The Military Aviation Logistics and Maintenance Symposium (MALMS) is an annual forum for the U.S. military and supporting industry to engage in deliberate discussions on everything related to aircraft maintenance, logistics and sustainment operations, including presentations on emerging trends, challenges, and evolving threats – all to ensure U.S. military readiness and dominance. This event is your opportunity to join top military and c...

Take a journey with Informatica and Carahsoft as we view mission readiness through the prism of VAULTIS. The Department of Defense has mandated all DoD leaders "treat data as a weapon system and manage, secure, and use data for operational effect." To achieve this mandate, the DoD Data Strategy lays out seven goals to transition towards data-centric operations: VAULTIS, to make data Visible, Accessible, Understandable, Linked, Trustworthy, Int...

FITARA Implementation Symposium III Theme: Assessing the Financial Management Impact Transparency is a key element of FITARA. Agencies will need to trace plans, investments, budgets, procurements and resources to business and mission outcomes. The approaches pioneered to enhance visibility across the CxO communities can benefit all areas of Government. Initial Scorecards On November 4 the House Oversight and Government Reform, Information Tech...

Don't miss this event presented by the Government Information Technology Executive Council (GITEC). In July 2015, Ms. Council joined the Department of Veterans Affairs as the Assistant Secretary for Information and Technology (OI&T) and Chief Information Officer. In this role, Ms. Council oversees the day-to-day activities of VA’s $4 billion IT budget and over 8,000 IT employees to ensure that VA has the IT tools and services needed...

Department of the Army Assistant Secretary for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology (ASAALT) is holding an Industry Day on May 28 to engage industry and academia in discussion on a Cyber Innovation Challenge that leads to an OTA-based funding award. The Industry Day addresses how the Army plans to use the Section 845 Prototype Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) authority to access new cyberspace capabilities that build upon, re-use and augment...

ADAPT Open Meeting Agile and EVM in DoD: Progress and Challenges April 17, 2015 8:30 AM - 11:00 AM Navy League Building2300 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA Continental breakfast at 8:00 AM Purpose A discussion with two senior DoD leaders of the changing IT policy towards adoption of Agile, and the challenges of applying EVM to acquisitions that are now employing Agile methods. Speakers DoD IT Policy Update - Efficiencies and Acquisition Reform...

"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe." - John Muir Digital connectedness makes us vulnerable. Cyber threats are one of the defining perils of our time. They threaten national and economic security and are aimed at governments, corporations, organizations of all types, and individuals. Personal devices, shopping, entertainment, telecommunications, manufacturing, supply chains, enterp...

Bending the Cost Curve: PlugFest PLUS In a June 13, 2014 speech at the Atlantic Council, Dr. William LaPlante, the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisitions, announced that the Air Force is launching an initiative to improve acquisition processes by "Bending the Cost Curve." (Watch Video) He explained that Air Force Acquisition processes are too rigid and too slow to keep pace with emerging global technologies. The result is higher...

Infocast’s 5th Military & Commercial Microgrids Summit returns to San Diego to bring key military, government, utility and end-user microgrid decision makers together to share their business and technical wants, needs and requirements for new projects. Early adopters and implementers of microgrids in defense, critical infrastructure, campus/institutional, remote communities and utilities applications will also be on hand to share les...

OUTCOME DRIVEN GOVERNMENT FORUM Achieving better results through new approaches to enterprise acrchitecture that focus on outcomes. Organizing Workshop This initial meeting is about establishing a community whose mission is to help Government organizations discover and put into practice new approaches to enterprise architecture that contribute to agency performance and deliver measureable improvements in results. Purpose Outcome Driven Govern...