Honoring our WarriorsAFCEA NOVA 36th Anniversary Black Tie Tribute to Warriors Our Nation's Warriors defend our freedoms at home and abroad. Many of our young men and women have suffered deep physical wounds; wounds they will carry for the rest of their lives. Please join us on 13 February 2016 for an evening of elegance to honor our Warriors. Our Guests of Honor will be service members currently undergoing treatment at Walter Reed National Mi...

Are "Low Price, Technically Acceptable" (LPTA) bids pushing you out of the Federal market? Here's how to push back in! Join us to learn from our Special Guest, Marsha Lindquist, how focusing your pricing strategy and looking at your right combination of ingredients could help you win more Federal business . You'll learn: 1. The most costly LPTA mistakes and how to avoid them. 2. How to evolve your project life cycle costs for profit. 3. When a...

The government’s current IT trajectory is not sustainable, and DOD and other agencies must modernize their systems to make use of new data available to them, handle current and future security threats and maximize their returns on IT investments. The government spends about 80 percent of its $80-plus billion IT budget on legacy systems, leaving precious few resources available to modernize systems and test, develop and keep pace with ne...

Companies looking to do IT business with the federal government need to understand how to do business with the General Services Administration’s Office of Integrated Technology Services. ITS manages some of the most important governmentwide acquisition contracts in the federal market. That includes IT Schedule 70, which accounts for more than $14 billion in annual sales of products and services; the highly-anticipated, Enterprise Infrast...

How to Get Data Mining Off the Ground and Into OrbitA Free One-Hour Live, Interactive Web EventProduced by The Modeling Agency“Guidance & Results for the Data-Rich, Yet Information-Poor”Presented by TMA Senior Consulting Staffhttp://www.the-modeling-agency.com/data-mining-webinarWHAT'S COVEREDThe vast majority of BI professionals are excited about the prospects of data mining and predictive analytics, but are fully mystified ab...

This First Thursday Update will provide current information on the 2016 Federal Energy and Water Management Awards, which recognize individuals and organizations for significantly improving energy and water efficiency in Government operations. Join this update to learn how to apply for this prestigious honor in 2016, including information on submission criteria and deadlines.

All the data in the world is useless if you can’t manage it.With as many as 200 billion internet-connected sensors and devices expected by 2020, we’re fast approaching a world of big data – the Internet of Everything – but making the most of it requires advances in data governance.For federal agencies, this explosion of data represents both a major challenge and opportunity: How can they ensure the availability, usabil...

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...

About the Splunk Fundamentals Bootcamp – Designed as an introduction to the capabilities, interface and basic search and reporting of Splunk. Emphasis is placed on investigation and discovery through demos and hands-on labs culminating in a customized situational dashboard. Previous experience with Splunk is not required. Where: Live Hands-on WebEx WebinarWhen: Check the GTRI Events Page for upcoming Bootcamps. Time: Wednesdays 11 a.m. ...

You've just found the "perfect" opportunity on www.fbo.gov, or someone sent you an RFP notice in your email today! (Okay, the lead time is a little short, but, boy, this is right up your alley.) Sound familiar? This really happened last week to our guest, Anne Chambers, CEO of Red212 out of Cincinnati. She'll join me and we'll take you through that experience. She'll share her thinking, and you can vote on what YOU would have done! Get the who...