There’s a good reason that the Report on Federal IT Modernization identifies the cloud as an essential platform for IT in the years ahead. Cloud has the potential not only to improve the efficiency of existing services, but also to enable the development of a new generation of services. But there are still a lot of questions to be answered. To fully leverage cloud computing, agencies need to rethink their IT architecture, address lingeri...

Join HyTrust and VMware in the Cabinet/Judiciary room for their Breakfast & Learn event the morning of Tuesday, May 22nd! Attendees will learn more about how HyTrust and VMware's integrated solutions allow agencies to: Define, detect, and defend sensitive and confidential dataEncrypt workloads and enable enterprise key managementEnable privileged administration access control, monitoring, and auditingAutomate compliance tasks and remedi...

Between the Report on Federal IT Modernization, the MGT Act, and the cyber executive order, the administration has put in place a framework for agency efforts to modernize their approach to manage their IT operations and delivering services. The question, now, is how to translate that framework into an actionable strategy. This event will provide agencies with an opportunity to delve into key issues around cloud, cybersecurity, acquisition, an...

Please join us for a SolarWinds® Technology Briefing. You will begin with breakfast and spend the day with SolarWinds learning how to get the most from our network, systems, applications, database, compliance, and security products. Our systems engineers will take a deep dive into the technical details, review key features including a new Orion® Platform feature called the PerfStack™ dashboard, and demonstrate configuration and i...

A data analytics initiative is not just about the data. It’s about putting in place the technology, policies, and processes needed to leverage the full benefits of an analytics program. It’s about removing the barriers to identifying and sharing potentially valuable data streams. And it’s about understanding the organizational and cultural challenges of institutionalizing analytics as a discipline. This event will bring toget...

As medicine becomes increasingly aware of the dangers of long-term opioid use, what can health care professionals do to help these patients? This educational session will describe MHS efforts to improve pain management for TRICARE and VA beneficiaries and arm health care providers with a variety of non-pharmacologic options to help patients with pain.

AFCEA Bethesda’s annual Health IT Day brings together more than 700 senior executives and IT professionals from across industry and government to discuss healthcare initiatives in civilian and military health. EVENT HIGHLIGHTS: Keynote presentations and panel discussions from key stakeholders at critical agencies such as FDA, CDC, CMS, NIH, ONC, HHS, VA and DOD Breakout sessions discussing challenges, trends and initiatives between gover...

AFCEA Bethesda's Monthly Breakfast series features panel discussions led by senior-executive government representatives. The goals of the event series are to foster better inter-agency communication, share best practices and lessons learned and identify mission-critical IT issues affecting the federal IT community. With speakers drawn largely from federal civilian agencies, the panel format offers a compelling snapshot of multiple agency persp...

IPM Workshop 2017 is your chance to learn about project performance techniques, including earned value management (EVM). The workshop provides training, current topics from practicing professionals, access to world leaders in project performance management, networking and the latest in software and consulting to make your program successful.The IPM Workshop is a joint event of NDIA Integrated Program Management Division, the College of Perform...

The White House American Technology Council (ATC) IT Modernization Report released August 30 emphasizes the need for updated IT infrastructure and shared services. Join AFCEA Bethesda for part two of the Chapter’s “New Faces, New Places” 90-Day sprint series with a focus on new faces in federal IT Modernization. Senior executives from across Federal civilian agencies will discuss: Adoption of cloud and collaboration tools Mod...