Government in today's business environment is facing new management paradigms. Agencies are facing demands for decreased development costs, reduced time to deployment, and increased scrutiny into capital investments. New business solutions must address these shifts. These new solutions must also address the evolving pressures of regulatory requirements including the latest demands for transparency and accountability, combined with the prolifer...

Mocana, which secures the “Internet of Things,” protects the 20 billion non-PC devices that are increasingly connecting to networks across every sector of our economy including Federal and Medical. These devices already outnumber workstations on the Internet by about five to one. Each device represents a comparatively easy way to infiltrate the rest of the network as hacks, malware and viruses grow more numerous and sophisticated....

Nations around the world are grappling with the challenge of “open government”. Many are openly stating that they embrace it, most are struggling to understand what it is and how to actually implement it. Why are they so intent on this? Because the people, the constituents they serve, of all kinds, from families to communities, corporations to small business and non-profits, and public sector employees themselves are demanding it....

NDIA's International Division presents a luncheon with the defense attaché staff from the Embassy of Belgium in Washington, DC. Each year, the International Division organizes a series of luncheons with the defense attaché staff from foreign allied and friendly embassies. The purpose of these luncheons is to provide industry with an opportunity to dialogue with foreign government representatives and for attaché staff to pr...

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...

While Congress debates making telework programs a requirement in federal agencies, the Office of Personnel Management is launching a telework pilot program. The bill under consideration would eventually require 20 percent of the eligible federal workforce to telework about one day per week. And OPM’s Results-Only Work Environment program allows 400 federal employees to decide when and where to work, as long as they meet high performance...

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...

In-agency technology expositions are time- and cost-effective for both on-site personnel and the exhibiting companies. The result is an efficient, orderly dissemination of information to personnel and an effective means of marketing for technology vendors.Each year, NCSI produces more than 125 in-agency technology expositions. These tabletop events consist of 25-50 technology companies exhibiting the latest in mission-related, emerging technol...

Information on government websites must be "findable", relevant and compliant with federal mandates. These converging requirements require reanalyzing of both process and strategy to manage and govern website content as well as improving strategy around the website content. This symposium will help CXOs and their staff, Web managers, Communications, IT, program managers and Inspector Generals responsible for supervising, developing, maintainin...

In order to win and do business with the U.S. Department of Defense, your company must comply with complex FAR and DFARS requirements governing the procurement process and contract performance. Failure to master the ins and outs of compliance can (and likely will) mean lost business and the possible release of proprietary information to your competitors. As the competition for DoD business intensifi es, it is critical to know how to maximize t...