On December 8, 2009, President Obama issued an Open Government Directive to direct all Federal Government agencies to "take specific actions to implement the principles of transparency, participation, and collaboration." A year has passed since this directive and while government agencies have made significant progress, only 17 of the 29 agencies fully meet the expectations set forth in the memo. While the 12 other agencies are making progress...

This IDC Government Insights web conference will look at how open source software is influencing government data center consolidation. Federal agencies have been mandated to consolidate data centers, and both government IT managers and commercial systems integrators (SIs) are focusing on the selection of open source solutions and open software stacks to help ease this transition. With federal investment, centralized open source solution stacks...

This course will first provide an overview of terrorism and the supporting technologies for data mining. Then it will describe details on data mining technologies, techniques, tools and trends. The applications of data mining to combat terrorism including adaptive data mining real-time data mining, social network analysis, semantic web mining and knowledge management for counter-terrorism will be discussed. Finally prototype systems that utili...

Happy Holidays! There is nothing better than eating a bowl of chili on a cool December evening…. except when it is ALL YOU CAN EAT chili, wings and Nachos AND the proceeds go the Army’s Walter Reed Society. Join dcTechSource.com in a fun filled evening of great wings, hot chili, cold beers, and blatant networking, all while raising money for the Walter Reed Society. You know about Walter Reed. Well the Society provides special ser...