Congress has initiated significant reductions in Agency Budgets. Agencies must find ways to reduce costs while maintaining service levels and meeting mission requirements. Strategic Sourcing is a method to meet these goals. A previous OMB issued Memorandum to Chief Acquisition Officers, Chief Information Officers, and Chief Financial Officers initiated the commercial best practice of Strategic Sourcing. To date, the federal government has purs...

A half day seminar on the fundamentals of government contracting The federal government procurement process presents a steep learning curve for individuals and companies new to the market. This seminar provides the essentials that will help you get a faster start to pursuing opportunities and growing your business. What You Will Learn: Structure of the federal government Federal budget process Federal buying cycle and selling approaches Key op...

SANS is pleased to announce the opportunity to kick start your 2012 training with Community SANS Long Beach featuring one of our top-selling courses, Network Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking. This event will be led by Los Angeles based SANS Certified instructor Jim Shewmaker. For more information and to register, visit (http://www.sans.org/long-beach-2012-cs/). ********************************************************************** TRAI...

SANS is pleased to present MGT 525: IT Project Management, Effective Communications and PMP Exam Prep for Security Professionals and Managers at Community SANS Columbus, January 23-27, 2012. This class will offer 36 CPE hours delivered over 5 days (Monday to Friday). For full course details and to register visit (http://www.sans.org/columbus-2012-cs/) Also, Save over $300 when you register by December 14 The SANS MGT525 Project Management and...

Attention all newly appointed information security officers, technically skilled administrators with leadership responsibilities and seasoned managers that want to understand what your technical people are telling you. Now is your chance to see why students are raving about SANS MGT512 at Community SANS New York City, January 23-27, 2012. This specialized class teaches Security Leadership Essentials For Managers with Knowledge Compression(TM)...

Don't Miss The 9th Updated Forum Packed With Proven Strategies To Help Your Government Agency Revitalize Its Internal Communications. Several organizations are making dramatic strides in developing approaches and systems that work for them. The periodic sharing of these experiences and "best practices" is an important element in this communications evolution. That is why this forum, presented by the Advanced Learning Institute, is such a valua...

5th Annual Biometrics for National Security and Defense Summit Enhancing Identity Technology, Collection and Protection Download the full brochure for speaker and session information: http://bit.ly/qmWxvC As technology continues to advance and national security remains at the forefront of discussion, it comes as no surprise that biometrics for national security and defense is a hot topic. The ability for scientists and engineers to determine w...

The federal contracting market is constantly changing, and 2012 will see more extreme changes than any previous years. Attend this teleconference to learn what these changes are, how they will affect your business and how you can plan to benefit. Included with the teleconference is the exclusive TargetGov e-book created just for this teleconference. It will be valuable resource during the teleconference and beyond. Date: January 23, 2012 Time:...

Join top-rated Community SANS Instructor, Christopher Crowley, for Security Essentials in SANS signature bootcamp format. SANS is pleased to present SEC401 in New York City, January 9-13, 2012. Do you have colleagues who need this training? You owe it to yourself and your organization to let them know that SANS is offering this class right in your community so they can train without travel. See below for course details, or go to (http://www.sa...

Now you can learn at your own pace, when you have time from your desktop...at your home office or at work. We have adapted our 2 day comprehensive US Export Controls live seminar into an e-Seminar. The training is on a USB drive so you can take it wherever you need to go, no internet access required! e-Seminars combine videos of our highly respected experts John Black and Maarten Sengers alongside the actual power point presentations shown at...