Overcoming System Challenges to Achieve Greater Capabilities and Efficiencies In today’s austere fiscal climate, unmanned air systems are assuming greater roles and continue to increase in importance for the US military. The DoD FY 2012 budget includes $4.8 billion for UAVs. While they are relied upon more and more heavily for a variety of missions, UAVs still face key challenges in regards to communications infrastructure, data manageme...

This year’s event will focus on the challenges ahead for the JLTV, MRAP, HMMWV ECV and MTVR/LVSR, including what will be done in the coming year to address the shifting priorities and vehicle requirements in OCOs. The drawdown in Iraq and shift to a long-term, sustainment strategy in Afghanistan mean that now more than ever the military must develop vehicles adequate for these new missions. Shifting theater requirements and budget realit...

The Senior Leader Program is designed for senior managers in the federal government and comparable level military, state and local officials who wish to enhance their leadership potential or who are interested in preparing for the Senior Executive Service. The curriculum is based on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s Executive Core Qualifications and meets OPM’s requirement that participants in agency-specific candidate dev...

Social Media for Government Communications How To Engage Citizens & Enhance Transparency Using The Latest Web 2.0 Technologies Building on the success of over 25 social media for government programs, comes the latest forum from the Advanced Learning Institute – designed to help you transform the way you communicate. Several agencies are making dramatic strides in developing approaches and systems that work for them in their engagemen...

The Summit is designed for active members of the Military Services, VA, Federal Healthcare Agencies, Academia, and Industry HIT solution providers, and those in attendance will be expected to have a strong working knowledge of the issues at hand. The sessions are created to offer a full spectrum view towards the DoD & VA's efforts at iEHRs, and Federal HIE initiatives. The forum is also created to encourage a real, pragmatic level of discu...

Earn Continuing Education Credits for ASQ & Six Sigma Recertification With the current budget situation and the focus on efficiency, Continuous Process Improvement is critical to the future success of your department. IDGA will bring together the public, private and non-profit sector leaders to highlight trends and look toward the future of Business Transformation and Process Improvement. Whether it be in supply chain improvement, human r...

Performance based Lifecycle Product Support In a Time of Limited Resources Performance Based Logistics has become one of the Defense Industry's key strategies to extend the lifespan and improve the reliability of today's defense systems. Increased deployments and shifting acquisition budgets are driving logisticians to minimize system downtimes and improve warfighter support using innovative PBL approaches. The evolution of PBL is happening no...

In 2009, President Obama signed several executive orders tasking the government to reduce energy consumption and fossil fuel useage. As the nations single largest user of energy, the government is trying to lead by example. However, a large percentage of the energy used by the government is in the 500,000 buildings that they own. In FY2008, the government spent more than $7 billion of their $24.5 billion energy bill on facilities alone. This m...

Persons in the military, government, and industry with an interest in “warfare across the Spectrum” from its roots in Electronic Combat to its contemporary EMS Warfare applications should attend this overview course. The course is intended to instill and reinforce a common level of knowledge on the operational contexts and critical importance of Electronic Warfare. It also serves as an effective, broad-based review for those curren...

Last year, DoD networks suffered an onslaught of an estimated 360 million cyber attacks. As cyber attacks on US federal and commercial computer systems increase at alarming rates, the risk for national security to be compromised is also growing. Through cyber espionage and data theft, China acquired Joint Strike Fighter (JSF-35) aircraft plans. On eBay, a hard drive containing US missile defense data was for sale. Both the State of Virginia an...