How has the federal market changed in the wake of sequestration? How will you succeed in FY 2014? How will actions from The Hill affect your business? How will changing Agency Budget Priorities impact your business? Learn the answers to those questions from Federal Acquisition Leaders, Agency CFOs and Government Officials at The Coalition’s 2013 Fall Training Conference – The New Federal Market. Breakout sessions will include discu...

Over the past year, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made major advances in improving and simplifying the future security requirements for government information technology (IT). They have identified new standards, strategies, and solutions that have reduced the FISMA requirements on the government organizations by over 50 percent and the risk to systems by much more. Thes...

The Presidential Directive on Managing Government Records issued on August 24, 2012, begins an ambitious effort to “reform records management practices and policies and to develop a 21st-century framework for the management of Government records." The Directive lays out two overarching goals - electronic records management and compliance with statutes and regulations - with seven specific targets to be completed between now and December...

Background The Government Customer Service Improvement Act currently in Congress and Executive Order 13571 already in effect are among the most recent in a long succession of laws and directives intended to assure quality where citizens with needs touch government. While there has never been more attention focused on the effectiveness of our services, there has also never been a more challenging environment for delivering them. Agencies and or...

Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are placing increased emphasis on implementing an effective "information security continuous monitoring (ISCM) program" for all government and contractor run IT systems. This will be accomplished by DHS and OMB increasing the annual FISMA reporting requirements and NIST issuing NIST Special Publications (SP): I...

Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are placing increased emphasis on implementing an effective "information security continuous monitoring (ISCM) program" for all government and contractor run IT systems. This will be accomplished by DHS and OMB increasing the annual FISMA reporting requirements and NIST issuing NIST Special Publications (SP). T...

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made some major advances in improving the future of government information system security. How do you leverage all of these advances to successfully meet your 2012 FISMA requirements? This 2-day course explains the specifics of these advances and provides strategies for leveraging them into meeting your individual and enterprise FISMA resp...

Collaborative Tools of the Proposal Professional: How to make your job easier and more productive. Proposal professionals need to do more with less. What better approach than leveraging the latest collaborative tools? Whether you are a tech savvy Web 2.0 guru or a harried proposal manager looking for the most effective team communication methods, our panelists will share useful, hands-on experiences, lessons learned and recommendations for success.

Department of Veterans Affairs T4 Program for IT Professional Services May Top $3B The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Transformation Twenty-One Total Technology (T4) Program will consist of a multiple award contract vehicle to provide a comprehensive, world-wide, solution to support both VA and non-VA customers. While a ceiling value has not yet been established, the contract is similar to, but not a direct follow-on to Global Information...