Lowest Price Technically Acceptable (LPTA) – Training for Government to Avoid the Frustration of Not Awarding a Contract the Government Knows May Not Meet its Best Long Term Program and Cost Interests. Almost every discussion with government CXOs, Program Managers, Contracting Officers and other Managers revolve around the challenges of evaluating proposals and selecting contractors based upon Lowest Price Technically Acceptable (LPTA)...

Industry and Government Leaders Present Practical Solutions to Government Continuity of Operations Requirements. Hear from industry experts and government managers leading Business Continuity Planning and Continuity of Operations Development. This Instructor Team presents practical, real-life solutions required to establish or improve a Continuity Program within your Federal, State, Local, Tribal, or Private Sector organization. The key to su...

Digital Government Institute (DGI), celebrating over 17 years as a trusted source of education, networking, and training programs on the most important topics facing government IT management professionals, presents the third annual FREE 930gov Showcase (930 representing government's September 30th fiscal year-end.) All government agencies and industry organizations rely on an effective strategy to be successful, including IT investment, manag...

There are plenty of changes underway in how the federal government operates and manages technology for improving service, including the Administration challenging government agencies to focus on effective ways to foster citizen engagement. DGI's 15th Government Customer Service Conference -- which is free for government professionals -- will explore the policies, applications and technologies involved with improving customer and citizen servic...

September 30, 2014, government agencies were to update their public networks to Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) to comply with OMB guidance. As Federal agencies integrated IPv6 within their current operations, they now have the opportunity to employ new technology to optimize and enhance business functions and improve operational efficiencies and citizen services. The technological advances provided by the new protocol suite, including enha...

Knowledge Management practices in the Federal Government have the potential to dramatically impact service-delivery and our nation's security. By enhancing KM strategies, government agencies can more effectively collect, organize, preserve, share and analyze data and institutional knowledge of the agency and its employees to benefit current and future projects. These benefits would result in improved communications, operations, decision making...

As a follow-up to Digital Government Institute’s popular flagship E-Discovery, Records & Information Conference held in March, government Records Management professionals will gather in August to network and continue the dialog about e-discovery, records and information management policies, applications and technologies, to include updates to meeting the Government Records Directive requirements. The Records Management Conference is...

At this time last year, many government agencies were still in the Internet of Things (IoT) “discovery phase,” trying to understand how the connected network of devices and sensors could be used to provide better services to citizens, increase employee productivity or improve situational awareness. Fast forward one year, and agencies at the federal, state and local level are starting to leverage the technology in new and unique way...

Be sure to join us August 18-20, 2015, for the DBIA/SAME Federal Project Delivery Symposium at the Omni Shoreham in Washington, DC. Be a part of the hundreds of industry leaders and government agency personnel, including from GSA, NASA, National Guard, Air Force, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Dept. of Energy, Dept. of Veterans Affairs and Homeland Security, who attended the 2014 Federal Symposium. With 20 percent of attendees representing gove...

Hiring federal employees was never an easy process, and so it is especially frustrating to both line managers and HR offices when a new hire might leave after just a year or two. In today’s budget environment, with hard or soft hiring freezes, and early out and buyouts becoming ever more common, it is especially important that once a job offer has been accepted that the hiring manager be able to retain the new hire for a reasonable perio...