Other dates and locations available for immediate registration. Reviewed and verified by the Federal Acquisition Institute (FAI) as meeting the training requirements for FAC-COR Level I. The Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR) is a crucial link between the Contracting Officer (CO) and the contractor. In effect, CORs are the eyes and ears of the contracting officer, ensuring that the work the contracting officer has authorized gets...

Agencies face two primary challenges in knowledge management: Data diversity. Within a given agency, much information resides in relational databases against which the IT shop writes sources such as documents of all types. These may be documents, spreadsheets, presentations; PDFs; or the many other formats such as XML (e.g. NIEM data), maps, electronic messages, Tweets and other social media postings, news items, videos, and images. Institutio...

With data breaches continuing to make headlines on a weekly basis, public sector organizations are seeking solutions to protect sensitive data, including health, financial, and identity information. Delphix Secure Data as a Service – which combines virtual data and service-based masking – represents a transformative solution that succeeds where traditional data security approaches fail. With Delphix, application and IT teams get fu...

BIS relaxes rules while proposing a wide range of new controls on “cybersecurity” products. This webinar will bring companies up to date on the latest regulations affecting exporters of products using encryption as well as discussing new and proposed rules on cyber security products. These new rules are a result of agreements made by the Wassenaar Arrangement in the past two years, as well as an ongoing US interagency review of cyb...

Attacks on critical infrastructure sites are a favoured target for terrorist groups, for good reason. They offer what is seen by the terrorist as a soft target, that is, maximum effect with minimal chance of interdiction. The potential effects in terms of damage, the hugely detrimental economic impact, disruption of normal daily life and resulting publicity, can far outweigh the terrorist organisations commitment in both manpower and risk. Sou...

Hosted and produced by the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF), a non-profit non-lobbying educational organization, the annual GEOINT Symposium is the nation’s largest gathering of intelligence professionals and the preeminent intelligence event of the year. Who is USGIF? The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) is the only organization dedicated to promoting the geospatial intelligence tradecraft...

The BIS form 748P is used for export licenses, re-export licenses and commodity classifications among other things. This form is the major feature of the web-based application platform used by BIS,“SNAP-R”. The need to apply for BIS 748P applications for exports and re-exports is increasing significantly largely due to Export Control Reform. If you are new to the BIS 748P application, you need to know all of the above and more if y...

THIS IS NOT A TACTICAL TRAINING COURSE Given today's ever-changing threat environment, preparing for and training employees to cope with workplace violence should be a key piece of an organization's incident response planning. A Unique Training Opportunity The University of Wisconsin Green Bay and the National Protection and Programs Directorate Office of Infrastructure Protection within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is hosting a on...

The U.S. Department of Energy Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP) will present a live eTraining course on June 24, 2015 from 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm EST on Energy Management Basic Training- Tools and Resources for Results. This new FEMP eTraining course is presented in partnership with the U.S. Department of the Army, Office of Assistant Chief of Staff for Installation Management (OACSIM). This course provides federal personnel with a concise...

The Rocky Mountain Chapter is pleased to announce that Robert Lee, Liaison Officer for the Department of Homeland Security and Mark McCadden, Theater Security Cooperation/C4 Counter Narcotics Specialist for NORAD/USNORTHCOM, will speak at Cool River Café about security and technology. During this presentation Robert Lee will be addressing the role and responsibilities of the Department of Homeland Security. He will discuss critical infr...