With the current headlines regarding government email retention and e-discovery, it is important to understand how the deadlines will impact your agency. This one-day Potomac Forum Workshop will focus on the activities mandated by the NARA/OMB Records Management Directive. Key executives from NARA and government agencies will discuss the directive and its implementation. Detailed review and analysis of the directive will be presented to help...

A One-Day Event Dedicated to the Major Developments in Federal Contracting! Only Offered Once a Year! New Topics and Location This Year! As one of our most popular events, Annual Review: Hot Issues in Federal Contracting provides everything you need to stay current in the ever-changing field of government contracts. Use this day-long event as a refresher on the developments in contracting over the past year and as an opportunity to network wit...

OMB, DHS, Department of Defense (DoD), Committee of National Security Systems (CNSS), and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made major advances in improving the security of Federal information technology (IT) systems. They have created new standards, processes, and solutions that are streamlining and automating security and moving us closer to the goal of total near-real-time security awareness. At the end of this...

In 2014 an announcement was made with plans to embark upon a new paradigm for purchasing by moving from managing purchases and prices individually across thousands of procurement units, to managing entire categories of common spend and total cost. The intention is to apply the principles of Category Management – used extensive in industry and other countries – to the Federal acquisition process. This is intended to be more than jus...

The Military Health System is the backbone of health readiness for the Department of Defense. This global health care organization is responsible for both maintaining a medically ready force and for providing a ready medical force that is prepared to respond to the full spectrum of military operations. Join us for an in-depth discussion with experts from Booz Allen Hamilton. We’ll explore a new perspective on how the medical centers, hos...

Information security training in Scottsdale from SANS Institute, the global leader in information security training. SANS is returning to Arizona, February 20-25, for SANS Scottsdale 2017! Choose from eight hands-on, immersion-style security training courses all taught by real-world practitioners. All are aligned with GIAC certifications and several courses will prepare you or your technical staff for DoD 8570. SANS is looking forward to retur...

DESCRIPTION Internal conflicts can be detrimental to your company morale and business results. Having the skills to resolve internal conflicts effectively is one of the biggest challenges in today’s business world and is vital to success. Our Leading Through Conflict Leadership Lab provides practical strategies for interpersonal conflict resolution in the workplace and helps you change your attitude and behavior so you can minimize confl...

Key Take-Aways: The most negotiated terms and conditions in federal government contracting, How risk postures vary for terms and conditions, Risk management techniques for terms and conditions, and Risk management strategies for terms and conditions.

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...

The premier naval conference and exposition on the West Coast, WEST is now in its 27th year of bringing military and industry leaders together. Co-sponsored by AFCEA International and the U.S. Naval Institute, WEST is the foremost event in which the makers of platforms and the designers of technologies can network, discuss and demonstrate their solutions in a single locale. To complete their missions successfully, more than 150,000 professiona...