Attend an upcoming National Contract Management Association (NCMA) National Education Seminar! The COR Member of the Acquisition Team: The Contracting Officer's Representative (COR) Guide to Performance and Quality The "COR Member of the Acquisition Team” National Education Seminar (NES) is designed to better illustrate the important role that the contracting officer’s representative (COR) plays in ensuring that the contract specia...

The 2013 Federal Cloud Computing Summit and Technology Showcase will examine how agencies have implemented Cloud solutions within their organizations. It will also look at the Cloud broker model and examine the future of Cloud solutions within the government. The following topics will be addressed during the day: Best practices in the acquisition of commodity IT Examination of recently-completed Federal Cloud projects Cloud success stories and...

Jennifer Schaus hosts a series of government contracting webinars (complimentary). They are all recorded and available for download. Full calendar is available at: http://JenniferSchaus5.eventbrite.com RECORDING OF DEBRIEF Webinar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3awzSLWpMK8 Anna Urman of Tactical Insight joins us for a webinar discussion on the "debrief". Learn what it is, how, when and why to ask for it. Your questions will be addressed in a...

FBC and NARA are working together to coordinate the 6th Annual National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Information Technology Security Awareness Day. This year's theme is "Mobile Technology: Managing Risks and Meeting Business Needs." Exhibitors will be on-site to share information and demonstrate their latest security products. FBC has great support from our sponsor within the Office of Information Services, who will help to promo...

Join us for a series of one-hour training sessions to examine to the current policies, trends, executive orders and technology for establishing an interactive dialogue with constituencies and effective online collaboration. May 28: Developing Insights from User Analytics Analytics can help your agency better understand user activity, as well as uncover patterns that can save money—or even a life. From social analytics to monitoring busin...

Perhaps they were mis-hired to begin with. Or, perhaps they were promoted well past their ability; perhaps they simply don't want to do what's required... You just don't know and you're spending a ton of your time analyzing the "why" and the "what. Perhaps you're thinking is "I'm spending my time for no return, when I could be spending it on someone else for recognizable value." Dr. Stephanie shares success strategies on working with the un-co...

THIS IS NOT A TACTICAL TRAINING COURSE Does your organization have a plan for an active shooter event or hostage taking? 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 South Dakota School of Mines and Technology and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, ar...

We invite you to SANS Austin 2013 in May. Our course offerings include courses from IT Security Essentials to our cutting-edge Virtualization and Private Cloud Security course. You will also find incident handling, forensics, and security policy and leadership training. Courses are taught by real-world practitioners who are the best at ensuring you not only learn the material, but that you can apply it immediately when you return to the office...

In recent years, the Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative (FDCCI) has tasked Government agencies with consolidating Data Centers for reducing costs, improving efficiencies, promoting the use of Green IT, and creating an infrastructure that is fast, nimble and cost effective. Come hear from government and industry practitioners who are at the forefront of developing the next generation government data center. Attend this webinar and lea...

Spend 90 minutes with a practicing professional—a contractor selling commercial items to the U.S. government, directly and indirectly. Learn from years of research and practice on how to navigate and negotiate commercial items and pricing. Hear the answers to the questions asked by buyers. Apply the principles and resources provided to leverage your commercial product or service. Participants will learn about: Saving on procurement costs...