This live webinar will discuss the evolution of billboard regulation from Lady Bird Johnson's Highway Beautification Act through the current controversy concerning the nationwide proliferation of high intensity Commercial Electric Variable Message Signs better known as digital billboards (DBB) from rural Pennsylvania where there are three digital billboards in a one mile stretch of country road, to Chicago which approved 30 DBB for $15,000,000...

TRB’s SHRP 2 Tuesdays Webinar: Managing Risk in Rapid Renewal Contracts (R09) As part of the SHRP2 Tuesdays Webinar Series, TRB will conduct a webinar on August 20, 2013 from 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m. ET that will explore the report Managing Risk in Rapid Renewal Projects, which provides transportation agencies with tools and guidance for quantifying risks and developing a risk management process that is needed to manage all types of project...

Join Dixon Hughes Goodman partners Mark Burroughs and Bill Walter as we co-host Demystifying Cost Accounting Standards with the Public Contracting Institute. This 4-part virtual classroom series is designed to provide a basic understanding of how to work within the fundamental requirements of the Cost Accounting Standards (CAS) in understandable, easy to understand plain English business terms. The Cost Accounting Standards were designed to pr...

The CRYOCO LLC Cryogenic Engineering and Safety Course has been presented annually for 30 years for individuals and company individuals in place of the full priced on-site course offerings by contract that require 20 to 35 attendees. The class is 5-Days and is an in-depth class that covers all aspects of cryogenics from Thermodynamics, Basic Fluids Principles, Materials, Equipment, Design, Vacuum, Referigeration and Cryocoolers, and a full Cry...

The North Carolina Gang Investigators Association (NCGIA) is scheduled to host our 12th annual Gangs Across the Carolinas conference and the Gang Free North Carolina (GFNC) conference August 13th – 15th, 2013 at the Sheraton Greensboro at Four Seasons in Greensboro, North Carolina. Please feel free to visit our website at www.ncgangcops.org The NCGIA conference is open to local, state and federal law enforcement officials who have been t...

Most impacts to wetlands, stream and other waters (i.e., aquatic resources) occurring from development activities, like a road crossing or construction of a utility corridor, require permits from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). Typically impacts greater than 0.1 acres in size require mitigation to compensate for authorized impacts. After advancing mitigation guidance for several decades in their regulatory programs, the USACE and U.S...

This live audio conference will describe Section 6409(a) of the 2012 Middle Class Tax Relief Act, 47 U.S.C. § 1455(a), which relaxes state and local approvals for cell tower collocations and other wireless tower modifications. We will describe the many legal and technical issues under this new statute, including what towers are covered, what modifications are covered and which of the many state and local laws (zoning, codes, environmental...

Learn first hand about the many new changes just announced to CPIC! In late April 2011, OMB introduced two new forms, the Exhibit 300 (a) and Exhibit 300 (b) which comprise a new model for the Administration's pulse check on investment health and performance. The Introduction to CPIC and a Review of the Exhibit 300s seminar introduces the changes to the process and introduces the new Exhibits, "Capital Asset Summary and Performance Measurement...

LEARN WHAT MANAGERS & PRACTITIONERS REALLY NEEDTO KNOW ABOUT PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS & DATA MININGGet up to speed in data mining faster and more effectively than with any other training program available. Leverage highly valuable and impactful prospective insight from within your existing data through an intensive course series with over 20 years of innovation.If you want to learn what really works in predictive modeling and why you shoul...

Overview of the Workshop: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released a complete rewrite of Special Publication (SP) 800-124, Guidelines for Managing the Security of Mobile Devices in the Enterprise, on June 24, 2013. Mobile device security has changed dramatically in the last few years, particularly with the rise of bring your own device (BYOD) technologies. This Potomac Forum Workshop is presented to help government an...