By appointing the government’s first Chief Performance Officer, President Obama signaled his intention to focus agencies’ work on setting goals, measuring performance and achieving results. Innovative practices aimed at promoting these objectives are emerging from the White House, the Office of Management and Budget and in major agencies as well. Learn from experts about the fast-developing art and science of delivering ever more e...

This one-day event will bring together decision-makers from the Federal government and industry for insightful debates/solutions surrounding the issues of employee learning and retention. Please plan to join your Federal colleagues to discover ideas that will help you manage your agency's most important resource of all – PEOPLE! The National Technical Information Service (NTIS), an agency of the Department of Commerce, serves as an Offic...

Symposium Registration NOW OPEN Registration for the 2010 NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM on Homeland Security and Defense is now open. DATES: Convening at 1:00PM, October 27-29, 2010. PLACE: The Broadmoor Hotel, Colorado Springs, CO COST: Industry and Civilian-$600.00 Military and Government-$400.00 INCLUDES: Registration includes admittance to the general session, coffee breaks, receptions, and the Conference Banquet to be held Thursday, Oct. 28, 2010. N...

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...

The Federal Business Council is proud to host the National Reconnaissance Office Cyber Security Technology Expo, as part of Cyber Security Awareness Month. This event will be held in the NRO cafeteria at the Chantilly, VA Headquarters.Themed Our Shared Responsibilities, Cyber Security Month will be a month-long series of Cyber Security activities, ending with the highlighted Cyber Security Technology Expo. NRO is looking to educate their emplo...

Virtualization is having a significant impact across infrastructure and operations. This webinar presents a concise focus on what actions you need to take in the virtualization as a core IT scenario realizing better savings across IT and enabling many other IT projects and functions. Virtualization now drives efficient IT from all angles, including data center design, power and cooling initiatives, platform refresh, application and infrastruc...

GOSCON 2010 • October 27 - 28 2010 • Portland, Oregon • The Nines Hotel Registration is now open for GOSCON 2010! registration fees - full pass to conference & exhibits, meals, reception and materials, plus igniteGov evening: government and not for profit registration (early bird) $195.00 Corporate (early bird) $295.00 early bird registration discount has been extended to Oct 18 Stay at the Conference Hotel - Discount Extend...

The global series of Hacker Halted conferences is an event not to be missed by security professionals and all concerned with information security. The objective of Hacker Halted is aimed at raising international awareness towards increased education and ethics in IT Security. Jointly presented by EC-Council and Questex Asia, Hacker Halted Singapore will be the 17th iteration of this successful information security conference series, also been...

Strategic Workforce Planning for Government Day One: Create an Effective Human Capital Plan Identify the key components and processes for creating and executing a human capital plan Day Two: Planning for the Future of your Workforce and Agency Learn how to develop the HR structures that enable your workforce to stay mission focused Day Three: Building a System to Support Workforce Excellence Create a roadmap to close the gap between the curren...