Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Martin Dempsey is the top military adviser to President Obama and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. General Dempsey is responsible for managing the drawdown of our Afghanistan commitment, and for preparing the military for tomorrow's wars. We face a "security paradox," he says: while worldwide violence has declined, destructive technologies are proliferating among potential enemies among state and non-state...

Join GovWin and Mark Amtower, founding partner of Amtower & Company, consultant, speaker, author and radio show host, gives his tips on building your reputation for expertise online on Tuesday, June 19 from 11 to 11:30 am ET. The goal of this series is simple: get answers to mid- and small business's most important government contracting sales questions. Featuring a new business development expert each Wednesday, each free Webinar session...

To help spur teaming matches amongst business owners, NYC Teaming - a city-wide initiative created by American Express OPEN and the New York City Department of Small Business Services (SBS) will host its first business matching event on Tuesday, June 19 from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm at American Express Headquarters on 200 Vesey Street. Business owners will have the opportunity to meet with potential buyers and receive expert advice on how to select...

Providing Agility and Mission Velocity at Light Speed While the primary motivation for cloud computing among government agencies is cost reduction, the larger discussion should be about using this new paradigm to accelerate your mission and provide services at light speed. If you are considering using the cloud, one fundamental question you should ask is how fast your cloud can move. The answer depends on how the cloud is built and whether it...

Years ago, the U.S. Air Force coined the term "Advanced Persistent Threats" (APTs). Today, it is becoming one of the most talked about, inconsistently defined, and abused terms in security. Yet APTs are real threats that federal government and enterprise IT teams must combat because their sophisticated attacks have serious consequences. Please join Daniel Teal, founder and CTO of CoreTrace, and a former information warfare officer at the Air F...

The 2012 Stability, Security, Transition and Reconstruction Operations (SSTRO) Conference will look at stability efforts through the entire spectrum. We'll look at completed operations that show successes that are being replicated in other situations, current trouble spots, and what we can expect in the future. Although Afghanistan and Iraq will continue to be of tremendous importance and considerable challenge, there are other countries which...

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...

In a time of transition for the government with the upcoming Presidential and Congressional elections, federal managers will need to learn how to successfully navigate and shift their priorities and focus from the current landscape to identify the future of government. Now, the manager will require skills in strategic leadership and tools such as predictive analytics and solid forecasting models to develop insightful analysis of future trends...

Benefits We will review and discuss a wide variety of revenue recognition issues affecting nonprofit organizations. Practical case examples will be used to illustrate and reinforce the accounting principles to be considered in more complicated revenue transactions. This live audio conference will cover the revenue transaction descriptions described above in a practical approach format. You will take away concrete examples of the issues and con...

Startup Weekend is testing whether its model of promoting innovation & entrepreneurship can be applied to the e-GOV / Civic Engagement vertical. We're holding our second-ever weekend-long workshop at Microsoft Friendship Heights on June 15th-17th. There will be some world-class mentors, judges, and speakers as well as real-life problems facing local and federal agencies that need to be solved. The organizers hope to see high-impact, sustai...