The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Information Resource Management will host the first quarterly technology educational seminar and IT Expo, reflecting their mission to empower diplomacy, consular services, and development, by providing access to information and technology solutions anytime and anywhere.This first event of the quarterly series will focus on Cloud Computing and be held at the American Red Cross Building. During the...

Join Adobe in Phoenix on Thursday, March 24th, to learn how Adobe can help your agency transform everyday citizen and employee interactions, while leveraging your existing IT infrastructure. Discover how your agency can benefit from enterprise applications that blend electronic forms, process management, document security, document generation, and web content management to modernize your day to day activities. Our solutions have been used to h...

Robot evolution is at an important crossroads -- developers need a better appreciation for “mission relation” and operators want to better understand the technology. The 2011 NDIA Ground Robotics Capabilities Conference is the place to advance a shared understanding. This year’s theme is “Saving Lives, Saving $ - Are Robot Recruits the Answer?” The purpose of this conference is to bring together warfighters and h...

The number of Federal Supply Schedule contracts awarded by the General Services Administration (“GSA”) has increased significantly in the last five years, and many companies see Schedule contracts as an “easy” way to enter into the government marketplace. However, while Schedule contracts do ease the burden on government agencies when procuring products and services, they can be quite difficult for the contractor to ad...

With nearly 5,000 federal jobs joining to the already 30,000 in Alabama, Huntsville is becoming the new Federal City for top agencies. Join INPUT and Deltek for a federal regional breakfast meeting to learn how these agencies are handling their operations in the region. This breakfast will feature presentations from: Colonel Gerald Daniels Chief Information OfficerArmy Space and Missile Defense Command Jonathan PettusDirector of the Office of...

Exploiting Mission Systems to Increase ISR Capabilities! IDGA’s 2nd Annual Non-Traditional ISR Summit will provide the most up-to-date information on the latest NTISR advancements in technologies and the lessons learned from recent efforts and aircraft enhancements. View the Program Agenda at http://tinyurl.com/3a9rvja for complete speaker and event details. At IDGA’s 2nd Annual Non-Traditional Intelligence, Surveillance, and Recon...

Enhancing Counter-Insurgency Operations and Force Protection Government and military users across the spectrum of strategic and tactical roles and missions are clamoring for more and better means to collect, analyze, exploit and share full motion video. While the deployment of unmanned systems has led to a significant increase in the amount of video that can be captured, the means to exploit that video for near-real time analysis and dissemina...

Understand the latest management analysis to ensure you don’t lose funding. The Government Performance Management Summit will provide you with guidance and available tools to support major changes in the management of your organization. The amendment to the landmark Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 is dramatically reforming the federal government’s efforts to track and improve agency performance. Don’t lose fund...

Tactical and Practical with RF Communications From the latest air, land, sea and space-based radars, to next generation communication and SIGINT/ELINT/COMINT systems, antennas are the cornerstone of modern military RF systems. It is, therefore, no exaggeration to say that the future of the military is inextricably linked to continued advances in antenna technologies. As the DoD also aims for interoperability, a key challenge to be addressed is...

Building Effective Partnerships to Achieve Coastal and Offshore Safety and Security Offshore Patrol Vessels (OPVs) are the primary means of Coastal Water and Maritime Homeland Defense. Unfortunately, there are major capability gaps in the US maritime, Coast Guard, and Custom Border Protection interdiction strategy. These gaps can be closed with more effective OPVs, but to do this, decision makers must have access to practical, innovative progr...