SMi is proud to present its 12th annual International Software Radio symposium, to be held in London on Wednesday 20th and Thursday 21st of June 2012. This event returns to take up its placing as a leading forum for discussion and analysis in the field of Software Defined Radio. Building on the success of previous events, this year brings an international line-up of speakers and keenly focused agenda. International Software Radio 2012’s...

SMi Group is proud to present the 5th annual Cyber Defence conference, to be held in London on Monday 18th and Tuesday 19th June 2012. This conference follows on from SMi’s previous highly successful Cyber Defence events and offers the opportunity to keep up-to-date with the latest developments, challenges and solutions that you need to keep up to speed and fully aware what is coming up on the cyber defence policy horizon. This year's pr...

SMi Group proudly presents the 3rd annual Air Mission Planning conference, which will be held in London on 11th & 12th June 2012. From tasking to re-tasking, mission planning is the core competence that underpins air operations for our flight crews and airmen. Advances in technology have increased capability and safety in the air whilst the evolution to dynamic mission planning has been supported by the modern tools at our disposal over th...

New Special Reduced Registration Feeand Team Rates$795 for Government New Special Reduced Registration Fee$895 for Industry Overview of the Workshop: Hiring federal employees was never an easy process, and so it was especially frustrating to both line managers and HR offices when a new hire might leave after just a year or two. In today’s budget environment, with hard or soft hiring freezes, and early out and buyouts becoming ever more c...

New Special Reduced Registration Feeand Team Rates$695 for Government New Special Reduced Registration Fee$795 for Industry Overview of the Workshop: The OMB Circular, No. A–11, Part 7 PLANNING, BUDGETING, ACQUISITION, AND MANAGEMENT OF CAPITAL ASSETS says that all major projects will be managed using EVMS as defined in the Capital Programming Guide. That the information will be used to report to status against OMB 300 programs. EVM is a...

In November 2010 GSA with support from Dept of Homeland Security and Dept of Defense established the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) as the standard approach to Assessing and Authorizing cloud computing security services and products. Melvin Greer, Senior Fellow and Chief Strategist Cloud Computing describes the impact of FedRAMP on the development of secure cloud computing and explains what agencies and cloud servi...

Many Government organizations currently use technologies such as Microsoft Project as part of their program management solution. This Executive Breakfast will show how to leverage this investment to implement improved program management and compliance with the current era of reduced budgets and transparency.

President Obama signed the GPRA Modernization Act of 2010 (H.R. 2142) on January 4, 2011 and OMB subsequently issued three guidance documents on its implementation. Learn how the Act impacts your agency through the codification of key elements of the current performance management approach, planning, and the creation of a more defined performance frameworkA 1-day workshop for public sector program executives, managers, and staff responsible fo...

ISR is the lynchpin of modern warfare, and the methodology by which it is collected, analysed and disseminated continues to develop as forces encounter new and familiar challenges across air, land and sea in the 21st century. Both the cyber and space domains have seen and continue to see an incremental increase in offensive and defensive activity over recent years and, in these two domains, ISR finds itself yet more relevant. Against this back...

The long awaited release of NIST’s Unified Information Security Framework has arrived in the form of NIST Special Publication 800-53 Revision 4 (Draft).Learn about the changes with your government and industry colleagues and explore the changes this document brings and the implications for your agency or your contract.The day will start with an introduction and overview of NIST Special Publication 800-53 Revision 4 (Draft) by Dr. Ron Ros...