If your facility generates hazardous waste, you must comply with detailed regulatory requirements for waste characterization, container marking and labeling, waste minimization, manifesting, transportation, emergency response, and land disposal certification. EPA and state regulations require annual hazardous waste management training. At this two-day class you will learn the latest requirements of the law and how to comply. This course will t...

If you do business with government agencies and their contractors, you should attend Business Over Breakfast™, the most productive government sector "just networking" breakfast event in DC/MD/VA. Business Over Breakfast™ Belvoir/Quantico convenes at the Old Country Buffet just off I-95 in Woodbridge and is hosted by Joe Martin of Employment Enterprises, Inc.Your registration for Business Over Breakfast™ Belvoir/Quantico inclu...

Security in the Federal Cloud Enhance Datacenter and Cloud Security with Virtualization Virtualization is disrupting assumptions about how security is deployed and operated in data centers and in the cloud. While many of the same basic principles of IT security apply in virtual environments as they do in physical ones, virtualization offers some key additional benefits for securing IT infrastructure, such as: Reducing the interfaces and the at...

The ASBC's Business Over Breakfast is a weekly small group networking opportunity for those with interest or involvement in Federal Government Contracting. The original Business Over Breakfast group still meets at 7:30am every Wednesday at the Tower Club in Vienna, VA. The Columbia, MD meetings will take place the third Friday of each month at Bob Evans Restaurant in the Columbia Restaurant Park. Your registration for Business Over Breakfast...

Mark your calendar for SANS Cyber Defense Initiative (CDI) December 10 - 17 in Washington DC. This event will feature 25 courses, including the new SEC 569: Combating Malware in the Enterprise and SEC580: Metasploit Kung Fu for Enterprise Pen Testing. Register by October 27 and save $400 on tuition fees with discounts offered to early registrants. http://www.sans.org/cyber-defense-initiative-2010/SANS is the one education organization known fo...

WHAT'S COVERED The vast majority of BI professionals are excited about the prospects of data mining, but are fully mystified about where to begin or even how to prepare. Of those who did initiate a modeling initiative, a recent data mining industry survey of predictive modeling practitioners reports that 51% of data mining projects either never left the ground, did not realize value or the ultimate results were not measurable. Despite its elus...

The Atlantic and Government Executive invite you to join us for our inaugural Cybersecurity Forum, featuring conversations on the intersection of security and technology and addressing the most urgent issues around cyber innovation and its impact in the public and private sectors. The forum will convene the foremost experts in technology, defense, intelligence and geostrategic issues for candid and lively discussions about the current state of...

The newly elected Congress means changes to the political landscape, and government procurement is no exception. Understanding where procurement policy and oversight are headed in this new environment is vital to government contractor business planning. Get the information you need to develop your business strategies in 2011. Procurement Reform and Defense Spending: How will upcoming acquisition policy, oversight, and defense efficiency and ma...

Time is running out as the number of IPv4 addresses run low. The last batches of IPv4 addresses are expected to be released towards the end of 2011, and the government is rapidly transitioning to IPv6. In September, Federal CIO Vivek Kundra issued a comprehensive set of guidelines for implementing IPv6 in agency public-facing systems and internal networks. OMB guidelines provide Federal agencies with a roadmap to deploy IPv6-enabled network se...