A Practical Approach to The Green Book Compliance The Green Book sets the standards for an effective internal control system for federal agencies, and is a crucial safeguard over public resources. State, local, and quasi-governmental entities, as well as not-for-profit organizations, may adopt the new Green Book standards as a framework for an internal control system. This one-day CPE seminar provides an overview of the principles-based Green...

A Practical Approach to COSO 2013 The COSO Committee's "Internal Control - Integrated Framework" (ICIF) is one of the accepted standards for implementing and assessing a system of internal controls for companies which are subject to SEC reporting. This framework has also proven to be a useful approach to internal controls in many different organizations that do not have a SEC compliance requirement. This CPE seminar covers the principles-based...

If your company doesn't have visibility in the federal sector, in all likelihood, you are not effectively seeing opportunity and opportunity is not seeing you. It's a problem more common than not and the damage being done is to a company's morale and its bottom line. CREATING VISIBILITY looks at effective ways of virtually and physically getting in front of government and industry decision-makers and influencers. Guy Timberlake, CEO, The Ameri...

Held the second Tuesday of every other month, GEOINTeraction Tuesday is a casual networking event where you can develop new relationships, exchange ideas and discover business opportunities. Each event features a guest speaker from the Defense, Intelligence, or Homeland Security Community who shares their views on current issues and answers audience questions.

USGIF’s Data Analytics Forum will bring together a diverse group of government, industry, and academia to discuss challenges and success stories related to how geospatial intelligence can be derived from and enhanced by data analytics. For years, the Community was overwhelmed by the tsunami of data. Now, analytic capabilities have expanded to not only absorb this tidal wave but also seek out new pools of information, putting together key...

The 2016 State of GEOINT content exchange will be held Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2015, from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. at 2325 Dulles Corner Blvd., Herndon, Va. Participation is limited. Government participation is especially welcomed. This half-day session will include GEOINT professionals from a mix of government, industry, and academia who will discuss and document current and future global geospatial intelligence trends. At the end of the session, we will h...

The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) invites you to its NRO Application Service Provider (NASP) Industry Advisory Working Group (IAWG) kickoff meeting Tuesday, Sept. 23, from 3 to 5 p.m. The government is in the process of defining the NASP operating model, technical architecture, and how and what it will procure. Help shape the government-industry ecosystem surrounding the NASP’s move to a Software Services Platf...

Early Bird Rate Expires on February 19, 2014 Autopsy is a premier end-to-end open source digital forensics platform for hard drive analysis that is used by thousands of digital investigators worldwide. The platform is known for being fast, intuitive, and extensible with a vibrant open source community that supports it. The Autopsy 3 Training class, led by Basis Technology, will be a hands-on case study providing an in-depth education on the Sw...

This August, the Administration’s National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) reached another milestone in the effort to create a common identity infrastructure for the Internet. A new pilot program from the US Postal Service promises a time when citizens will soon be able to access everything from federal health benefits to student loan information using a single ID and password. The project will create a cloud-servic...

A half day seminar on the fundamentals of government contracting The federal government procurement process presents a steep learning curve for individuals and companies new to the market. This seminar provides the essentials that will help you get a faster start to pursuing opportunities and growing your business. What You Will Learn: Structure of the federal government Federal budget process Federal buying cycle and selling approaches Key op...