The saga of austerity and government contracts in a budget-driven environment continues in 2013. Key challenges in the world of audit and compliance are huge concerns as well. Decisions associated with current and future scenarios highlight the need for prudent measures to help you better understand and get ahead of the concerns and issues relative to audit and compliance. To better prepare you for the potentially impactful challenges ahead, t...

THIS IS NOT A TACTICAL TRAINING COURSE Does your organization have a plan for an active shooter event or hostage taking? Given today’s ever-changing threat environment, preparing for and training employees to cope with workplace violence should be a key piece of an organization’s incident response planning. A Unique Training Opportunity The City of New Orleans and the National Protection and Programs Directorate Office of Infrastru...

Fiscal cliffs and sequestration are looming. At the same time government programs and agencies have fewer resources and are challenged to stop fraud and effectively investigate fraudulent activity. As revenues drop and fraudulent activity increases due to weak internal controls, agencies are looking to technical capabilities to help investigate and gather evidence. Attend this session to learn about the challenges and opportunities in fraud re...

Save the Date: EZGovOpps/Tidewater TechExpo GovCon Ft. Meade Conference on March 28th @ the BWI Marriott in Maryland. We have the pleasure of having Brigadier General Mike Hayes as our keynote speaker. He is also the Federal Director of the DBED for the State of Maryland. It is a FREE event for attendees and your BBI/BRAC representatives will be in attendance as well- as exhibitors. With over 20 breakout sessions involving many; capture manage...

On March 1, automatic sequestration cuts took effect for the U.S. federal government. The cuts are evenly split between domestic and defense programs, with half affecting defense discretionary spending (weapons purchases, base operations, construction work, etc.) and the rest affecting both mandatory (Social Security or Medicaid) and discretionary domestic spending. As federal, state and local governmental entities work to enact the budget cut...

This is the first strategic activity to focus exclusively on the Mentor-Protégé programs in federal contracting. This roundtable will bring together top government officials and seasoned government contractors for two days. The expressed purpose is to help attendees take advantage of the opportunities that the Mentor-Program has to offer. This is a time when government guidelines have become increasingly difficult to follow and c...

Join us in discussing advancements on the U.S. Canadian border such as, Automated Targeting Systems (ATS), Remote Video Surveillance Systems (RVSS), Maritime Radar Systems, Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT), and the “Beyond the Border” action plan, so we can begin to work towards improving the security and efficiency of our shared border. Keywords: strategy, policy, capitol hill

We invite you to join us for the next program from the Future of Financial Crime speaker series, “Latitudes and Attitudes – Zooming in on Geospatial Data, Privacy and the Law in the Digital Age.” Advancements in technology now make it much easier and less expensive to collect and monitor an individual’s location. Government agencies around the world are beginning to recognize the power of this information to address a n...

The age of big data has officially arrived in government. Storage systems are near capacity as the amount of information the federal government captures has increased exponentially since 2000, and is projected to double every year going forward. This new information, effectively captured, managed, and analyzed, has the power to enhance profoundly the effectiveness of government. Yet government CIOs and their staffs must rise to the big data ch...

The DoD has been at the forefront of developing and installing Electronic Health Record Systems (EHRS), serving over nine million patients, one hundred thirty thousand Medical Health System (MHS) staff, over four hundred medical clinics and more than sixty military hospitals. Health care professionals in all fixed military medical facilities and in many deployed environments have access to EHRS. (By contrast, less than ten percent of US non-m...