Government Adoption of Open Source on the Rise Attendees of this webcast learned about the advantages of open source for business intelligence, such as: Reliability and security Reduced dependence on expensive proprietary software Non-restrictive licensing that enables rapid provisioning Lower licensing costs and lower total cost of ownership The ability to customize software for new missions and changing situations

Happy Holidays! There is nothing better than eating a bowl of chili on a cool December evening…. except when it is ALL YOU CAN EAT chili, wings and Nachos AND the proceeds go the Army’s Walter Reed Society. Join dcTechSource.com in a fun filled evening of great wings, hot chili, cold beers, and blatant networking, all while raising money for the Walter Reed Society. You know about Walter Reed. Well the Society provides special ser...

When it comes to stimulus money no one is spending like the Department of Energy. Join us December 15 for our next Federal IT Breakfast & Schmooze as we host DOE CFO Steve Isakowitz who is guiding the department’s momentous spending. And Steve’s not just a pencil pusher - as a former exec at Lockheed and Booz Allen, not to mention a Master’s in aerospace engineering from MIT, he knows the info industry wants to hear.

Public officials in government and education face more pressure than ever to provide excellent services on increasingly limited budgets. To meet this challenge, your peers and nationally-recognized thought leaders are gathering for a special half-day workshop to learn how information technology can help make your organization smarter, leaner, and greener. By interacting directly with top practitioners, you will gain practical insights that wil...

Public officials in government and education face more pressure than ever to provide excellent services on increasingly limited budgets. To meet this challenge, your peers and nationally-recognized thought leaders are gathering for a special half-day workshop to learn how information technology can help make your organization smarter, leaner, and greener. By interacting directly with top practitioners, you will gain practical insights that wil...

President Obama’s insistence that federal agencies lead the way toward sustainability practices has encouraged the huge Department of Defense to step up its environmental stewardship programs. Defense installations across the world have won awards for environmental initiatives; the Air Force and Navy are working to reduce energy consumption; and DoD logisticians are involved in a complex project to mitigate environmental problems as we draw do...

Washington Breakfast Club™ (WBC) is a monthly information exchange which features legislators, agency executives and officials from all branches of federal government presenting on relevant and timely information to interested industry participants.For the November 2009 WBC we are pleased to welcome our friend Mary Parks of the U.S.General Services Administration who was selected as Deputy Associate Administrator of GSA’s Office of...

MAPPS and ASPRS are once again organizing a dynamic conference around a specialty theme “Digital Mapping – From Elevation to Information.” This follows on the successful joint 2001 Conference on “Digital Elevation Technologies and Applications,” the 2003 Conference on “Terrain Data: Application and Visualization – Making the Connection,” and the 2006 Conference on “Measuring the Earth: Latest Developments with Digital Surface Modeling and Auto...

Brownfields 2009, where close to 5,000 decision makers from the private sector; local, state, and federal agencies; nonprofit and community groups; and academia come together for the most important conference of its kind in the world. This makes the National Brownfields Conference the largest, most comprehensive conference focused on cleaning up and redeveloping abandoned, underutilized, and potentially contaminated properties in the nation. T...

E3 2009 will focus on the intersection among innovative technologies, visionary policies, environmental benefits and emerging market opportunities related to renewable energy. How do we provide sustainable fuel, food, fiber and freshwater to a global population of 9 billion people in our lifetime? That’s one of more than 15 urgent questions we’ll explore during E3 2009.