The National Defense University’s Information Resources Management College (NDU iCollege) will be holding its 1st International Conference at the Shangri-La Hotel in Singapore July 13-14, 2010. The title of this event - “Regional Collaboration in Cybersecurity: Securing the Cloud, Web, and Virtual Networks” – brings together key components of today’s technology while answering the challenge of information security...

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...

The GSA/DHS Building on 7th and D Street will hold a Spring Technology Expo in the Cafeteria and Room 5009 on the fifth floor. This building houses the Department of Homeland Security CIO’s Office and the GSA Office of Information Security. Sponsored by the GSA’s Center for Information Security Services, the expo will be open to all building personnel.In 2009, over 200 exposition attendees included Contracting Officers, IT Speciali...

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...

As a result of the ‘Federal Data center Consolidation Initiative’ Government agencies are facing the challenge of reducing the cost of their data centers through consolidation and virtualization. While virtualization provides many benefits, the virtual infrastructure has different monitoring requirements than the physical. Join SolarWinds Head Geek and Air Force Veteran Josh Stephens to discuss affordable, effective and efficient S...

Today's government leaders wrestle with a complicated challenge. How can we share critical information – which grows exponentially each day – with citizens, private industry, and other agencies, while protecting sensitive data and complex IT infrastructures? Join the leading IT security and management pros from all levels of government at this one-day event. Learn, teach, and share your experience and knowledge. Learn About Standar...

A major complaint in many government agencies is information overload. How do you make sense out of all the data coming in and then use it to make a difference? In the past, too much emphasis has been placed on producing performance information to comply with a checklist of requirements instead of using it to drive change. This must change. Federal managers and employees at all levels must use performance goals and measures to set priorities,...

Join us at our June 17, 2010 Cleared Job Fair 11am - 3pm at the Westin Tysons Corner. It's an excellent opportunity for you to meet employers seeking security cleared professionals just like you. Our scheduled employers include CACI, HP, Stanley Associates, Inc., Advanced Concepts, Inc., Dell Perot Systems, Everest Technology Solutions, Invertix Corporation, Raytheon, Unisys, Verizon Federal Network Systems, General Dynamics - IT, L-3 Communic...