This year has been a busy one for the U.S. Air Force. Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan - as well as humanitarian missions in Haiti and Pakistan - have demonstrated the varying, vital roles the Air Force plays in U.S. relations all over the world. But in addition to executing these crucial missions, Air Force Chief of Staff General Norton A. Schwartz has management issues to contend with. With the draw-down of operations in Iraq, General Schw...

Join INPUT for a Federal Executive Breakfast featuring Richard A. Spires, chief information officer, Department of Homeland Security, and learn about the department’s FY 2011 technology infrastructure plans and initiatives. Appointed in September 2009, Spires is responsible for the department’s $6.4 billion IT investment. He leads and facilitates the development, implementation, and maintenance of the department’s IT architec...

Congress has established a National Office for Cybersecurity at the White House, now requires federal agencies to conduct independent audits of their information security programs, and has established new policies for agency acquisition and procurement. Two years ago, Congressman Mike McCaul co-founded the first-ever House Cyber Security Caucus to address these areas of oversight and inconsistency. Join Congressman McCaul in a moderated discus...

The importance of IT in solving information-sharing and open-government issues is putting federal CIOs in the driver's seat at many agencies. With a new focus on data, cloud computing and information security, federal CIOs are increasingly given a major role in executing their agencies' missions.Join Allan Holmes, Executive Editor of Nextgov, and a panel of top federal CIOs as they explore how federal Chief Information Officers are impacting y...

Join us for this live webcast with featured speaker Thom Rubel of IDC Government Insights and Michael Rowley of Active Endpoints. Listen to their perspectives about the opportunities government agencies - federal, state and local - have to develop "smart applications" to improve service delivery and efficiency, and how a standards-based Business Process Management System (BPMS) can provide the technology to enable this kind of innovation. The...

At the military service level, this major event in the fall at Quantico serves as a premier equipment, systems, services and technology exposition. The exposition is located at the heart of Marine requirements, research & development, acquisition, procurement and professional school activities. Modern Day Marine began in 1981 when the leadership of the Marine Corps League, a Congressionally chartered veteran's organization, sought support...

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...

If your firm is considering going after government contracts, or has recently been awarded a government contract, then you need to understand the risks involved under DCAA's audit rules. Federal contractors with systems built on generic software tools with extensive workarounds, especially small to medium sized firms using popular software like QuickBooks, are at risk of DCAA compliance failure. Those firms with cost accounting and internal co...

To keep Congressional staffers up to date on the current economic situation, the Mercatus Center hosts quarterly briefings that survey the current economic scene. Special attention is paid to inflation, GDP, unemployment, and interest rates. Hosted by Dr. Bruce Yandle, one of our most popular speakers, these quarterly briefings are free of charge and open to all senior congressional staffers.

Join Eric Gregory, Sr. Vice President, Capture & Proposal Management at CACI for a breakfast briefing on Tuesday, September 28 as he shares the simple strategies he developed to set his capture and proposal team on the road to productivity and operational efficiencies. Increasing competition and cost control efforts are driving companies of all sizes to adopt ways so they can do more with less. The most likely path is to use technologies t...