Scholarships Available! If you would like to attend the GTRA Council Meeting but are facing travel / training budget restrictions, please contact us and ask about scholarships available for your agency! Register Now - Pay Later at $499 Discount Rate! At a time where budget challenges, new technologies, mandates, and security threats are forcing agencies to re-assess their IT strategies, the 2012 GTRA Technology Council Meeting will bring toget...

Overview of the Workshop: Government is facing new management challenges. Agencies are facing concurrent demands to reduce IT costs, shorten deployment cycles, and respond to increased scrutiny of capital investments by OMB and the Congress. The federal Capital Planning and Investment Control (CPIC) process must overcome these challenges to enable the successful delivery of new IT capabilities and services. The “new CPIC” must als...

Writing a proposal can be a daunting difficult task. Having a well written proposal is a critical step in effective business development. This webinar/teleconference will focus on what government evaluators want to see, structuring the response so they find it easily. It will also go over the top five reasons for failure, how to prepare for oral presentations, how to request a debriefing, what to expect and how to determine if a protest is a v...

The Senior Leader Program is designed for senior managers in the federal government and comparable level military, state and local officials who wish to enhance their leadership potential or who are interested in preparing for the Senior Executive Service. The curriculum is based on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s Executive Core Qualifications and meets OPM’s requirement that participants in agency-specific candidate dev...

New Special Reduced Registration Feeand Team Rates$795 for Government New Special Reduced Registration Fee$895 for Industry Overview of the Workshop: Hiring federal employees was never an easy process, and so it was 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 c...

In 2011, Cricket Liu spoke just before World IPv6 Day about the need to deploy IPv6. Finally, the world was beginning to embrace the next-generation Internet protocol. Now, with World IPv6 Launch calling upon major ISPs, manufacturers of home networking equipment and web companies around the world to permanently enable IPv6 for their products and services, we have assembled Infoblox’s IPv6 Center of Excellence to continue educating thos...

Attend the GBTA National Travel Forum (NTF) , June 4 – 7 in Phoenix, AZ where you will be delivered a tool box of industry best practices that will immediately benefit your agency by lowering travel spend and drive transparency through data. Hear from GSA executives like Tim Burke and the best in corporate travel management on how to save your department 20% in travel spend. Corporations react quickly to changing economic, political, an...

“Interpreting Iranian Sanctions Provisions: Connecting the new with the old” Webinar Webinar Instructor: Amanda DeBusk Wednesday, May 30 1:00 PM EDT U.S. concerns about Iran’s nuclear program have driven recent efforts to increase the sanctions placed on Iran. The comprehensive Iranian sanctions of 2010 were followed by new sanctions at the end of 2011. The February 5, 2012 Executive Order and February 27th implementing regul...

The popularity and possibilities that social recruiting have brought to the profession have caused HR and recruiting pros to take notice. This three-day event offers expert insight into best practices, current trends, metrics, and statistics on today’s talent pool and how to effectively leverage social recruiting strategies to find the best candidates. The summit will offer one full day of workshops and two conference days full of intera...

New Special Reduced Registration Feeand Team Rates$695 for Government New Special Reduced Registration Fee$795 for Industry Overview of the Workshop: The OMB Circular, No. A–11, Part 7 PLANNING, BUDGETING, ACQUISITION, AND MANAGEMENT OF CAPITAL ASSETS says that all major projects will be managed using EVMS as defined in the Capital Programming Guide. That the information will be used to report to status against OMB 300 programs. EVM is a...