This three-day course provides system engineers, team leaders, and managers with a clear understanding about how to develop good specifications affordably using modeling methods that encourage identification of the essential characteristics that must be respected in the subsequent design process. Both the analysis and management aspects are covered. Each student will receive a full set of course notes and textbook, “System Requirements A...

Please note: Business Over Breakfast™ - Tysons has moved to Silver Diner on Fletcher Street. For novices and industry veterans doing business in the government sector, Business Over Breakfast™ is the National Capital Region's most productive networking breakfast for developing meaningful business relationships and accurate, useful industry information. Business Over Breakfast™ features a straightforward and simple format with...

The number of Federal Supply Schedule contracts awarded by the General Services Administration (“GSA”) has increased significantly in the last five years, and many companies see Schedule contracts as an “easy” way to enter into the government marketplace. However, while Schedule contracts do ease the burden on government agencies when procuring products and services, they can be quite difficult for the contractor to ad...

Handling discrimination issues that go beyond traditional bases like race, sex and age can be tricky. And staying on top of recent trends surrounding accommodation requests -- particularly disability and religious -- as well as processing complaints raised by contract employees, can make this process even more complex. Take your EEO skills to the next level with expert insight from recognized authorities Elizabeth Lytle and Roslyn Brown. In th...

With the recent announcement from the US CIO, Vivek Kundra, to reform federal information technology management, government agencies are being asked to comply with the Cloud First policy and move three services to the cloud within the next 18 months. Over the last year many agencies - including whitehouse.gov - have successfully migrated their website to Drupal. Learn how you can meet this new directive by moving your website to the Cloud Firs...

With nearly 5,000 federal jobs joining to the already 30,000 in Alabama, Huntsville is becoming the new Federal City for top agencies. Join INPUT and Deltek for a federal regional breakfast meeting to learn how these agencies are handling their operations in the region. This breakfast will feature presentations from: Colonel Gerald Daniels Chief Information OfficerArmy Space and Missile Defense Command Jonathan PettusDirector of the Office of...

Cloud Solutions Architecture 101 Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provides tremendous new opportunities to realize business value through capital and operating cost savings. At the same time, Cloud IaaS characteristics mean that traditional approaches to systems and solutions architecture are in many ways outmoded. Modern Cloud solution architectures take advantage of the unique characteristics of Cloud services to provide greater effi...

Exploiting Mission Systems to Increase ISR Capabilities! IDGA’s 2nd Annual Non-Traditional ISR Summit will provide the most up-to-date information on the latest NTISR advancements in technologies and the lessons learned from recent efforts and aircraft enhancements. View the Program Agenda at http://tinyurl.com/3a9rvja for complete speaker and event details. At IDGA’s 2nd Annual Non-Traditional Intelligence, Surveillance, and Recon...

Enhancing Counter-Insurgency Operations and Force Protection Government and military users across the spectrum of strategic and tactical roles and missions are clamoring for more and better means to collect, analyze, exploit and share full motion video. While the deployment of unmanned systems has led to a significant increase in the amount of video that can be captured, the means to exploit that video for near-real time analysis and dissemina...

Understand the latest management analysis to ensure you don’t lose funding. The Government Performance Management Summit will provide you with guidance and available tools to support major changes in the management of your organization. The amendment to the landmark Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 is dramatically reforming the federal government’s efforts to track and improve agency performance. Don’t lose fund...