How does your company get noticed?How do government contractors get noticed by customers at agencies and other companies? Some buy very large branded bags to give out at trade shows while others host webinars and other information exchanges of potential interest to customers. Generally, the goals for marketing include having current and prospective customers take note of your capabilities and expertise, to purchase from you and to refer you to...

Due to unprecedented budget pressure, institutions are taking open source from academic computing and bringing it into the data center and the classroom. By doing so they're reducing costs and increasing collaborative innovation. Gunnar Hellekson, Red Hat Chief Technology Strategist, discusses the evolution and growth of open source in higher education.

GEAR UP West is a collaboration among GEAR UP programs from several western states. This event provides knowledgeable, dynamic speakers, over 30 breakout sessions covering a variety of topics, and opportunities to network with GEAR UP and college access colleagues from the western region.

This is the annual planning meeting for academic science and engineering teaching and research program administrators, capital project teams, finance and capital planners, facility and space planners, facility engineering managers, faculty, deans, and science department heads to benchmark their plans and programs, and build on the latest successes and innovations. Attend this conference to benchmark your academic science and engineering facili...

The first annual OASIS International Cloud Symposium (ICS) brings together standards development organisations, government, network & research organisations, and others from around the world to chart the progress and define a path to enable robust trusted cloud deployments. Hosted at the beautiful historic Ditton Manor, located outside London, the Symposium combines high-profile keynote speakers, interactive roundtable sessions, moderated...

Join Deltek’s Chris Dixon and Public Technology Institute’s (PTI) Alan Shark for a FREE webinar on the breakdown of the results from the State of City and County IT 2011 National Survey and analyze the indications for state and local markets. What You Will Learn: In August and September 2011, PTI and Deltek conducted a national survey of local government chief information officers (CIOs) and information technology (IT) directors. T...

The ASBC's of Government Contracting™ provides practical and up-to-date information on running a business and finding and winning business as a government contractor and subcontractor. Topics presented are selected based on information collected through ongoing surveys and member feedback, and are presented by Industry veterans and current and former Government officials sharing their acquired experiences. The goal? Delivering accurate a...

Simplified Acquisitions. How do they play into your strategy?What exactly is a Simplified Acquisition and why do they matter? How do you pursue these opportunities and are you familiar with how agencies advertise them? Were you aware procurements conducted under Simplified Acquisition Procedures (SAP) actually favor small businesses?During FY2010, over twenty federal agencies issued more than 620,000 Simplified Acquisition contract actions tot...

October 3 – 5, 2011 at Gaylord National Hotel & Convention Center, Washington D.C. Join us to experience everything you have come to love about the Blackbaud Conference — three days of educational content dedicated to your specific needs and unprecedented opportunities to network and interact with your peers and industry experts. Do you want to sponsor bbcon 2011? Send us an email and let's get started! Want to come to bbcon fo...

This cutting-edge conference brings together military, federal and local governments, academia and industry to discuss their plans to expand their UAS use and to address the challenges facing potential expanded use of UAS. Presentations and Panel Discussions include: Incorporate Human Factors in UAS Design Launch and Recovery Equipment Interoperability Standards Payload and Sensor Integration Integrating UA into Civil Airspace Ground Station...