Benefits Local governments are facing growing challenges to manage storm water runoff due to aging infrastructure, ever-increasing capital needs and unfunded federal mandates to manage water quality. Storm water programs that are supported primarily by the general fund must compete annually with other programs and funding is often unreliable and insufficient. Due to the recent recession, tax revenues are down and are expected to be lower in th...

The Federal Contractors Roundtable provides a highly-relevant forum where business leaders and industry professionals can discuss current and upcoming legislative, agency-specific policy and regulatory changes impacting how they find and win government sector business. January 2011 Topic: Simplified Acquisitions and the Continuing Resolution (CR): Business Opportunity? This open discussion forum focuses on the current challenges of running a B...

This program will enable participants to understand: What is metadata? Why is it important? The importance of metadata in a world increasingly filled with technology Why has metadata been a difficult topic to address in the past? Advance registration required: To reserve your seat, or for more details please visit http://www.ieee.org/richmond IEEE is the world's largest professional association dedicated to advancing technological innovation a...

All projections indicate federal agencies will be awash in increasing amounts of data with greater need to run analytics across the data while ensuring it is indexed, stored, and retrievable for future use. Join us for the Government Big Data Forum on Wednesday, January 26, 2011 at the Mayflower Renaissance Hotel in Washington, D.C. to hear from a group of experts as they outline the steps federal agencies should take to rapidly make sense of...

Jennifer Schaus & Associates host a monthly *3rd THURSDAYS* Government Contractors (no-charge) Networking Event from 5:30-7:30pm at the Kennedy Center, Foyer Level, Millennium Stage Area. All professionals are welcome. For more info & to register http://JenniferSchaus3.eventbrite.com

Learn what is covered by the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act at this four-hour webcast. Topics include how to identify and accurately report OSHA hazardous chemicals, CERCLA hazardous substances, and extremely hazardous substances at your facility. You will also learn how to determine whether the Tier II inventory reporting requirements apply to your site and how to complete the form. To help your reporting go smoothly, you...

In the last ten years, the number of data centers has more than tripled. With the mandated consolidation policy put into effect in February 2010, departments are beginning to follow recently developed roadmaps for shrinking server farms. The aim of this consolidation policy is to reduce IT costs, lower energy consumption, occupy less real estate, strengthen IT security and expand the use of cloud computing. While there is no set timeline to co...

Do More with PDF Forms and Documents Join Adobe and Carahsoft for a complimentary webcast to discover how you can extend your document- and form-based processes outside your organization to better engage with constituents and colleagues, using software you already own! With Adobe LiveCycle Reader Extensions, the Army Corps of Engineers can quickly and easily activate functionality within Adobe Reader, enabling end users to save data locally, a...

If your facility generates hazardous waste, you must comply with detailed regulatory requirements for waste characterization, container marking and labeling, waste minimization, manifesting, transportation, emergency response, and land disposal certification. EPA and state regulations require annual hazardous waste management training. At this two-day class you will learn the latest requirements of the law and how to comply. This course will t...

Security in the Federal Cloud Enhance Datacenter and Cloud Security with Virtualization Virtualization is disrupting assumptions about how security is deployed and operated in data centers and in the cloud. While many of the same basic principles of IT security apply in virtual environments as they do in physical ones, virtualization offers some key additional benefits for securing IT infrastructure, such as: Reducing the interfaces and the at...