Date: Thu, Dec 4, 2014 2:00 PM EST Duration: 1 Hour Accreditation: 1 CPE Cost: Complimentary Cloud-Driven Data Insights in Government Proactively addressing priorities and mitigating risk requires that leaders and staff have reliable access to all information so they can make decisions and swiftly respond to changing conditions. To enable this, agencies need to effectively manage several aspects of their Big Data—from how they store grow...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP) will present O&M Best Practices for Small Scale PV Systems, a live First Thursday Seminar on December 4, 2014, from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. This new First Thursday Seminar will feature a new training format with enhanced features that include hands-on video demos, audience polling and Q&A, and links to additional resources and downloadable documents. The seminar w...

With a continuing resolution set to expire during the lame duck and a new Congress heading to town soon after, budget negotiations are again in the Washington spotlight. With a Republican Congress looking to flex its newfound muscle and a President working to ensure his legacy, what’s in store for federal procurement in 2015 and beyond? Join experts from Bloomberg Government and the Coalition for Government Procurement for a look ahead a...

The purpose of this 2-hour seminar is to raise the awareness for individuals who will be interacting with Agile teams. This will lay the foundation for introducing the Agile process and lend better understanding for how roles and interactions may be impacted by an Agile transformation. After taking this seminar, attendees will understand the theory and application of Agile principles, recognize the distinctions between Agile and traditional de...

Please join us as Jennifer Schaus & Associates with Pepper Hamliton LLP present a workshop on The GSA Schedule Proposal Learn how the GSA Schedule can be an asset or liability to your company; Advantages and Disadvantages of using it; How it affects your pricing and margins; Staying compliant with the Terms/Conditions; Passing GSA "inspections"; Meeting GSA sales quotas; and more... Learn how to Comply, Compete and Win! Coffee and Breakfa...

COMPLIMENTARY BRIEFING The Watchful Eye: Mitigating Risk in the Cloud Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2014 Time: 8:00 - 10:30 AMCost: Complimentary Credits: 3 CPEs/CEUs Focus: Government agencies are adopting a Cloud First approach to do more with existing resources while rapidly opening up new ways to meet citizens’ demands to engage with agencies online. Using a pay-as-you-go model, agencies can now access a broad portfolio of middleware...

AFCEA Bethesda’s Seventh Health IT Day is expected to bring together more than 600 senior-executives and IT professionals from across industry and federal agencies such as the Department of Health and Human Services, the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense. The goals of the event are to foster bett...

The annual AFCEA Washington, DC Winter Gala is the highly anticipated, must-attend social event of the year for senior leaders from the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, Armed Services, intelligence agencies and industry. The gala, in its 39th year, will feature savory bites, delicious drinks, carolers, The Strolling Strings, and much more. Tickets are now available for this widely-attended black-tie affair to be hel...

STRANSCOM's Acquisition Directorate, Distribution Process Owner (DPO) Division, will be conducting the 4th Annual Information Technology (IT) and Advisory and Assistance Services (A&AS) Industry Day meeting. An overview of upcoming procurements for the IT and A&AS programs will be presented in the morning. The Government will also be conducting one-on-one break-out sessions for each program in the afternoon. Please continue to monitor...

Records and Information Management in the Federal Government has reached a tipping point in how information is created, managed, and retired or ultimately destroyed. With pressures on agencies reaching new levels of volumes and content types for both physical and digital records, and government initiatives intersecting at critical deadlines, agencies need to think differently about the future of their information management programs. Re-defini...