Join me and Sandy Sieber, member of the Spectrum Group and former First Director, Army Contracting Agency (ACA) in a lunch time discussion with Barbara Smith, a former Dean of the Defense Acquisition University (DAU). The session will be held live at the Spectrum Office in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia. The conference room overlooks the Potomac River and has a great view of Washington, D.C. We have room for 50 people for the on-site event. Lun...

EAR Export Controls / ITAR Defense Trade Controls Seminar Series Mastering Reformed US Export Controls under the Export Administration Regulations (EAR), International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and Office of Foreign Assets Controls (OFAC) regulations. EAR & OFAC Controls SEMINAR: MAY 19-20, 2014 SEMINAR AGENDA ITAR Controls SEMINAR: MAY 21-22, 2014 SEMINAR AGENDA **attend either seminar or both and get a discounted tuition Export...

Bringing IT Innovation to the Nation: A Public Sector Thought Leadership Conference State and local governments are back in growth mode when it comes to IT spending. These organizations, unlike the federal government, are pivoting from a period of cost-cutting to a new era of resurgence. Public sector IT integrators, contractors and vendors who focus on the nearly $60 billion SLED sector are engaged in a market now growing faster than federal...

Course Description: One of the most pressing deficiencies in recent joint operations has been trying to achieve coordinated and cohesive operations within the Electromagnetic Environment (EME). Decades of “Lessons Learned” and interference reports have culminated in a realization that anything that operates in the EM spectrum (communicates, radiates, locates) must be effectively managed. This short survey course will review current...

The focus for this iteration of the Summit will be :“Leveraging IT solutions to Broaden the Context of Connected Health in the DoD and VA” . We will expand our discussion to look at the context of connected health in a way that addresses areas such as analytics, workflow & improved patient engagement, and what does that require from the IT tools that can help us get there? The Summit brings together active members of the DoD an...

Course Description: This course provides insight into the whole electronic warfare field at the systems and operational level. It uses little math beyond algebra, yet the sources of important propagation and jamming equations are made amply clear. All information needed to understand the material is explained and included in the text. Both the course and the text avoid deep mathematical coverage, explaining all concepts in practical, physical...

Companies specializing in IT Security products and services are invited to exhibit at this one day Information Security Day, it is the only chance to get in front of USPTO employees at this facility in 2014. The day will feature various speakers addressing IA and security topics from the USPTO as well as other government agencies and industry. USPTO personnel are given credit toward their annual security certification requirements for attendin...

2014 Joint Civil & DoD CBRN Symposium Advancing CBRN Response, Defense & Technology Readiness March 17 – 18, 2014 | Mary M Gates Learning Center – Alexandria, VA DSI’s Joint Civil & DoD CBRN Symposium is designed as an educational and training “Town Hall” forum, where thought leaders and key policy-makers across military and civilian organizations can come together for actionable discussions and debate...

Course Description: This four day course covers the major concepts of Radar and Electronic Warfare (EW). The first two days cover radar and make use of the excellent book , Introduction to Airborne Radar (Second Edition) by Stimson. The material is presented in an easy-to-understand manner, with emphasis on those concepts of most importance to the EW matters to follow. Understanding radar principles is very important to effectively apply elect...

Electronic Warfare may be enjoying a moderate “renaissance” due to increasing recognition among commanders at all levels that controlling the Electromagnetic Spectrum and ensuring its availability is critical to all other security missions. The asymmetric conflicts in the Middle East, the growing reliance on “Net-Centric” warfare, increasing technological parity of foreign nations, unmanned operations, commercial-off-th...