A major complaint in many government agencies is information overload. How do you make sense out of all the data coming in and then use it to make a difference? In the past, too much emphasis has been placed on producing performance information to comply with a checklist of requirements instead of using it to drive change. This must change. Federal managers and employees at all levels must use performance goals and measures to set priorities,...

Adobe Webcast: Protect Sensitive Information with LiveCycle Rights Management Join Carahsoft and Adobe for a complimentary webcast to discover how you can utilize Adobe LiveCycle Rights Management ES2 to increase your agency’s productivity and systematically lower the risk of sensitive information getting into the wrong hands. With LiveCycle, you can protect PDFs and other documents, both online and offline, add built-in security to all...

Secure Your Infrastructure from DDoS Attacks Government security organizations must continuously maintain policy compliance, evaluate new cyber threats, and assess risks without impacting operational effectiveness or availability. Akamai offers a broad range of flexible and highly scalable security capabilities to help government organizations extend their defenses out to the edge of the internet and solidify their infrastructure against mass...

Highlights From the FCC and FEMA Workshop on 21st Century Emergency Alerting and What it Means for Current Alerting Approaches Carahsoft and Vertigo Solutions present a follow-up to the FCC and FEMA’s workshop: “21st Century Emergency Alerting: Leveraging Multiple Technologies to Bring Alerts and Warnings to the Public,” held on June 10th, 2010. Join us during this webinar as we present a recap of the workshop discussion, as...

Money-laundering is one of the most common and complex financial crimes to be committed. Learn exactly what you need to know about the specific statutes and regulations that govern the crime. Register for this webinar to receive first-hand advice from a veteran anti-money laundering investigator on: Key anti-money laundering laws; Penalties for money-laundering crimes; How your organization can best respond to money-laundering mandates, whethe...

Join INPUT and our partner community members, Pathfinders International, LLC and AOC Key Solutions, Inc., as we provide you with the essentials to assess and validate opportunities, determine how and whether to begin a capture pursuit, and then effectively manage a proposal process to a successful completion. This INPUT education seminar is geared towards members and nonmembers who have already attended our Federal Fundamentals seminar, or who...

PrivacyCampTO is an unconference happening in Toronto, Canada on digital privacy in the age of social medial ubiquity. Everyone is welcome: educators, techies, policymakers, students, academics, librarians and, of course, casual users. The goal of PrivacyCampTO are is to look at privacy issues relating to everyday users and everyday situations both practically and theoretically. In other words, privacy for everyone. Many of these areas have no...

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 Le Madeleine in Columbia Crossing Shopping Center. There is no registration fee for this event, simpl...

As governments seek to remodel and restyle their services, e-Government continues to arouse interest and attention. New dynamic issues such as e-democracy, e-citizenship, e-Identity and e-voting have become core elements in the development of public sector delivery. The multi-tier nature of e-Government, relevant at local government, central government but also at the supranational level such as the European Union, makes it of importance to ac...

The Defense Systems Acquisition Management course meets the needs of defense industry acquisition managers in today’s dynamic environment, providing the latest information related to:• Defense acquisition policy for weapons and information technology systems including discussion of the DoD 5000 series (directive, instruction, and guidebook).• Defense acquisition, reform, and initiatives.• Defense acquisition procedures and...