Social Media for Government Communications How To Engage Citizens & Enhance Transparency Using The Latest Web 2.0 Technologies Building on the success of over 25 social media for government programs, comes the latest forum from the Advanced Learning Institute – designed to help you transform the way you communicate. Several agencies are making dramatic strides in developing approaches and systems that work for them in their engagemen...

Building on the success of the 2010 conference, the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC), premier provider of information for the defense community, will host its 37th Annual Conference themed DTIC: Your Authoritative Source of Defense Information for the Front Line and the Homeland. The 2011 event will address DTIC's role as the Department of Defense (DoD) technical information broker. Speakers from government, private industry, and DT...

Earn Continuing Education Credits for ASQ & Six Sigma Recertification With the current budget situation and the focus on efficiency, Continuous Process Improvement is critical to the future success of your department. IDGA will bring together the public, private and non-profit sector leaders to highlight trends and look toward the future of Business Transformation and Process Improvement. Whether it be in supply chain improvement, human r...

Performance based Lifecycle Product Support In a Time of Limited Resources Performance Based Logistics has become one of the Defense Industry's key strategies to extend the lifespan and improve the reliability of today's defense systems. Increased deployments and shifting acquisition budgets are driving logisticians to minimize system downtimes and improve warfighter support using innovative PBL approaches. The evolution of PBL is happening no...

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...

In 2009, President Obama signed several executive orders tasking the government to reduce energy consumption and fossil fuel useage. As the nations single largest user of energy, the government is trying to lead by example. However, a large percentage of the energy used by the government is in the 500,000 buildings that they own. In FY2008, the government spent more than $7 billion of their $24.5 billion energy bill on facilities alone. This m...

IDGA’s Tactical Vehicles Summit is proud to announce its fourth installment as the nation’s foremost tactical vehicle event addressing the strategy, procurement, challenges, and opportunities with both an exhibition floor and summit. This year’s event will focus on the challenges ahead for the MRAP, M-ATV, and FMTVs in Afghanistan, including what will be done in the coming year to address the RESET of vehicles as overseas con...

Persons in the military, government, and industry with an interest in “warfare across the Spectrum” from its roots in Electronic Combat to its contemporary EMS Warfare applications should attend this overview course. The course is intended to instill and reinforce a common level of knowledge on the operational contexts and critical importance of Electronic Warfare. It also serves as an effective, broad-based review for those curren...

Last year, DoD networks suffered an onslaught of an estimated 360 million cyber attacks. As cyber attacks on US federal and commercial computer systems increase at alarming rates, the risk for national security to be compromised is also growing. Through cyber espionage and data theft, China acquired Joint Strike Fighter (JSF-35) aircraft plans. On eBay, a hard drive containing US missile defense data was for sale. Both the State of Virginia an...

The recently released Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) document has expectedly reemphasized the Department of Defense's (DoD) call for increased Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) platform, payload and supporting technology development and procurement, paving the way for a multitude of opportunities and growth potential. The QDR also reinforced Congress? December 2009 approval for full funding on the DoD’s 2010 UAS budget request, totalling...