The Service Contract Labor Standards (SCLS), formerly the Service Contract Act, is one of the most challenging acts in federal contracting, and it is surrounded by a lot of misinformation. Our attorneys and instructors know the law.How Our Course Is Different:This is not a seminar taught by bureaucrats obligated to preach the DOL party-line. Centre’s program is taught by expert lawyers who offer real-world, practical advice. Our instru...

Identity and Access Management (IAM) platforms are necessary to consolidate and centrally manage user information. However, the enforcement of user access control during run time is where most IAM platforms fall short of being able to thwart attack and mitigate compromise.Identity-based compromises are almost weekly news headlines and many of the breaches have common characteristic of the underlying architecture that makes these environments s...

Please join us Tuesday, May 1st for our inaugural Tableau Texas Summit. This event is hosted by Tableau and sponsored by the Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) as part of the Technology Today Series (TTS). DIR will award continuing education credits. This one-day educational event explores which trends are poised to fundamentally shift Business Intelligence (BI) in the coming year and how you can take advantage of these changes. W...

This 2-day course explores principles developed over the last twenty years in the “social behavior” arena. The same concepts that effect positive social engineering are duplicated in designing inhabited spaces to cause people to do what you want them to do. Students will learn to design “from the curb inward” and incorporate overlapping threat prevention principles. We also look at crime and terrorist activity and their...

A compliant and high-scoring proposal starts with a well-thought-out outline. This course dives into the intricacies of developing proposal outlines, annotating these outlines, preparing compliance and cross-reference matrixes, and preparing storyboards or work packages the right way. It starts with analyzing different types of Requests for Proposal (RFP) and Requests for Quote (RFQ) formats to show how various customers may organize the requi...

Enterprise Architecture has become one of the pillars of the federal IT world to help make operations run smoothly, seamlessly and maneuver easily. No matter what technology is touted, or how service oriented and agile the applications are -- especially cloud-based or SAAS environments -- technology systems must be designed and implemented to support the business or mission and enable processes. If integrated IT systems don't work or fail, the...

Congratulations on your new leadership role! Take a second to celebrate - now, let's get to work. Leadership is one of the most important, influential, and inspirational activities we can perform. Learn seven major points from an experienced, successful leader in this highly interactive session. Key Takeaways: An understanding of the roles and expectations of leaders - and acknowledgement of the privilege of leadershipSeven pragmatic, easy-to...

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) is the United Nations' specialized agency responsible for the safety and security of shipping, and the prevention of marine pollution by ships. It is the preeminent forum for global maritime safety, security, pollution prevention, human considerations and legal affairs, as well as facilitation of ship to port interface, technical issues and audit schemes. But how did this organization start, and ho...

This webinar goes beyond the basics! Join experts Barbara Kinosky and David Warner for an informative, interactive and very witty advanced 90-minute webinar covering complex issues in the Service Contract Labor Standards (formerly SCA.) Learn about conformances, retroactive application of the act, equitable adjustments, DOL investigations, and price adjustments. Understand current audit focus issues and how to make it right if you got it wrong.

While many Federal organizations are moving aggressively to lower monthly portfolio data center costs by leveraging public and private cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offerings to run legacy virtual machines, this approach does not take full advantage of the potential benefits of a cloud architecture. Cloud-native development reconstructs an application in a target cloud ecosystem, and calls upon cloud services inherent in the cloud e...