Our "FOCUS" series spotlights one or more agencies (in addition to the other agencies participating). The FOCUS agency provides input and brings decision makers as well as outreach personnel. This month, our FOCUS is on Fort Myer!Fort Myer is a BRAC Location, and as an expanding military base needs just about everything! Open to all types of technology: Our combined agencies use just about everything, including, but in no way limited to: Infor...

About this Event: We convene this networking event for communications and PR professionals in the greater Washington, D.C. region. The reception is held under the auspices of our WNG Communications Roundtable, and presents a marketing and business development opportunity for companies and professionals to increase awareness of their products and services. Who Should Attend: Business executives and other leaders confronted by challenges in comm...

GovLoop and Young Government Leaders (YGL) are joining forces to enrich the lives of emerging leaders in today’s government. We have developed the Next Generation of Government Summit to tackle issues the next generation is facing in their daily government lives. By educating, inspiring and transforming the current and future leaders of government through case studies and hands on training we will help make government cool! The 1st Next...

Operations, Maintenance, and Commissioning July 1, 2010 First Thursday Seminar #6 Operations, Maintenance, and Commissioning provides an overview of operations and maintenance (O&M) best practices with a focus on corrective, preventive, and predictive infrastructure requirements and commissioning for existing buildings. Date: July 1, 2010 Time: 1:30 ET Length: 90 minutes Instructor: Ray Pugh; Pacific Northwest National Laboratory FEMP Exp...

WHO SHOULD ATTEND? Anyone who has an interest in learning or improving skills necessary to implement the Obama Labor Relations Executive Order. This includes HR practitioners, union officials, members of bargaining teams, legal staff, neutrals, and line managers. OVERVIEW OF TOPICS COVERED: - A close look at traditional or distributive bargaining and its limitations,- An in-depth review of win-win bargaining to include tools, techniques, and...

Government in today's business environment is facing new management paradigms. Agencies are facing demands for decreased development costs, reduced time to deployment, and increased scrutiny into capital investments. New business solutions must address these shifts. These new solutions must also address the evolving pressures of regulatory requirements including the latest demands for transparency and accountability, combined with the prolifer...

Mocana, which secures the “Internet of Things,” protects the 20 billion non-PC devices that are increasingly connecting to networks across every sector of our economy including Federal and Medical. These devices already outnumber workstations on the Internet by about five to one. Each device represents a comparatively easy way to infiltrate the rest of the network as hacks, malware and viruses grow more numerous and sophisticated....

Nations around the world are grappling with the challenge of “open government”. Many are openly stating that they embrace it, most are struggling to understand what it is and how to actually implement it. Why are they so intent on this? Because the people, the constituents they serve, of all kinds, from families to communities, corporations to small business and non-profits, and public sector employees themselves are demanding it....

Join us in Boston, June 23–25, 2010, for the 2010 USENIX Annual Technical Conference. USENIX ATC '10 will again bring together leading systems researchers for cutting-edge systems research and unlimited opportunities to gain insight into a variety of must-know topics, including virtualization, system administration, cloud computing, security, and networking. The technical program begins on Wednesday, June 23, and includes refereed papers...

While Congress debates making telework programs a requirement in federal agencies, the Office of Personnel Management is launching a telework pilot program. The bill under consideration would eventually require 20 percent of the eligible federal workforce to telework about one day per week. And OPM’s Results-Only Work Environment program allows 400 federal employees to decide when and where to work, as long as they meet high performance...