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 group introductions and dynamic networking with individuals from Government and Industry. Partici...

The competitiveness of government contracting has intensified. Congress is projected to cut spending by over $200 billion this year, with deeper cuts anticipated for 2012. Meanwhile, the Obama administration is stepping up compliance enforcement and contract audits on businesses, while still pushing to reduce outsourcing talent to contractors. With spending cuts a priority, increased compliance enforcement and more frequent recompetes, how ca...

State and local CIOs see healthcare information exchange solutions as one of their top business and healthcare IT priorities for 2011. To implement HIEs successfully they will need to do a better job of integrating legacy applications with EMR's and managing data across hospitals, medical practices and health insurance companies in a flexible and secure manner. Join Informatica and DLT Solutions for this informative webcast around successfully...

Timely and powerful analysis of Criminal Intelligence data has great potential to improve the prevention of crimes and protection for citizens, and reduce the risk to officers in the line of duty. The creation and maturation of Fusion Centers has begun to unlock this potential, and supports key initiatives like Intelligence-led Policing. Despite these advances, law enforcement still faces significant challenges in fully exploiting their CI ass...

The Challenges of Warfighter Readiness in a Nation at War and in a Distressed Economy All segments of the sustainment enterprise – government and industry owned alike – are being called upon to deliver savings that will provide for new and repaired equipment. The environment of this battle is constantly morphing and changing, is not durable in terms of longevity, and is totally unpredictable. How will military and industry “s...

Tactical Communications 2011 will give you the opportunity to: Find out the status of Software Defined Radio (SDR) development with the USA Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS), the European Secure SOftware Defined Radio (ESSOR) and the alternatives other nations such as the UK MoD (BOWMAN) are pursuing Hear from front line commanders how military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan have affected the CIS requirements of partner nations, due to th...

Delivering Effective Training to Meet Increasing Demand. The leading and fully dedicated 2-day UAV Training and Simulation forum has returned for its second year! As was the case in 2010, UAS Training and Simulation promises a well balanced speaker panel comprising of both industry representatives and UAS end users. The agenda will address key developments in the fields of training interoperability, simulation solutions, integrated ISTAR train...

Part One: Agreement Awards. The Background of Federal Assistance; A Snapshot of Federal Assistance Funding; The Federal Grant and Cooperative Agreement Act; The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act; Types of Assistance Strategies and Awards; Grant Regulations; Selecting the Relationship: Assistance or Procurement; Selecting Assistance Relationship: Grant or Cooperative Agreement; Competition for Awards; The Evaluation of Proposals; Rights of...

Sponsored by Navy League of the United States, Sea-Air-Space Exposition is the largest maritime show of its kind. Experience the latest in sea power technology and learn about up-to-the-minute developments in the maritime services from top military and defense industry speakers during the professional seminars. Searching for new maritime products, services or solutions? Look no further than the exhibit hall, where more than 130 exhibitors will...

The US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is proud to announce the return of their annual IT symposium: USACE IM/IT Symposium 2011. The USACE IM/IT Symposium will take place at The Renaissance Austin Hotel the week of April 11-15, 2011, with exhibits open from Monday evening's reception through Wednesday lunch. Exhibitors will have the opportunity to network with approximately 130-150 USACE personnel in attendance while attending the conference s...