To win in today’s highly competitive markets, you must train your people to be effective proposal developers and managers — they are your real winning edge! H. Silver and Associates’ three-day proposal workshop gives participants the knowledge, skills, and tools they need to prepare winning proposals. The workshop is a complete proposal training package for anyone on your company’s technical, management, marketing, busi...

Today’s rapidly changing marketplace and acquisition requirements are reshaping the program you pursue and the proposal you deliver. You face tighter budgets, fewer programs, totally new business arenas, must-win technology R&D competitions, and streamlined acquisitions. In addition, the many major mergers both in the U.S. and Europe have changed the nature of new-business acquisitions. Add to this challenge - tightened page counts a...

DoD and DOE – Leading the Way in Developing Smart Energy Grids and Microgrids The world microgrid market topped $4 billion in 2010, and according to a recent Congressional study the military microgrid market alone is projected to increase by 375% from 2010-2020. Microgrids, localized groupings of power generation, storage and load management units, can operate, if necessary or by design, independently from the larger power grid. Because...

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL MARCH 2014. Exploiting the Cloud for Defense, Intelligence and Homeland Security The federal government has embarked on an ambitious plan to transform IT acquisition and management, with a goal of instituting cloud computing in every federal agency to provide on-demand access to a shared pool of configurable resources that can be quickly established and quickly dismantled. The savings in DoD, IC, and DHS IT...

Today’s rapidly changing marketplace and acquisition requirements are reshaping the program you pursue and the proposal you deliver. You face tighter budgets, fewer programs, totally new business arenas, must-win technology R&D competitions, and streamlined acquisitions. In addition, the many major mergers both in the U.S. and Europe have changed the nature of new-business acquisitions. Add to this challenge - tightened page counts a...

Military EHRS — Where Do We Stand? Where Are We Going? – How Will We Get There? The DoD has been leading the way in developing and Implementing Military Integrated Electronic Health Records (iEHRs) for the Military Health System. Servicing almost 10,000,000 million patients, 137,000 thousand Medical Health System (MHS) staff, 412 medical clinics, 413 dental clinics and more than 65 military hospitals. Military EHRs data sharing co...

Big Data for Defense, Intelligence, and Homeland Security Today’s Warfighter has access to an ever-increasing number of sensors, imagers, internet artifacts, open source and other sophisticated collection devices and mechanisms, to the point that a major challenge has become how to sift through this massive amount of information to find the most critical and actionable items of intelligence. Increasingly, this must be accomplished in nea...

Cyber Security and Infrastructure Protection Symposium Attacks on the U.S. critical infrastructure computer networks, aimed at significantly disrupting or permanently wiping out the functioning of government and business alike, would produce cascading effects far beyond the targeted sector and physical location of the incident. In response, the President directed a comprehensive review of the Federal Government’s efforts to defend US co...

Unmanned Aircraft Systems Symposium Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UASs) and Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) have seen a golden age in the last decade growing to an annual budget of $7 billion. Most of this growth has been through the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but with the drawing down of troops, what’s next? Analysts still predict growth in this industry, estimating a total increase to just over $89 billion in the next decade. Not only...

Healthcare Data Analytics – What You Need to Know about This Burgeoning New Field! The healthcare analytics market, already at almost $4 billion annually, is expected to grow to nearly $11 billion per year by 2017. In addition, the application of emerging Big data tools and analytics could help U.S. citizens save as much as$450 billion in healthcare costs, but fundamental change is necessary to meeting such goals, according to a new ana...