Overview: Hiring federal employees was never an easy process, and so it is especially frustrating to both line managers and HR offices when a new hire might leave after just a year or two. In today’s budget environment, with hard or soft hiring freezes, and early out and buyouts becoming ever more common, it is especially important that once a job offer has been accepted that the hiring manager be able to retain the new hire for a reaso...

Join Google and Carahsoft to discuss the real meaning of FedRAMP certification and review the techniques and strategies you can leverage to improve security in your organization. This session will be led by Google's experts in customer security configuration and government certification and accreditation. Agenda: 09:30am to 10:00am - Meet & Greet with refreshments10:00am to 10:15am - Introduction10:15am to 11:00am - FedRAMP, What it Means...

Join us for a two-hour seminar and demonstration of HPE Application Defender. Application Defender is application self-protection made easy. Managed from the cloud or implemented in your own data center, the application self-protection solution enables you to defend, in minutes, new and existing software vulnerabilities in production software. Without waiting to change the application’s code, you can immediately stop attacks. And with mo...

At the core, an oral presentation is about conveying trust to the audience in a personal and confident manner—people buy from whom they know and trust. Technical facts, data and other information are secondary considerations. All good presenters know that the main goal is to engage with their audience as to make them feel that they are connected to the presenter and the information they are conveying. On March 31, the Government Contract...

Agency leaders and managers have responded to the President’s Management Agenda on People and Culture by taking active steps to improve how employees engage with their jobs, organizations, and missions. In 2015, more than 400,000 employees participated in the Office of Personnel Management Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey. Results point to important topics to consider for improvement in the upcoming year. A number of occupations have be...

The 2016 Hill AFB Technology Expo hosted by the AFCEA Wasatch Chapter is an excellent opportunity to interact with key personnel from this important air force base. 300 personnel attended the 2015 event and we expect the 2016 expo to grow even larger. Promotional efforts for Hill will be far reaching but the focus will be on the Air Logistics Center’s Directorates and the 75th ABW’s tenant commands and units. Technology Vendors who...

Federal IT leaders know the benefits cloud computing can provide, from enabling innovation and faster deployment of application to more available, reliable, scalable and flexible operations. Yet despite understanding these benefits and federal mandates that strongly urge the use of cloud computing whenever possible, many agencies aren’t nearly as invested in the cloud as they want to be. Indeed, according to an annual survey of senior fe...

The Service Contract Act is one of the most technically challenging aspects of competing for the award of, and successfully administering a federal service contract. This course is the nation's only SCA training conducted with the Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division, and is designed to help companies navigate the SCA from several different angles. SCA sets minimum pay and benefit rates for many service occupations. Over the past six yea...

Don't scramble when the time comes. Do you know if police body camera footage is subject to the Freedom of Information Act? The use of video surveillance has dramatically increased in the past few years, both in frequency of its use and the types of technology available. These videos are at the center of public debate and dispute in high profile police investigations, and a large component is the determination of whether to release these video...

All course materials and handouts will be provided to students on CD ROM. Please bring a laptop computer that is equipped with a CD ROM with you to the class. If you do not have access to a laptop, please contact the respective meeting planner as soon as possible. There will be a limited number of laptops available for use through NDIA, so please call early. Overview The Defense Systems Acquisition Management course meets the needs of defense...