Join WBB for lunch and networking while top DHS procurement and small business executives share their insight on how businesses can increase their presence within DHS. The following topics will be covered: How to leverage Small businesses in order to win DHS contracts Challenges and opportunities faced by small businesses How to enable collaboration between Large and Small businesses Small and large business contracting and partnering strategi...

Big Data is exponential growth of data being collected today. Last year IBM reported that 2.5 exabytes of data was being created on a daily basis. As massive amounts of information become more readily available, the government has the opportunity to transform this data into intelligence, enabling agencies to make better decisions and meet their mission objectives. In today’s budget-constrained environment, a Big Data strategy can help go...

“Advancing Operational Energy to Ensure Readiness, Efficiency, and Stability” The DoD is the biggest institutional energy consumer in the world, with over 75% deriving from “operational energy” (OE): the energy required for training, moving, and sustaining military forces and weapons platforms for military operations. Reducing the cost of power and energy needs is critical to the mission success across the Services. Wit...

Please Join Jennifer Schaus & Associates & Over 200 Government Contractors at The John F Kennedy Center for a HOLIDAY NETWORKING EVENT. ATTIRE: Formal or Business (NO JEANS) All Ticket Sales Are FINAL John F Kennedy Center - Terrace Level - KC Cafe

The Intersection of Customer Service and Security in the Cloud For the past two years, agencies have been making the jump to the cloud. Many first made the jump to the cloud for back-office systems, such as email or Web hosting. But more recently, agencies are seeing value in putting mission critical IT systems in the cloud. At the same time, federal chief information officers still are coming to terms with how cloud providers secure their pub...

Government Cloud Brokerage: Who, What, Where, When, Why? The Administration’s establishment of the Cloud First policy opens the door for agencies to take full advantage of cloud computing in order to maximize capacity utilization, improve IT flexibility and responsiveness, and minimize cost. As agencies seek to combine different cloud services or legacy systems, they need a seamless form of integration. The result is the exploration of C...

Earlier this year, President Obama instituted Executive Order 13636 - Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity. The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) was tasked to provide the White House recommendations for prudent next steps to mitigate the risks this Executive Order addresses. In an effort to promote a more holistic approach to risk mitigation, GSA worked directly with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Department of...

The Federal Cloud Computing Summit: Innovators of Ubiquitous IT will be held on Tuesday, December 17, 2013 at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C. Keith Trippie (DHS) and Greg Mundell (InfoZen) will serve as Co-Chairs of the premier government technology symposium for federal government and private sector professionals to explore and discuss the latest tools, trends and strategies driving the adoption o...

Biometrics Analytics, Big Data and Biometric-Enabled Intelligence— Next-Generation Capabilities and Opportunities The proliferation of new collection devices, a range of new developments in recognition technologies, innovative approaches to sensor and data fusion, and the emergence of powerful analytic tools give defense, intelligence, homeland security, and law enforcement officials important new capabilities to carry out their missions...

Federal Sales Boot Camp The Federal Government consistently misses its Small Business Goals... Yet, it's difficult for Small Businesses to break into Government Agencies. What’s up with that? The truth is that there is less than "full and open competition" as you might initially interpret it to mean. It is vital to understand the government contracting environment as it actually operates. This includes both the written and unwritten rul...