Few topics generate more discussion among Federal professionals than procurement. What are considered the best strategies to acquire products and services that meet current and future agency requirements? How can you and your team make the most of available funding this year and what steps can you take to ensure that new systems and services are aligned with organizational business and mission objectives? Login to view this interactive discuss...

Making Your Website More Effective: Intro to Proven Usability Techniques Class Format: Two–Day Course Instructor: Hal Miller–Jacobs, UsabilityCoach.com Date: Wednesday – Thursday, February 10 – 11, 2010 Time: 9:00 am – 4:00 pm Place: Department of Labor (DOL) Directions to DOL Fee: $400 federal, state, or local U.S. government; $600 for non–government Course Description Almost anyone can put up a website or...

Government Executive and the SANS Institute are partnering to co-produce the Government Executive Cybersecurity Insider Series, monthly expert briefings on pressing cybersecurity issues. These hyper-current events will feature discussions with high-profile federal officials involved in crafting cybersecurity policy and implementation strategies. Government Executive Media Group and the SANS Institute invite you to attend the first of the new s...

Workshop Description This Potomac Forum Training Workshop provides an overview of data center consolidation in compliance with the Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative. The Workshop provides a detailed breakdown of major components, reporting requirements and intended goals of the Federal Initiative and how to implement the initiative in the government environment to achieve an effective, cost effective and compliant data center consol...

Sun Storage: Discover Speed, Simplicity, and Savings Too often in today’s datacenter, rapid data growth results in inefficient, hard-to-manage storage with sluggish throughput, declining quality of service, and escalating costs. As part of your introduction to the new Sun family of offerings from Oracle, we invite you to join us at a FREE half-day seminar on how to overcome this challenge. You’ll discover how Sun Storage 7000 Unifi...

Government 2.0 Camp Rocky Mountains is the first Government 2.0 camp for the Rocky Mountian Region. This camp will bring together government leaders, policy makers, scholars, students, contractors, and government employees to discuss and work collaboratively on improving government through technology. This event is open to anyone interested in improving government. Our focus will be the use of technologies, like Web 2.0 and social media tools...

This conference will provide you with broad insight and analysis into the complex world of cyber security. Defending against and defeating cyber attacks will require the combined efforts of both the public and private sectors, working to develop new technologies and new approaches for maintaining real-time protection of their individual networks. Hear how executives expect the industry and policies to develop, plus: Find out about the technolo...

Private Sector Strategies for Public Sector Computing Environments The Federal Government is in the process of sorting out what functions and tasks should be performed by its own employees, and what is best left to the expertise of their counterparts in industry and academia. All concerned have the same objective—to enable the delivery of effective, valuable computing strategies and services that make the most of public sector investment...

The FCC's Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau will hold a workshop on Emergency Alerting for the 21st Century: Leveraging Multiple Technologies to Bring Alerts and Warnings to All Americans. The workshop will educate stakeholders about the status of the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System, including Next Generation Emergency Alert System and the Commercial Mobile Alert System and will provide FEMA, the FCC and other Federal partn...

Integrated QMS Solution to ISO 9001:2008 Compliance June 10th, 2010 1:00-2:00 pm (EST) Organizations around the globe are deploying quality management methodologies based on ISO 9001 or related specifications developed uniquely for their industries. These standards and guidance documents leverage a process centric approach for quality systems with a focus on customer satisfaction and continuous improvement. Are you required to obtain complian...