In 2009, President Obama signed several executive orders tasking the government to reduce energy consumption and fossil fuel useage. As the nations single largest user of energy, the government is trying to lead by example. However, a large percentage of the energy used by the government is in the 500,000 buildings that they own. In FY2008, the government spent more than $7 billion of their $24.5 billion energy bill on facilities alone. This m...

IDGA’s Tactical Vehicles Summit is proud to announce its fourth installment as the nation’s foremost tactical vehicle event addressing the strategy, procurement, challenges, and opportunities with both an exhibition floor and summit. This year’s event will focus on the challenges ahead for the MRAP, M-ATV, and FMTVs in Afghanistan, including what will be done in the coming year to address the RESET of vehicles as overseas con...

Demanding times call for best-of-breed solutions. Find them here, at BBC 2010. What is a Business Capability? ... the business know-how that enables your organization's day-to-day operations, whether in the form of business process models, business rules, decision logic, or business architectures. It's the stuff that must work, and work well, in order for your organization to thrive. You must continuously build it, evolve it, manage it, trace...

Predictive Analytics World is the business-focused event for predictive analytics professionals, managers and commercial practitioners. This conference delivers case studies, expertise and resources to achieve: Bigger wins: Strengthen the impact of predictive analytics deployment Broader capabilities: Establish new opportunities with predictive analytics Academic / Government Discount Academics and Government employees come for half price! Ge...

Last year, DoD networks suffered an onslaught of an estimated 360 million cyber attacks. As cyber attacks on US federal and commercial computer systems increase at alarming rates, the risk for national security to be compromised is also growing. Through cyber espionage and data theft, China acquired Joint Strike Fighter (JSF-35) aircraft plans. On eBay, a hard drive containing US missile defense data was for sale. Both the State of Virginia an...

The recently released Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) document has expectedly reemphasized the Department of Defense's (DoD) call for increased Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) platform, payload and supporting technology development and procurement, paving the way for a multitude of opportunities and growth potential. The QDR also reinforced Congress? December 2009 approval for full funding on the DoD’s 2010 UAS budget request, totalling...

This is not only a workshop on understanding the current state of cloud computing, it also addresses understanding your own IT requirements which dictate where and how cloud computing could be a fit with your enterprise. Cloud computing is the concept of leveraging IT assets over the Internet to provide more scalable, cost effective, and adaptable services to the organization. However, the concepts behind cloud computing reach much further. C...

The goals of Industry Day are to provide situational awareness of ITA's transformation and the future contracting environment, and to increase vendor competition. Registration starts at 9:00 a.m. The program starts at 9:30 a.m. ITA is a customer-driven organization dedicated to providing economical, reliable, and secure IT services. Our mission is to advance the mission success of the Pentagon community as well as customers located inside and...

Building on the success of the 2009 conference, the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC), premier provider of information for the defense community, will host its 36th Annual Conference. The 2010 theme is "Celebrating 65 Years of Providing Access to Defense Information", and this year's event will address DTIC's role as the Department of Defense (DoD) technical information broker. Speakers from government, private industry, and DTIC wi...