Government-sanctioned projects are expected to meet more meticulous compliance requirements than any other type of project. With every step of project planning and execution eligible for audit, a project team must be confident that each internal evaluation accurately confirms continued compliance. Deltek Acumen software makes the process of ensuring that a project is following federal compliance guidelines, such as the DCMA 14-Point Assessment...

The Census Bureau’s Privacy Compliance Branch of the Policy Coordination Office is hosting a Data Protection and Privacy Day on January 28. This event is intended to provide a forum for Census employees and contractors to discuss current data protection and privacy policy and to generate ideas to help evolve the current policies . The event will feature various participants from the U.S. Census Bureau as well as other government agencies...

The NIH Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center (NITAAC) offers free training sessions for procurement teams who purchase information technology products, services and solutions. Each attendee earns 2 CLPs when you learn about our Government-Wide Acquisition Contracts (GWACs): ECSIII for products, CIO-SP3 for services/solutions and CIO-SP3 Small Business for services/solutions with socioeconomic set-asides. NITAAC is only OMB...

Recordkeeping: The Devil Really is in the Details Companies are under the gun to reduce paper and go electronic, so how do you go about re-creating paper files in the digital world? How can you maintain important paperwork about any given export transaction that you may need to refer to five years down the road? What do you really need to keep and why? This webinar will address this critically important topic of importance to Export Compliance...

As technology continues to permeate nearly every area of daily life, citizen expectations for interacting with government entities are shifting. Citizens today want a personalized, multi-channel experience when interacting with government services. In this webinar, featured speaker Ruthbea Clarke, Research Director of the global Smart Cities Strategies program at IDC, will address how to build a robust citizen engagement strategy through digit...

Just how much do you know about your enterprise resource planning (ERP) and its effect on your business? Contrary to popular belief, ERPs are not “one size fits all,” and many companies are using systems that aren’t right for their type of business. This is especially true among companies that execute projects for their customers. Project-Based ERP for Dummies introduces the basic concepts of ERP systems that are intended to...

With Deltek Cobra, Deltek’s Cost and Earned Value Management Software, it’s easy to solve the challenges that could potentially put you in hot water with the government. Deltek Cobra is an easy-to-use, powerful system for managing project costs, measuring earned value and analyzing budgets, actuals and forecasts. Complete with an intuitive interface, helpful wizards and government compliance reporting, Deltek's Earned Value Managem...

Government Cloud Brokerage: Who, What, When, Where, Why? Presented by FedInsider, WTOP, and Federal News Radio 1500 AM, this complimentary one-hour video training webinar will explore the Administration’s establishment of the Cloud First policy and how agencies are taking full advantage of cloud computing in order to maximize capacity utilization, improve IT flexibility and responsiveness, and minimize cost. As agencies seek to combine...

6 Mistakes You're Making By Using "Public Cloud"-Based File Sync & Share for Government Business 1. Trusting The Public Cloud. You or others in your agency are already using applications like Google Drive and Dropbox to share business documents because those services are easy to use. But your colleagues may be jeopardizing security, especially from within government offices. You should limit users from taking files of any classification to...

Overview of the Workshop: Cloud Computing and FedRAMP-Unwrapped is a one-day, in-depth,educational program for Government Executives, Managers, Program Managers and Staff & Industry Partners. This event is not a vender oriented conference, but a course that provides practical information for the Government and Industry on cloud security, the Federal Governments FedRAMP program and what agency leaders should be doing now. Potomac Forum is A...