Webinar training on GSA Advantage: This course is open to civilian or military personnel. This course will demonstrate how to use the GSA Advantage! and provide step-by-step instructions on the various ways to conduct search in the system, submit an order, register, maintain profile data, and the system features available for market research ensuring a streamlined ordering process. Attending this training will also give you 1 CLP point. By usi...

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...

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...

Federal Financial Systems Summit* FREE for AGA Government MembersAGA is hosting a complimentary* event that brings together federal financial managers and private sector executives for the fourth year to discuss the near-term and future prospects of federal financial management systems in a budget-constrained environment. $100 for non-AGA member government professionals (Join Now! Membership for an ENTIRE year is $90 which includes other compl...

The NIH Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center, NITAAC, is now holding free trainings for all those involved in the purchase of information technology products, services and solutions. Earn 2 CLPs as you learn about our government-wide acquisition contracts (GWACs): ECS III for products, CIO-SP3 for services/solutions and CIO-SP3 Small Business for services/solutions with socioeconomic set-asides. You’ll find NITAAC GWA...

Since 1970, the National Environmental Policy Act has been the cornerstone for environmental protection in the United States. To implement NEPA, federal agencies must prepare environmental impact statements or environmental assessments to study the impacts of their proposed actions. Unfortunately, some federal agencies, their consultants and affected citizens do not fully understand the regulations, legal interpretations and practices for pro...

Eliminating the Pitfalls: Steps to Virtualization in Government Presented by FedInsider, WTOP, and Federal News Radio 1500 AM, this complimentary one-hour video training webinar will explore how agencies are tackling the pitfalls inherent in virtualization to fulfill Administration initiatives like cloud adoption, data center consolidation, .greening of I.T., and telework. Virtualization is at the heart of these programs, and government...

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...

COURSE #004 Distance Learning Individual Price $595COR Level III Refresher Course (Credits: 40 CLP) This course meets all the FAI requirements for the 5-day COR Refresher course granting 40 CLP credits toward COR re-certification for level II and level III personnel who have not been able to acquire he required 40 hours of training over the required two years. This course provides information on recent procurement changes, laws, and advanced c...