Lean Six Sigma (LSS) has become an increasingly vital part of the Department of Defense’s continuous process improvement efforts. The benefits of LSS, the tool that was successfully pioneered and adopted by the commercial world to achieve continuous process improvements, are now being fully realized by the federal government and the DoD in particular. The objective of LSS is to utilize a data-driven approach and methodology to eliminate...

Making a Successful Transition to IPv6 Virtual Executive Roundtable - Watch on Your DesktopTuesday, February 15 - 2:00 PM EST Learn from IPv6 veterans, including their practical experiences with: Key decisions and milestones Lessons learned What not to do Sequencing migration and testing plans – what works How to know when to go enterprise wide from pilot phases How long to operate in dual-stack mode What agencies are doing now and plann...

With increased OMB emphasis on Cyberscope, and widespread realization of the power provided by visibility over all network device configurations, patches, vulnerabilities, and exposures. The Risk Automation Suite provides an integrated portal for continuous monitoring via SCAP authenticated scanning. Authenticated scanning is a critical tool for complete visibility beyond existing non-authenticated scanners, and the Risk Automation Suite allow...

Many Government IT decision makers want to move away from proprietary middleware solutions because of inflexible upgrade policies, no influence on product roadmaps, and prohibitive costs; but are wary of the management and maintenance burdens associated with free open source software components. See how subscribing to an enterprise open source software allows your organization to increase productivity, value, and control, while benefiting from...

Simplified Acquisitions. How do they play into your strategy?What exactly is a Simplified Acquisition and why do they matter? How do you pursue these opportunities and are you familiar with how agencies advertise them? Were you aware procurements conducted under Simplified Acquisition Procedures (SAP) actually favor small businesses?During FY2010, twenty federal agencies issued more than 585,000 Simplified Acquisition contract actions totaling...

Budget cuts, hiring reform, succession, and retention. These are the challenges federal government human capital and learning organizations seek to address through the talent management strategies and technologies that enable efficient recruiting, management of human capital, leadership development and maximum budgetary efficiency. But how do you find the time to sift through and make sense of the complex talent and learning management technol...

Real-Time Intelligence provides secure access, visibility and transparency to mission-critical data, delivering the ability to provision and deploy live Apps in response to dynamic and changing situations. With access to Real-Time Intelligence, your agency can increase agility for the mission and help the Warfighter rapidly respond and deploy where needed. Join us on January 26th at 12pm EST as we discuss the need to harness live data from au...

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...

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...

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...