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...

IDGA’s Retrograde, RESET and Redistribution Summit offers relevant, unique sessions directly applicable to this dynamic world of military logistics. Session topics include: Enhancing property accountability and visibility for military equipment Pursuing equipment modernization and Warfighter protection initiatives Providing equipment retrograde and redistribution forecasting Continual assessment of advisory and assistance mission to iden...

Supplying and sustaining your operational success Europe’s most operationally focussed logistics event brings you an all new speaker panel: Hear the latest reports about what challenges and opportunities lie ahead for third party logistics including the UK MOD DSCOM, Canada’s CANOSCOM, the Multinational Logistics Coordination Centre in Prague, and the Italian Air Force’s Fuel Logistics Division Examine prime contractor needs...

IDGA’s Battlefield Healthcare Series summits are highly recognized and respected forums where those in the military medicine community interested in continuing medical education, networking, and advanced learning can come together for advanced and focused discussions on up to date clinical diagnosis and treatment techniques, lessons learned from the battlefield, and panel discussions that also allow participants to earn continuing educat...