FedScoop is proud to announce the inaugural U.S. Innovation Summit that will be held on June 20, 2012 in Washington D.C. This one-of-a-kind event will bring the most innovative thought leaders in government and industry together to discuss how to harness the power of innovation to change government. The discussion will center on innovation best practices within the government to help federal leaders create a more forward-thinking federal lands...

In January, Federal CIO Steven VanRoekel declared 2012 the year of mobile government—but today, mobility itself is being transformed. The CIO Council’s new Digital Government Strategy goes beyond mobile technology to rethink the way federal agencies manage information and interact with citizens. The strategy has four components, each answering a key question: Information-Centric: How can agencies transition from managing documents...

Please join Palo Alto Networks and ThunderCat Technology for a Network Security Seminar & Happy Hour at TopGolf Alexandria on Wednesday, June 20th from 2pm- 5pm. Attend this seminar to help your staff identify the 10 things your firewall must do. After the presentation, enjoy appetizers and drinks while practicing your golf swing at this innovative, far from average driving range. Join us for the opportunity to not only improve your golf g...

This is a live webcast broadcast to your desktop computer and also available by satellite downlink. Driving BioPreferred® With The Presidential Memorandum Audience: This free seminar is ideal for all Federal employees and Federal contractors who purchase or who contract for the purchase of products and services, including Contracting Officers, Procurement Professionals, Sustainability Officers and Managers, and Technical and Program Manag...

The 2012 Stability, Security, Transition and Reconstruction Operations (SSTRO) Conference will look at stability efforts through the entire spectrum. We'll look at completed operations that show successes that are being replicated in other situations, current trouble spots, and what we can expect in the future. Although Afghanistan and Iraq will continue to be of tremendous importance and considerable challenge, there are other countries which...

Startup Weekend is testing whether its model of promoting innovation & entrepreneurship can be applied to the e-GOV / Civic Engagement vertical. We're holding our second-ever weekend-long workshop at Microsoft Friendship Heights on June 15th-17th. There will be some world-class mentors, judges, and speakers as well as real-life problems facing local and federal agencies that need to be solved. The organizers hope to see high-impact, sustai...

The Senior Leader Program is designed for senior managers in the federal government and comparable level military, state and local officials who wish to enhance their leadership potential or who are interested in preparing for the Senior Executive Service. The curriculum is based on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s Executive Core Qualifications and meets OPM’s requirement that participants in agency-specific candidate dev...

True Self-Service Access for Your Employees:Internal Portals for Accounting and A/P Thursday, June 14 at 2pm ET | 11am PT Unless you're still copying receipts into a rubber-banned ledger while wearing a green visor, you most likely provide your vendors a Vendor Portal interface into your accounting system. We use this set up to facilitate allowing them to upload invoices directly into your A/P, and provide initial GL coding. But imagine taking...

Geo Maritime Conference - Geospatial Information in The Maritime Surveillance Sector 8 Benefits to Attending Geo Maritime 2012: Get to the bottom of the latest standards and directives that impact your maritime surveillance – while submitting feedback on areas open for consultation Hear about the latest data collection and management technologies that you can leverage to achieve your core objectives Benchmark with geospatial maritime sta...

Enterprise IT's Two Biggest Game Changers Under One Roof – Cloud Computing & Big Data Join Us at Cloud Expo New York in June – Introducing Our All-New Big Data Expo! Recent IDC research shows that worldwide spending on cloud services will grow almost threefold, reaching $44.2 billion by 2013. And a recent Gartner report predicts that the volume of enterprise data overall will increase by a phenomenal 650% over the next five ye...