The International Maritime Organization (IMO) is the United Nations' specialized agency responsible for the safety and security of shipping, and the prevention of marine pollution by ships. It is the preeminent forum for global maritime safety, security, pollution prevention, human considerations and legal affairs, as well as facilitation of ship to port interface, technical issues and audit schemes. But how did this organization start, and ho...

This webinar goes beyond the basics! Join experts Barbara Kinosky and David Warner for an informative, interactive and very witty advanced 90-minute webinar covering complex issues in the Service Contract Labor Standards (formerly SCA.) Learn about conformances, retroactive application of the act, equitable adjustments, DOL investigations, and price adjustments. Understand current audit focus issues and how to make it right if you got it wrong.

While many Federal organizations are moving aggressively to lower monthly portfolio data center costs by leveraging public and private cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offerings to run legacy virtual machines, this approach does not take full advantage of the potential benefits of a cloud architecture. Cloud-native development reconstructs an application in a target cloud ecosystem, and calls upon cloud services inherent in the cloud e...

A new era of data-driven government is taking shape, and agencies are using evidence-based decision making for strategic data management and analysis. Government agencies are using data every day to help citizens by streamlining traffic, deploying supplies to hurricane-ravaged islands, and tapping medical research results to save lives. Data is also being used to uncover fraud and unlock insight in myriad of ways to streamline the business of...

With increased scrutiny of contract flexibilities and abuse-prone contracts, agencies and contractors need to ensure incentive and award-fee contracts are formulated on a solid, measurable baseline, executed and documented by the book. The Incentive and Award Fee Workshop provides attendees with increased understanding of the rules and principles of Award and Incentive Fee contracts. Interactive coursework provides clear understanding of the a...

This course is a three-day introduction of HEC-RAS and a one-day introduction to HEC-RAS 2D, with applications to dam safety. The three-day introduction course provides hands on opportunity to use the program and resolve specific questions. The objective of this course is to review the principles of open channel hydraulics as they relate to the natural stream environment with application to dam safety. Both steady and unsteady flow modeling wi...

RSA Conference 2018 takes place April 16 to 20 in San Francisco! Information is power. And wherever there’s power, there are people looking to steal it. But that’s also where you’ll find us. We’re RSA Conference. And we’re here to stand against cyberthreats around the world. That means being here for you. Connecting you with the people and insights that will empower you to stay ahead of cyberthreats. We do this th...

Cybersecurity touches virtually every aspect of government, because in the digital economy, virtually everything is connected. That means that, in the era of enterprise clouds, everything is at risk for a cyberattack. Based on over 20-years’ experience securing military infrastructure, most recently for the Pentagon’s Joint Staff, speaker Eric Hammersley will explore how security can be baked into modern infrastructure.

In the last two years, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) has made monumental changes to its regulations concerning the eligibility of joint ventures to compete on small business and status-based set-asides. These include major revisions to the 8(a) mentor-protégé program, creation of the “All Small Business” mentor-protégé program, and opening the door to joint ventures comprising multiple sma...

“Nobody does it alone.” It may be true in life, but it is certainly true in government contracting. Prime contractor-subcontractor relationships are key to winning, and successfully performing, most government contracts. And the two most important elements of that relationship are the teaming agreement and subcontract. In this program, an experienced government contract attorney will drill down into the most important issues in tea...