Purpose The conference will bring subject matter experts and other skilled practitioners of both Agile and Lean, and to discuss how DoD acquisition is rapidly migrating to new, innovative processes. Attendees will: Learn how agile development is being used in DoD and integrated within traditional acquisition processes like Earned Value Management Interact with experts in both Agile and Lean to understand how these approaches are converging Id...

Supply Chain Risk -- understanding supply chain risk from cyber vulnerabilities and building trusted/assured sources of supply for defense, homeland security, critical infrastructure and economic well-being. Update: What’s happened since the last seminar and what’s new in the 2012 FY that we need to be aware of? What policy and legislation approaches are best in addressing this problem? What are new policies and models for trusting...

Purpose: This conference brings industry and government together to examine how technology is creating opportunities for optimizing supply chains, and the challenges of securing the information shared across supply chain participants. Attendees will learn about: Current strategies of Defense agencies to address cyber vulnerabilities and prevent counterfeits Needs and requirements of Defense partners for more secure information and communicati...

UPDATE! Now One-Day Only, Wednesday, January 25 & Fee is waived for US government employees! Shared Services Across Government: accelerating secure information sharing through standards. “We no longer operate largely on the principle of compartmentalization, that is, sharing information based on ‘need to know.’ We now start from the imperative of ‘responsibility to share’…” - James R. Clapper, Dir...

SharePoint4Gov - the nation’s only educational symposium designed exclusively for government professionals that are using or evaluating SharePoint as an enterprise information platform. SharePoint has become a de-facto standard for Government enterprise information platforms. It offers enhanced capabilities for connecting communities, building collaboration and improving agency and department performance, key objectives for budget-constr...

This 3rd Annual SOA & Semantic Technology Symposium will focus on the technology, standards and semantic interoperability required to drive DoD IT inefficiencies, move towards enterprise services which promote reuse, lessen redundancy and waste, and enable the Department to share knowledge and achieve enterprise business analytics. This year the focus is on the necessity of semantic technology to achieve interoperable business operations t...

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...

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...

The conference focuses on real-world examples of how inter-agency initiatives are creating specific implementations of secure information sharing, interoperability, collaboration, and new acquisition paradigms. By attending, you will: * Interact with key leaders of information sharing, enterprise services and joint coalition programs* Learn implications of re-arranging DoD IT functions* Understand data management and sharing issues in conteste...

This is not only a workshop on understanding the current state of cloud computing, it also addresses understanding your own IT requirements which dictate where and how cloud computing could be a fit with your enterprise. Cloud computing is the concept of leveraging IT assets over the Internet to provide more scalable, cost effective, and adaptable services to the organization. However, the concepts behind cloud computing reach much further. C...