Being competitive in an LPTA environment can be difficult for many in the government contracting market. With the government contracting climate changing, there is no such thing as business as usual. The federal government’s reduction in budgetary spending and an overall shift in organizational leadership have led to a historical increase in ‘creative pricing”. Businesses are struggling to win AND remain afloat in this Lowest...

SSL Break and Inspect Join F5 Networks and Carahsoft to earn (ISC)2 CPE credits and discuss how to create an SSL/TLS strategy for Application Cybersecurity protection in the Datacenter. Learn which SSL/TLS standards are necessary to meet the new DoD requirements and how to increase application performance, security, and reliability with an SSL/TLS design. During this Cybersecurity TechTalk, you will: Learn about building SSL/TLS designs to mit...

The National Center for Health Statistics will hold its 2015 National Conference on Health Statistics at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel and Conference Center in North Bethesda, MD, August 24–26, 2015. The conference will include a 1-day Learning Institute consisting of hands-on and lecture formats. Participants will receive hands-on training in accessing and analyzing survey data and explore learning modules on how to use selected dat...

At this time last year, many government agencies were still in the Internet of Things (IoT) “discovery phase,” trying to understand how the connected network of devices and sensors could be used to provide better services to citizens, increase employee productivity or improve situational awareness. Fast forward one year, and agencies at the federal, state and local level are starting to leverage the technology in new and unique way...

Leading Change TogetherChairman: Lance SpitznerSummit: August 19Training: August 17 - 18 & 20-25 Don't miss the opportunity to learn from your peers on how to build next generation security awareness programs at the SANS Security Awareness Summit in Philadelphia. Hear security awareness officers share inside knowledge on how they took their awareness programs to the next level and how they measured the impact. In addition, you will have th...

Information security training in San Antonio from SANS Institute, the global leader in information security training. SANS proudly brings to San Antonio hands-on, immersion-style cybersecurity training courses taught by real-world practitioners. SANS instructors are industry professionals who will ensure that you not only learn the material, but that you will also be able to apply what you learn your first day back in the office. The site of S...

ABOUT THIS COURSE This two-day course will prepare functional managers and analytic practitioners to finally make sense of data analytics and take control of the analytic process. “Transforming Data to Decisions” develops core skills for data analytics and lays the foundation for data-intensive analytic projects that deliver insight, clarity, confidence and actionable decision support. Attendees will learn the four major types of p...

Be sure to join us August 18-20, 2015, for the DBIA/SAME Federal Project Delivery Symposium at the Omni Shoreham in Washington, DC. Be a part of the hundreds of industry leaders and government agency personnel, including from GSA, NASA, National Guard, Air Force, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Dept. of Energy, Dept. of Veterans Affairs and Homeland Security, who attended the 2014 Federal Symposium. With 20 percent of attendees representing gove...

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 reasonable perio...

How to prepare, administer and handle after approval actions for TAAs, MLAs and WDAs. In this installment of our instructional webinar series we will address the most complex US Government export authorization, the Department of State’s agreements, including Technical Assist Agreements (TAA), Manufacturing License Agreement (MLA) and the Warehouse and Distribution Agreement (WDA). If you are exporting technical data or providing a defens...