AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting The AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting is the first major multidisciplinary event of the year for aerospace scientists and engineers from around the world. It provides an ideal forum for scientists and engineers from industry, government, and academia to share and disseminate scientific knowledge and research results with a view toward new technologies for aerospace systems. This meeting is built around excellent t...

If you do business with government agencies and their contractors, you should attend Business Over Breakfast™, the most productive government sector "just networking" breakfast event in DC/MD/VA. Business Over Breakfast™ Belvoir/Quantico convenes at the Old Country Buffet just off I-95 in Woodbridge and is hosted by Joe Martin of Employment Enterprises, Inc.Your registration for Business Over Breakfast™ Belvoir/Quantico inclu...

Mark your calendar for SANS Cyber Defense Initiative (CDI) December 10 - 17 in Washington DC. This event will feature 25 courses, including the new SEC 569: Combating Malware in the Enterprise and SEC580: Metasploit Kung Fu for Enterprise Pen Testing. Register by October 27 and save $400 on tuition fees with discounts offered to early registrants. http://www.sans.org/cyber-defense-initiative-2010/SANS is the one education organization known fo...

WHAT'S COVERED The vast majority of BI professionals are excited about the prospects of data mining, but are fully mystified about where to begin or even how to prepare. Of those who did initiate a modeling initiative, a recent data mining industry survey of predictive modeling practitioners reports that 51% of data mining projects either never left the ground, did not realize value or the ultimate results were not measurable. Despite its elus...

The Atlantic and Government Executive invite you to join us for our inaugural Cybersecurity Forum, featuring conversations on the intersection of security and technology and addressing the most urgent issues around cyber innovation and its impact in the public and private sectors. The forum will convene the foremost experts in technology, defense, intelligence and geostrategic issues for candid and lively discussions about the current state of...

The newly elected Congress means changes to the political landscape, and government procurement is no exception. Understanding where procurement policy and oversight are headed in this new environment is vital to government contractor business planning. Get the information you need to develop your business strategies in 2011. Procurement Reform and Defense Spending: How will upcoming acquisition policy, oversight, and defense efficiency and ma...

Stabilization and Reconstruction campaigns have proven to be immensely complex, multi-faceted, and complicated. They are likely to remain a pillar of both US foreign assistance and national security policy for the foreseeable future. Accordingly, within the context of the utilizing Smart Power in SSTR operations, the conference will enable participants to explore and contribute to understanding and overcoming policy and operational challenges...

Management Skills for New Government Managers Step into Your New Career Role with Confidence and Knowledge Motivate your team by asserting your own management style Explore Communication Strategies that Better Relate to Your Employees Needs Examine which vehicles of communications work within your team culture Develop your Problem-Solving and Conflict Resolution Skills Resolve difficult situation with the right set of solutions Learn how to Co...

The increasing level of combat system integration and communications requirements, coupled with shrinking defense budgets and shorter product life cycles, offers many challenges and opportunities in the design and acquisition of new combat systems. This three-day course teaches the systems engineering discipline that has built some of the modern military’s greatest combat and communications systems, using state-of-the-art systems enginee...

This introductory course has recently been expanded to three days by popular demand. It has been taught to thousands of industry professionals for more than two decades, to rave reviews. The course is intended primarily for non-technical people who must understand the entire field of commercial satellite communications, and who must understand and communicate with engineers and other technical personnel. The secondary audience is technical pe...