Across our nation we are seeing dramatic changes in the demographics of our communities. Our target audiences are changing. To communicate effectively we need to rethink our strategies and make diversity and inclusion part of our communications DNA. Preeti will share with us the unique award-winning strategies created and implemented by the city of Renton, Washington, to build an inclusive and informed city with opportunities for all.

Speaker Series (Breakfast) - Category Management: Impacts on Industry Dates: 20 – 20 Jul, 2016 APMP-NCA July Speaker Series Breakfast Category Management: Impacts on Industry July 20, 7:00 AM, Westin Tysons Corner Category management is an approach the federal government is implementing to buy smarter and more efficiently. However, this strategy poses risks to contractors as single and multiple award contracts are consolidated government...

As required by The Cybersecurity Act of 2015, the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) is conducting a study on threats relating to the security of the mobile devices used by the federal government and will submit to Congress a report detailing the study’s findings and recommendations. Through a Request for Information (RFI) call, the government is soliciting input on products, services capabilitie...

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...

Gartner predicts that more than 80 percent of organizations have failed to develop a consolidated data security policy across silos, leading to potential noncompliance, security breaches and financial liabilities. Recent White House cybersecurity policies and congressional legislation mandate that federal agencies implement capabilities to protect high value assets and sensitive information and to encrypt or otherwise render indecipherable to...

Hyperconvergence delivers an enterprise solution that natively collapses core storage, compute and data protection components into a single, scalable building block for your entire agency. Budget requirements for the government have forced officials to look towards data center consolidation for multiple benefits - reducing the overall number of government data centers, decreasing overall spend on IT, increasing mission agility and improving op...

How to Get Data Mining Off the Ground and Into OrbitA Free 90-Minute Live, Interactive Web EventProduced by The Modeling Agency“Guidance & Results for the Data-Rich, Yet Information-Poor”Presented by TMA Senior Consulting StaffWHAT'S COVEREDThe vast majority of BI professionals are excited about the prospects of data mining and predictive analytics, but are fully mystified about where to begin or even how to prepare. Of those w...

Join the ACT-IAC Small Business Alliance on Thursday July 14th, for the ACT-IAC 'Small Business Growth Symposium: Strategies and Opportunities for the Future' to get comprehensive guidance for small businesses to adapt to the complex workings of the government's evolving ecosystem. Today, many Government IT Initiatives are centered on technology advancements, agile and quick turn ‘solutioning’, and early adoption. This is driving c...

Incorporating draft OMB Circular A-123 requirements that defines management’s responsibility for internal control with an emphasis on integrating Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)This workshop is limited to government employees only to permit candid discussion In anticipation of the revised OMB Circular No. A-123 being issued early in Calendar Year 2016, this will be an advanced level internal control workshop focusing on the draft requi...

Delivering Next-Gen Threat ProtectionAs government embraces digital innovation, so do our cyber adversaries. Agencies must tackle the ever-changing threat landscape with next-gen cyber strategies. From the exponential increase of endpoints to new Federal mandates, agencies need to restructure and expand security strategies to detect and prevent cyberattacks.Join leading government, cyber, and industry professionals for an interactive one-day c...