The NIH Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center (NITAAC) offers free training sessions for procurement teams who purchase information technology products, services and solutions. Each attendee earns 2 CLPs when you learn about our Government-Wide Acquisition Contracts (GWACs): ECSIII for products, CIO-SP3 for services/solutions and CIO-SP3 Small Business for services/solutions with socioeconomic set-asides. NITAAC is only OMB...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP) presents its latest e-Training Core Course, ESPCs: Five Phases to Success! This training provides an introduction to the fundamentals of an Energy Saving Performance Contract (ESPC), an alternative financing vehicle that allows Federal agencies to complete energy-savings projects without up-front capital costs and special Congressional appropriations by partnering wit...

Every department in the agency is a service provider whether that be human capital, finance, or acquisition. Yet, very few have matured the service model to the level of the IT department. While service relationships with the IT organization are well defined and automated, they are often inefficient, unstructured, or non-existent in other service domains. This webinar will explore how government leaders are leveraging IT service expertise to e...

Multi-tenant infrastructure is playing an increasing role in government’s drive to reduce operating costs through innovative delivery of services using information technology. This movement toward shared, multi-tenancy is the result of both new policies and emerging technologies such as: Data center consolidation is pressuring agencies to reduce their footprints, consolidate applications and data into denser, highly utilized data center...

FEMP Offers Training on Fundamentals of Life Cycle Costing for Energy Conservation 0.60 CEUs The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP) presents a new e-Training Core Course, Fundamentals of Life Cycle Costing for Energy Conservation. This training provides the knowledge and skills to improve Federal economic-based decision making, determine the total cost of ownership of project alternatives, and inform decis...

Government agencies have made significant strides incorporating cloud computing into their IT portfolios. From the OMB “Cloud First” strategy, to GSA’s Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP), the government is following commercial best practices to leverage the cloud. This webinar will touch upon public and private clouds and explore in more depth the blend of the two approaches, often referred to as a h...

Cybersecurity is one of the most serious economic and national security challenges we face as a nation, but one that we as a government and as a country are not adequately prepared to counter. Spurred by the Administration, government is charging ahead to establish a front line of defense against today's immediate threats by creating or enhancing shared situation awareness of network vulnerabilities, threats, and events within the Federal gove...

Get practical advice to avoid common mistakes so that you can prepare useful and legally compliant NEPA documents. Since 1970, the National Environmental Policy Act has been the cornerstone for environmental protection in the United States. To implement NEPA, federal agencies must prepare environmental impact statements or environmental assessments to study the impacts of their proposed actions. Unfortunately, some federal agencies, their con...

The Chief Financial Officers Act requires all Federal agencies to produce a clean financial statement on their budgets. The 2017 deadline for the military services is still four years away, and the Marines entered 2014 as the first to reach that milestone. Federal leaders face expanding mission requirements and shrinking resources, and internal controls and robust management are the necessary underpinnings of success. Relying on examples from...

The Department of Homeland Security plays a leading role in mandating the Federal Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) program to provide agencies visibility into their networks and identify cyber threats. Many agencies have implemented a number of security tools, and they are moving toward new methods to aggregate and analyze the collected data for a holistic picture of their security posture. Join us for a discussion between public an...