The Government Contractors Association's (GCA) mission is to educate, facilitate, and advocate for business owners seeking government contracts. Over $500 BILLION is awarded annually in government contracts and 23% of it is allocated towards small business owners. Are you ready to learn the steps to start winning contracts? Learning "governese" (the language of government contracting) to become a successful government contractor can take years...

cf.Objective() is an annual programming conference originally hosted in Minneapolis, MN, with content geared toward mid-to-advanced-level developers. The conference is focused primarily on ColdFusion/CFML, but has grown with its audience over the years and now features talks on JavaScript - with a dedicated conference track affectionately known as js.Objective(), Java, Git, Groovy, the JVM, SQL, NoSQL and other related technologies as well. Th...

Join us from July 17-20, 2017, at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside in New Orleans, Louisiana, for Federally Employed Women's (FEW's) 48th National Training Program (NTP). The NTP is open to all employees from military, private and public sector organizations who want to climb the ladder to the next step in their career. All courses are Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Standards Aligned and target entry-level employees through senior decisi...

The goal for this course is to provide an understanding of cybersecurity leadership focused on people and not just technology and policy. It will give you an overview of frameworks to support your risk management activities. It is highly useful to any organizational executive, or leader seeking an understanding of building cybersecurity cultures and governance The word cybersecurity is thrown around, used and abused to scare people into buying...

NAGC kicks off its 2018 Encore! webinar mini-series at our July Webinar Wednesday! Blythe Campbell will present “Communication for a Change: Helping Your Leaders Talk about Change." You’ll leave the session knowing: How to build and share context around organizational change with employees. The five ways communications professionals can bring value to the change process. How to collaborate with senior leaders throughout the process.

Nearly seven years ago, the U.S. government began a mandated march to the cloud to accelerate the pace of innovation and contain costs. What about the cloud is working or not working? Are agencies fully realizing the promised cost savings? How pervasive is cloud adoption? And, what workloads are agencies putting into the cloud? A survey of 150 military, civilian and intelligence agency technology decision makers, conducted by Market Connection...

We are excited to bring our Training Bootcamp series back to the D.C. area for two days of intense CommandBox CFML training this July 2017. Do you want to transform your procedural/legacy CFML to modern times? Then this training is for you! In this training we will review the ins and outs of CommandBox so you can incorporate it as your ColdFusion companion tool. From CLI and operating system integration to ColdFusion engine management and port...

AnDevCon, July 17-19, moves to Washington DC for the first time. It remains as the leading technical conference for software developers building Android apps. Whether you are an enterprise developer, work for a commercial software company, or are driving your own start-up, you need to attend AnDevCon. Network with 800 software developers and IT managers from across the globe. Chose from more than 75 classes and tutorials and visit with top exh...

The use of mobile technologies and the evolution to the Internet of Things (IoT) is reshaping the way government executes on its mission. From smartphones and tablets that let employees work from anywhere at any time to the wide adoption of WiFi at places like the Pentagon. The Department of Homeland Security recently reported that mobile devices could become an avenue to attack back-end computer systems containing the data of millions of Amer...

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...