The Department of Defense (DoD) Office of Small Business Programs (OSBP) in partnership with the Small Business Administration (SBA) is sponsoring Small Business Training Week (SBTW18). This annual event is slated for April 23–27, 2018, in New Orleans. It will feature an outstanding lineup of dynamic speakers as well as engaging workshops led by respected experts. Four days of learning and networking are capped off by the Vanguard Awards...

Enterprise Architecture has become one of the pillars of the federal IT world to help make operations run smoothly, seamlessly and maneuver easily. No matter what technology is touted, or how service oriented and agile the applications are -- especially cloud-based or SAAS environments -- technology systems must be designed and implemented to support the business or mission and enable processes. If integrated IT systems don't work or fail, the...

SMi is delighted to announce the launch of Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS) conference taking place in London, UK on 25th and 26th April 2018. The UK MoD has recognised the potential of Robotic and Autonomous Systems (RAS) to provide strategic superiority in military operations. As a means to establish the opportunities a quick adoption of RAS would provide the British Army, it will conduct an important and large-scale exercise in Autumn...

With the defence industry becoming ever more data driven, ensuring that space systems can operate both safely and efficiently is crucial for government and military agencies. SMi's 13th annual Military Space Situational Awareness (SSA) conference will bring together key military, government, civilian and industry stakeholders, to discuss leading approaches and strategies being adopted to generate a holistic approach to SSA, at a time when the...

The need to maximize the cost effectiveness and intelligently leverage technology is imperative to ENABLING MISSION COMMAND. TechNet Fort Bragg offers an opportunity for experts and leaders from across the Army and Fort Bragg community to address various sides of the tough, controversial issues facing the FORSCOM, USSOCOM, JSOC and USASOC community.The goal of this Symposium is to allow a forum to demonstrate new, innovative ideas and share b...

MODSIM World is a unique multi-disciplinary conference for the exchange of modeling and simulation knowledge, research and technology. This event joins theory and practice across industry, government and academia; providing for an open interchange of information, knowledge and technology.This year’s conference will bring together leaders in the M&S field focused on novel Modeling and Simulation applications and practices targeted at...

The National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) and the NATO Munitions Safety Information Analysis Center (MSIAC) are sponsoring a joint industry/government symposium on Insensitive Munitions (IM) and Energetic Materials (EM).This year’s theme is “Innovative Insensitive Munition Solutions for Enhanced Warfighter Effectiveness.”New IM technologies, EM and formulations are being developed and deployed into the field. This sy...

Now entering its 50th year, WasteExpo has been the premier event in North America serving the $85 billion solid waste, recycling and organics industry, bringing together more than 12,000 industry professionals from around the world each year. With an expanded conference program organized by the National Waste & Recycling Association (NWRA), 600 of the industry’s leading suppliers, and support from Waste360, WasteExpo provides a compr...

For more than 20 years The Annual Technology Expo in Parkersburg, WV has been the forum for technology vendors to interact with federal, state and local government personnel in this region where the Bureau of Fiscal Services is located. Although headquartered in Wash DC the majority of Bureau of the Fiscal Service personnel work in the Parkersburg office and make up a large part of the audience who attend. This program is the one opportunity e...

While many Federal organizations are moving aggressively to lower monthly portfolio data center costs by leveraging public and private cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offerings to run legacy virtual machines, this approach does not take full advantage of the potential benefits of a cloud architecture. Cloud-native development reconstructs an application in a target cloud ecosystem, and calls upon cloud services inherent in the cloud e...