SGTP's Annual Spring Educational Meeting is an educational forum dedicated to Best Practices in travel for the Governement Travel Workspace and how to effectively accomplish a well managed government travel program. SGTP shares effecincies and obstacles within the government travel programs and educates both government and industry on how to effectively promote, sell, and manage your government travel spending.

This is the 4th year of IDGA’s Cloud Computing Summit, where we bring together those who have an expertise on the topic of Cloud Computing with those who are seeking to implement it. This year’s summit takes place at an interesting and innovative time in the implementation of Cloud Computing in the government and defense industry. In order to further explore these new and exciting advancements in Cloud technology this year’s...

Big Data for Defense & Homeland Security January 29 & 30 | Mary M Gates Learning Center - Alexandria, VA DSI’s Big Data for Defense and Homeland Security Symposium is designed as an educational and training “Town Hall” forum, where thought leaders, policy-makers, military service members, government decision-makers and solution providers can come together for actionable discussions and debate DSI's Big Data for Defens...

Special Keynote: The Honorable Michael Sheehan, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict SOF SymposiumBalancing Special Operations Forces to Meet Emerging Global ChallengesThe symposium will focus on improving readiness through cohesive planning, training, doctrine, and policy that support the most appropriate and most effective use of special operations forces.Confirmed Speakers Include: The Honorable M...

Please join Palo Alto Networks and ThunderCat Technology for a Network Security Seminar & Happy Hour at TopGolf Alexandria on Wednesday, June 20th from 2pm- 5pm. Attend this seminar to help your staff identify the 10 things your firewall must do. After the presentation, enjoy appetizers and drinks while practicing your golf swing at this innovative, far from average driving range. Join us for the opportunity to not only improve your golf g...

“Automating Analysis to tackle the data surge & meeting current budget requirements” The past ten years of war have dramatically improved the IC’s ability to collect intelligence. With ever increasing technology and sophistication of sensors the amount of information being collected has overwhelmed analysis systems and current process. Today the Armed Services and defense agencies must accelerate the development and fiel...

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...

Information Sharing in a Contested Cyber Domain, Post-Wikileaks What will be the ultimate impact of Wikileaks on information sharing initiatives? Many think that the impact will help drive information sharing into a standards-based approach with strong policy foundations. The unfortunate Wikileaks incident points to establishing fundamentally sound and responsible information sharing policies and procedures. Information is most powerful when...

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...