This event is sold out! We have scheduled a second session on Thursday, January 20th. On October 7, 2010, the U.S. Small Business Administration published a final rule effective February 4, 2011, aimed at expanding federal contracting opportunities for women-owned small businesses (WOSBs). The Final Rule sets forth procedures authorized by the Small Business Act to help ensure a level playing field on which WOSBs can compete for Federal contr...

Learn what is covered by the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act at this four-hour webcast. Topics include how to identify and accurately report OSHA hazardous chemicals, CERCLA hazardous substances, and extremely hazardous substances at your facility. You will also learn how to determine whether the Tier II inventory reporting requirements apply to your site and how to complete the form. To help your reporting go smoothly, you...

In the last ten years, the number of data centers has more than tripled. With the mandated consolidation policy put into effect in February 2010, departments are beginning to follow recently developed roadmaps for shrinking server farms. The aim of this consolidation policy is to reduce IT costs, lower energy consumption, occupy less real estate, strengthen IT security and expand the use of cloud computing. While there is no set timeline to co...

Do More with PDF Forms and Documents Join Adobe and Carahsoft for a complimentary webcast to discover how you can extend your document- and form-based processes outside your organization to better engage with constituents and colleagues, using software you already own! With Adobe LiveCycle Reader Extensions, the Army Corps of Engineers can quickly and easily activate functionality within Adobe Reader, enabling end users to save data locally, a...

Simplified Acquisitions. How do they play into your strategy?What exactly is a Simplified Acquisition and why do they matter? How do you pursue these opportunities and are you familiar with how agencies advertise them? Were you aware procurements conducted under Simplified Acquisition Procedures (SAP) actually favor small businesses?During FY2010, twenty federal agencies issued more than 585,000 Simplified Acquisition contract actions totaling...

If your facility generates hazardous waste, you must comply with detailed regulatory requirements for waste characterization, container marking and labeling, waste minimization, manifesting, transportation, emergency response, and land disposal certification. EPA and state regulations require annual hazardous waste management training. At this two-day class you will learn the latest requirements of the law and how to comply. This course will t...

Security in the Federal Cloud Enhance Datacenter and Cloud Security with Virtualization Virtualization is disrupting assumptions about how security is deployed and operated in data centers and in the cloud. While many of the same basic principles of IT security apply in virtual environments as they do in physical ones, virtualization offers some key additional benefits for securing IT infrastructure, such as: Reducing the interfaces and the at...

The Atlantic and Government Executive invite you to join us for our inaugural Cybersecurity Forum, featuring conversations on the intersection of security and technology and addressing the most urgent issues around cyber innovation and its impact in the public and private sectors. The forum will convene the foremost experts in technology, defense, intelligence and geostrategic issues for candid and lively discussions about the current state of...

The increasing level of combat system integration and communications requirements, coupled with shrinking defense budgets and shorter product life cycles, offers many challenges and opportunities in the design and acquisition of new combat systems. This three-day course teaches the systems engineering discipline that has built some of the modern military’s greatest combat and communications systems, using state-of-the-art systems enginee...