The ATARC Federal Cloud & Data Center Summit will be held on August 3, 2017 at the Washington Marriott at Metro Center in Washington, D.C. (Cloud & Data Center Summit Agenda) This educational, one-day symposium will examine the Cloud tools and techniques being used by the Federal Government to provide agencies with greater efficiency and cost savings. The event is free to government and full-time academics and qualifies for 7.5 CPE cre...

Federal Mobile Strategic Sourcing Day, hosted by the Mobile Services Category Team and the Advanced Technology Academic Research Center, will be held on Tuesday, August 1 from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the Auditorium at GSA Headquarters, 1800 F St., NW, Washington, D.C. Note: Registration opens at 8:30 a.m., please arrive at least 15 minutes early to clear security. This educational event for the Federal contracting community is open to govern...

Information security training in Washington, DC from SANS Institute, the global leader in information security training. At SANSFIRE 2017, SANS offers more than 45 hands-on, immersion-style security training courses taught by real-world practitioners. The site of SANSFIRE 2017 (July 22-29) is Washington Marriott Wardman Park. Event Schedule: One-Day Course: Begins on Sunday, July 23 Two-Day Courses: Begin on Saturday, July 22 Four-, Five-, and...

The American Council for Technology and Industry Advisory Council (ACT-IAC) invites you to Drones in the Federal Airspace and Internet of Things (IoT) Forum on Wednesday, July 26, 2017 at the Renaissance Washington in Washington, DC.The theme, "Unleashing the Power of IoT and Drone Technology', will focus on how drones and IoT are currently being used in the federal arena and look to the endless possibilities that IoT and Drones can offer. The...

All too frequently, good ideas that could benefit the federal government never make it to their attention due to the costs of creating and marketing such innovations. Many small and mid-sized businesses are starved of resources and capital that can allow their company to succeed in the federal marketplace or do not have the access to secure additional funding to make their dream idea a reality. Does your company have ideas, innovations or serv...

The American Council for Technology and Industry Advisory Council (ACT-IAC) invites you to the Fraud and Abuse Forum on Thursday, July 20, 2017 at the Renaissance Washington in Washington, DC.The theme, ‘Requirements to Results: Fraud and Abuse Where We Are and What’s Next’, will focus on challenges of the Fraud Reduction and Data Analytics Act of 2015 and look to the future of fraud and abuse. In a report, issued on January...

The Mobility Hack: Engineering the Secure Mobile Workforce Across the federal government, mobility has become a way of life, as the line between office employees and mobile employees is blurring and might soon disappear altogether. Federal employees expect to have access to the information they need no matter where they are what device they are using. Such capabilities are essential to improving the efficiency of the workforce and the quality...

Federal agencies today face mandates to modernize their technology infrastructure to improve security and agility; re-capture costs now spent on maintaining aging IT systems; and comply with executive orders without disrupting ongoing initiatives. This briefing will explore how government agencies can best achieve their mission through network modernization. We'll Discuss: Acquisition changes that will future-proof government’s technolog...

Welcome to the Industrial Revolution! Join F5 Networks and Carahsoft for Session 2 of the Exploring F5 Seminar Series: Introduction to iWorkflow, iApps, and the Tenant Model.In Session 1 of the Exploring F5 Seminar Series we defined the framework for a variety of topics related to F5’s vision for cloud services and the new network perimeter. We broke those capabilities down into three main areas: Age of Enlightenment – Analytics a...

The president issued an executive order (EO) on March 17, 2017 which requires agencies to plan and implement long-term workforce reductions and incorporate the plan as a government-wide workforce priority into their Agency Strategic Plan and/or Human Capital Operating Plan. This Potomac Forum training workshop for government will provide information for agency executives, managers, and staff to respond to the EO. Experienced human capital exe...