given export transaction that you may need to refer to five years down the road? What do you really need to keep and why? This webinar will address this critically important topic of importance to Export Compliance...

Government Cloud Brokerage: Who, What, When, Where, Why? Presented by FedInsider, WTOP, and Federal News Radio 1500 AM, this complimentary one-hour video training webinar will explore the Administration’s establishment of the Cloud First policy and how agencies are taking full advantage of cloud computing in order to maximize capacity utilization, improve IT flexibility and responsiveness, and minimize cost. As agencies seek to combine...

Government Cloud Brokerage: Who, What, When, Where, Why? Presented by FedInsider, WTOP, and Federal News Radio 1500 AM, this complimentary one-hour video training webinar will explore the Administration’s establishment of the Cloud First policy and how agencies are taking full advantage of cloud computing in order to maximize capacity utilization, improve IT flexibility and responsiveness, and minimize cost. As agencies seek to combine d...

Since 1970, the National Environmental Policy Act has been the cornerstone for environmental protection in the United States. To implement NEPA, federal agencies must prepare environmental impact statements or environmental assessments to study the impacts of their proposed actions. Unfortunately, some federal agencies, their consultants and affected citizens do not fully understand the regulations, legal interpretations and practices for pro...

Eliminating the Pitfalls: Steps to Virtualization in Government Presented by FedInsider, WTOP, and Federal News Radio 1500 AM, this complimentary one-hour video training webinar will explore how agencies are tackling the pitfalls inherent in virtualization to fulfill Administration initiatives like cloud adoption, data center consolidation, .greening of I.T., and telework. Virtualization is at the heart of these programs, and government...