Overview of the Workshop: Lowest Price Technically Acceptable (LPTA) – Training for Government to Avoid the Frustration of Not Awarding a Contract the Government Knows May Not Meet its Best Long Term Program and Cost Interests. Almost every discussion with government CXOs, Program Managers, Contracting Officers and other Managers revolve around the challenges of evaluating proposals and selecting contractors based upon Lowest Price Tech...

Overview of the Workshop: Information systems security is considered one of the top priorities for most CIOs and agency heads. There are many pieces to security management, compliance and reporting requirements. With FISMA requirements, OMB requirements/DHS reporting requirements and NIST special guidance and standards (which are mandatory for compliance), many executives, managers and staff often have questions about what to do, how to compl...

Recent headlines regarding the deletion of records email at the IRS highlight the importance of records management of email in electronic format. These headlines underscore the importance of managing email according to policy, using industry best practice. This One-Day Workshop will provide the attendee with information to better understand what needs to be done by government agencies to comply with the Presidential Records Management Memo. A...

Social Media in Government, Investment Return Training Workshop: Making the Most of Your Investment Overview of the Workshop: Significant resources (time and funds) are being spent by the Government on New Media. The way your Agency communicates – to the public, to international audiences, and perhaps most importantly with its own employees – is in the second stage of a dramatic shift. (The first stage was the acceptance that soci...

Catastrophic response, challenges, and immediate lessons learned This July 2014 Continuity Training Workshop is the 15th Presentation of this very informative program consistently rated as "Excellent" by previous attendees - the Previous 14 times. (Material is Updated to Include the Latest Guidance from NIST, DHS and Administration Initiatives) We are so confident in the quality of this COOP Workshop, that we offer a guarantee you will be plea...

Special Early Bird Registration Fee$795 for Government Special Early Bird Registration Fee$895 for Industry Overview of the Workshop: Many federal agencies have begun adopting Agile principles and Lean methodologies with the goal of reducing risk and accelerating successful delivery of their IT investments. Across government departments and within their respective agencies, most efforts along this path of adoption include some of the guiding p...

Overview of the Workshop: Hiring federal employees was never an easy process, and so it is especially frustrating to both line managers and HR offices when a new hire leaves after a year or even sooner. In today’s budget environment, with hard or soft hiring freezes, and early out and buyouts becoming ever more common, it is especially important that once a job offer has been accepted that the agency be able to retain the new hire for a...

Overview of the Workshop: The OMB Circular, No. A–11, Part 7 PLANNING, BUDGETING, ACQUISITION, AND MANAGEMENT OF CAPITAL ASSETS says that all major projects will be managed using EVMS as defined in the Capital Programming Guide. That the information will be used to report to status against OMB 300 programs. EVM is a proven project management technique which will provide an early warning of project cost and schedule performance issues. I...

The FedRAMP deployment deadline is scheduled for June 5, 2014. The Federal Government will then require all cloud providers to have FedRAMP approval. If you miss the deadline there are new templates, new workgroups and new activities that should be part of your FedRAMP planning. This workshop will provide you an understanding the post June 5th FedRAMP cloud strategy and post deadline lessons learned for FedRAMP Security: What You Need to Know...

Cloud Computing and FedRAMP-Unwrapped is a one-day, in-depth,educational program for Government Executives, Managers, Program Managers and Staff & Industry Partners. This event is not a vender oriented conference, but a course that provides practical information for the Government and Industry on cloud security, the Federal Governments FedRAMP program and what agency leaders should be doing now. Potomac Forum is Authorized by ISC^2 to Awa...