Recent changes within the government have given federal employees cause for concern. Reduced resources, shifting priorities, and environment and political changes can have a de-motivating effect on employees and directly impact work relationships. As changes are introduced into agencies, it is vital that employees remain engaged, motivated, and empowered. Reserve your space now to join Ken Blanchard and other leadership and development profess...

The biggest-ever cloud computing event in Washington D.C. is coming—and you're invited to experience the social, mobile, and open innovations driving business and government success in the Cloud 2 world. Join salesforce.com Chairman & CEO Marc Benioff and special guests for a free, action-packed day where you'll have the chance to network with public- and private-sector customers, pick up best practices, and come away with new skills...

Cloud computing has fundamentally transformed the way businesses acquire IT functions. More and more organizations are moving to the cloud for the benefits of faster time to market, elasticity, and improved performance. However, not every cloud migration is a success story. Some cloud providers do not offer standard APIs for enterprise integration, and dealing with proprietary integration could mean vendor lock-in down the road. Moreover, some...

Maintaining submarines at the forefront of global naval capabilities The Submarine Operations & Requirements Conference Series brings together Submariners from around the world to discuss the critical issues to the community. From overviews of key platform and technology developments, better understanding of the evolving Submarine mission profile, to the current threats being faced. The 2nd Annual conference will focus on the issues essent...

Cyber Security 2011: Protecting Critical National Infrastructure From The Cyber Threat Cyber Security is now recognised as a high risk priority by governments across the globe. This is supported by the fact that the UK Government’s Strategic Defence Spending Review which diverted key funds away from traditional areas of spending to the protection of the UK’s critical national infrastructure from the cyber threat. The importance of...

Strategies for the Upgrade and Modernisation of Asian Rotorcraft Platforms and Systems Military Helicopter Asia- Event Rationale: Changing requirements of regional defence forces have led to developments in the Asian helicopter market. Whilst attack capabilities still remain the core interest of most Asian militaries, budgetary and current operational needs have led to platform and payload upgrades. With Asia undergoing rapid modernisation, th...

Eliminating acts of terror and increasing stability across India India is confident to be a key player in the global homeland security market by 2020. The Homeland Security budget for both Central and State government for this year alone has been increased by 35% to US $28.34 billion. The projections for the next 5 years are anticipated to be several folds more. India has extensive borders of land running across 17 states and a vast coastline...

The Federal Contractors Roundtable provides a highly-relevant forum where business leaders and industry professionals can discuss current and upcoming legislative, agency-specific policy and regulatory changes impacting how they find and win government sector business. This Month's Topic: Getting the Meeting - Who, Why and What Works? You can spend every waking moment going to meeting after meeting without netting tangible results. Who are the...

For network managers, virtually every action that happens or doesn’t happen on your network, can be a threat to your state of compliance. Whether you’re dealing with PCI, HIPAA, SOX, FERC, NERC or others, find out the “Seven Dirty Little Secrets of Network Compliance Management” at our webinar on Thursday May 26th. Choose between two 30 minute live online sessions at 10 AM ET or 4 PM ET. Discover 7 secrets on: • Ho...

"Cloud Computing and its use in the Defence Environment" A symposium to examine the approaches that nations are taking to integrate the use of cloud computing into the defence environment and the challenges that arise, with special reference to security. There is an acceleration of cloud computing and cloud services among enterprises and an explosion of supply-side activity as technology providers manoeuvre to exploit the growing commercial op...