SANS returns to San Diego on May 7-16 for SANS Security West 2013 with the best security training money can buy! At SANS Security West, you have the opportunity to take courses from the SANS top instructors, our real-world practitioners who are the best at ensuring you not only learn the material, but that you can apply it immediately when you return to the office.Choose from these outstanding SANS Courses that prepare you for almost any of th...

LEARN WHAT MANAGERS & PRACTITIONERS REALLY NEEDTO KNOW ABOUT PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS & DATA MININGGet up to speed in data mining faster and more effectively than with any other training program available. Leverage highly valuable and impactful prospective insight from within your existing data through an intensive course series with over 20 years of innovation.If you want to learn what really works in predictive modeling and why you shoul...

New Mexico Veterans Business Advocates in conjunction with VPAC (Veteran Procurement Assistance Center) and The New Mexico Dept. of Veteran Affairs are sponsoring a Veterans Business and Employment Expo on Thursday, May 9th 2013. The Expo will provide an opportunity for New Mexico VOB’s and SDVOB’s to network with private, public, and goverment agencies for the purpose of locating and obtaining contracts. This Expo will also be an...

Spend 90 minutes with a practicing professional—a contractor selling commercial items to the U.S. government, directly and indirectly. Learn from years of research and practice on how to navigate and negotiate commercial items and pricing. Hear the answers to the questions asked by buyers. Apply the principles and resources provided to leverage your commercial product or service. Participants will learn about: The presenters, experienced...

Achieving Real Success with Hadoop Although Hadoop shows great promise for managing Big Data, many organizations are still struggling to decide which parts of the Hadoop ecosystem to adopt in order to obtain/elicit the greatest value. A key concern is how to avoid performance and data security issues so that your agency/organization isn’t spending valuable time and resources on what ultimately turns out to be little more than a developme...

Attend an upcoming National Contract Management Association (NCMA) National Education Seminar! The COR Member of the Acquisition Team: The Contracting Officer's Representative (COR) Guide to Performance and Quality The "COR Member of the Acquisition Team” National Education Seminar (NES) is designed to better illustrate the important role that the contracting officer’s representative (COR) plays in ensuring that the contract specia...

With the global call for sweeping budget reductions and cuts in unnecessary spending, the need to reduce printing and supplies is getting a closer look. This is understandable when studies show that organizations can save up to 65% of their total printing costs through printer consolidation.1 Printer consolidation not only saves hardware costs but also saves costs for related consumables and administration. Other benefits to printer consolidat...

Despite sequestration, tight budgets and changing workforce, all agencies are under severe pressure to meet mission goals on their critical programs while trying to improve cost, schedule and performance. Agency CIOs, Federal Program Managers and Acquisition Executives recognize what needs to be done while trying to be more agile in managing & executing programs. Learn the simple steps for achieving an effective and successful Agile Transf...

Federal Agencies are mandated by the Obama Administration’s Digital Government Strategy to use emerging technologies to effectively serve the public by procuring and managing devices, applications, and data in smart, secure and affordable ways with access to information anywhere, anytime. In response, agencies are turning to Cloud Business Intelligence for the agility and deployment flexibility of a SaaS model but still need the powerfu...

Learn how to streamline IT procurement with a free NITAAC training. Compete and manage your IT requirements quickly and easily when you choose a NITAAC Government-Wide Acquisition Contract (GWAC) . Our training specialists will demonstrate how GWACs enable you to leverage buying power, and how NITAAC's online ordering systems can increase productivity.A team of Contract and Program Specialists can help you at any point in the process, from pre...