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...

Where the Brightest Minds In Health And IT Meet HIMSS17 will be held on Sunday, February 19 – Thursday, February 23. Preconference programs and symposia will be held on Sunday, followed by the HIMSS17 Opening Reception. Keynotes and concurrent education sessions will occur Monday – Thursday. The exhibit hall will be open Monday – Wednesday. Conference Education Topics The main education topics for the 2017 HIMSS Annual Confer...

Citizen Engagement Summit: Meeting the Demands of the Digital Citizen Digital services are moving out of start-up mode. Once the province of Silicon Valley expatriates and a small group of e-government enthusiasts, the field of digital services has come to be seen as essential to much-needed efforts to transform how agencies provide information and services to the public. The need for transformation is being driven by public expectations...

Safe-room, panic rooms, evacuation shelters, tornado cellars and collective shelters all provide protection from man-made or natural threats, for both short and long periods of time. They usually serves as a place to repair to during emergency situations; a fall back position in case of emergencies, if you will. Effective design components; i.e., air requirements and waste management, capacity limits, use of electronic media and other technolo...

Who should attend: This key course is essential for all contractors. It is designed for professionals with 1 or more years of experience with cost and price information. Attendees include accounting, finance, compliance, management, contracting personnel and anyone who must have a solid knowledge of cost and price analysis. What you will learn: Government Contracting Officers are required to “purchase supplies and services from responsib...

This educational one-day symposium will feature cloud & data center subject matter experts from the Federal government and academia participating on panels. (Cloud & Data Center Summit Agenda)The MITRE-ATARC Cloud & Data Center Symposium will discuss and white-board various cloud "challenge areas” and produce a White Paper with recommendations for the Federal government. The following challenge areas will be discussed: 1. Wor...

Join PVBS for an engaging webinar presented by Mr. Kevin Young, GovCon Speaker, Author and Adjunct Professor, as he offers up tips and techniques on how to successfully target, engage, win and sustain business with the U.S. Federal Government. Learn how to avoid Business-to-Government “minefields” with strategies that help grow your business. Mr. Young will even walk through some simple Gap Analysis and Remediation strategies that...

Once considered the “cool kid” technology of Silicon Valley, Linux containers are in use today in several federal agencies at scale. In fact, open source communities like the Open Container Initiative and Kubernetes accelerated the maturity of the Linux container ecosystem to where government agencies are now using them in production. Linux containers are technologies that allow you to package and isolate applications with their en...

On January 20th President-elect Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States. For many of us this is the first Presidential Transition that we have experienced and what lies ahead for all of us still remains unclear. Join the ACT-IAC NexUS community on February 16th from 4:00 - 6:30 PM to hear from executives in government and industry as they discuss lessons from past Presidential transitions as well as the status o...