How to Guarantee a Decision Maker MeetingPicture this scenario: After much preparation, you meet with a potential government buyer. You introduce your outstanding product or service, demonstrate how your staff is fully capable of meeting production and/or service demands, and show research detailing how you are competitively priced. The potential buyer is impressed, but at the end of the hour, he explains that while he is very interested, he i...

The NDIA Legislative Information Division (LID) is sponsoring a Breakfast in honor of the National Aerospace Week. The goal of the National Aerospace Week is to highlight the important contributions of the defense industry with a series of events, September 12-18, 2010 in Washington DC. NDIA POC: Debra Stockton, dstockton@ndia.org or (703) 247-2595

The conference focuses on real-world examples of how inter-agency initiatives are creating specific implementations of secure information sharing, interoperability, collaboration, and new acquisition paradigms. By attending, you will: * Interact with key leaders of information sharing, enterprise services and joint coalition programs* Learn implications of re-arranging DoD IT functions* Understand data management and sharing issues in conteste...

Last summer's impassioned debate over the Obama Administration's health care bill has faded, but the real work of transforming the United States health care system has only just begun. In order to expand health care coverage to more than 31 million uninsured citizens, the federal government has been given a host of new mandates, subsidies and oversight powers. Federal agencies can now penalize individuals who don't buy insurance and employers...

The Department of Transportation (49 CFR 172.704) makes training mandatory for almost anyone who handles hazardous materials, regardless of the amount. This affects employees who select or fill hazardous materials packages, label containers, complete shipping papers, load or unload vehicles, transload hazardous materials, or operate vehicles used in the transport of hazardous materials. Receive your required training and learn how to comply w...

The Department of Transportation (49 CFR 172.704) makes training mandatory for almost anyone who handles hazardous materials, regardless of the amount. This affects employees who select or fill hazardous materials packages, label containers, complete shipping papers, load or unload vehicles, transload hazardous materials, or operate vehicles used in the transport of hazardous materials. Receive your required training and learn how to comply w...

Washington Breakfast Club™ (WBC) is a monthly information exchange which features legislators, agency executives and officials from all branches of federal government presenting on relevant and timely information to interested industry participants. For the September 2010 WBC, we are pleased to welcome Mr. Jack Beecher, Deputy for Small Business, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Norfolk District. About the PresentationThe Norfolk District C...

Overview According to recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) estimates, losses from waste, fraud, and abuse in federal programs cost the government upwards of $90 billion annually. President Obama has made reducing these losses a major priority of his administration. On November 23, 2009, the President Obama issued Executive Order 13519, “Reducing Improper Payments and Eliminating Waste in Federal programs.” On March 22, 20...

Sheppard Mullin, Trust Strategy Group and Charles River Associates Present: The 2010 UK Bribery Act (FCPA On Steroids) V. The Reinvigorated FCPA -- Who Has the Bigger Stick! After thirty years of arguably lackluster application of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), the U.S. Department of Justice has now escalated its position on corruption and bribery in international business and re-defined it as a “national security issue....

GIS in the Rockies is the premier geospatial conference in the intermountain West. 2010 marks the 23rd annual conference. Our mission statement is: "Creating a forum for business, government, and academia to foster collaboration and education related to important topics, emerging trends and innovations across the geospatial community." This year's conference focuses on examining the growth opportunities for geospatial technology in our inform...