In October 2015, the Office of Management and Budget released its much-anticipated Cybersecurity Implementation Plan (CSIP), a multi-pronged initiative aimed at getting agencies up to speed on cybersecurity. The strategy reflects the dual realities of the cybersecurity challenge: The increasingly diverse and sophisticated nature of today’s cyber threats, and the increasingly complex nature of the federal enterprise to be protected. A str...

The ATARC Federal DevOps Summit will be held on Thursday, August 18, 2016 at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C. Mark Schwartz, Chief Information Officer, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, will serve as the Government Chair of this educational, one-day symposium featuring government speakers and panels examining the practice of DevOps - and the complementa...

Overview: With the current headlines regarding government email retention and e-discovery, it is important to understand how the upcoming deadlines will impact your agency. This one-day Potomac Forum Workshop will focus on the activities mandated by the NARA/OMB Records Management Directive. Key executives from NARA and government agencies will discuss the directive and its implementation. Detailed review and analysis of the directive will be...

Federal agencies have only begun to explore the benefits of the cloud. Without a doubt, five years into the federal government’s “Cloud First” policy, cloud is delivering important results—most notably the ability to quickly deploy IT resources and scale up operations as requirements change. But in most agencies, the greater potential for transformation remains largely untapped. With the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Ac...

The NextGen Summit is a place to cultivate and enable the absolute best next generation of government. Whether you’re a millennial just entering the government workforce or a manager tasked with retaining and developing talent, or a seasoned public servant looking for new resources or challenges, the NextGen Summit is where you want to be. Since 2010, the two-day summit has inspired over 4,000 federal, state and local govies to be positi...

Overview: Hiring federal employees was never an easy process, and so it is especially frustrating to both line managers and HR offices when a new hire might leave after just a year or two. In today’s budget environment, with hard or soft hiring freezes, and early out and buyouts becoming ever more common, it is especially important that once a job offer has been accepted that the hiring manager be able to retain the new hire for a reaso...

This educational one-day symposium will feature cloud computing subject matter experts from the Federal government and academia participating on panels. (Cloud Summit Agenda)The MITRE-ATARC Cloud Symposium will discuss and white-board various cloud "challenge areas” and produce a White Paper with recommendations for the Federal government. The following challenge areas will be discussed: 1. DevOps vs NoOps: Managing Public Clouds2. Secur...

Overview: This one day Potomac Forum workshop will focus on taking organizational CDO/EDEs to the next level within their respective organizations, based on lessons learned and best practices. In order to be effective, CDOs require specific prerequisites or risk becoming casualties. Paramount among these is the need for an organizational data strategy. Without a well understood and organizationally accepted data strategy, governmental organiz...

We have packed our most-requested guidance into this course. The morning session will focus on making the most of your SeaPort-e contract, from industry's leading expert on the subject. Task Order Readiness: Our founder, Lee Moon-Griffo will lead you on a deep-dive into what preparedness really means, and what you must do NOW to be ready to win Anatomy of a Win: Give laser-like focus to your BD efforts. Learn to identify opportunities with the...

Overview: On January 20, 2017 there will be a new President of the United States, but beneath the surface the transition period really has already begun. The last year of a President’s term poses both great dangers and opportunities for career civil servants, and the higher rank of those civil servants, the greater are both the opportunities and the risks. As outgoing political appointees focus intensely on both getting a new job outsid...