On November 3rd, join fellow government IT innovators for this complimentary one-day event to discuss ways to engage, innovate, and improve government efficiency. Today, more than ever, there is a groundswell pushing for more open and engaging government. More than talk, agencies are now communicating within their own walls, breaking down silos to interagency collaboration, and engaging with constituents in new ways – with citizens, with...

Join Federal Computer Week, in partnership with Cisco, on October 21st at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, DC to hear experts from government and industry discuss a more deliberate and effective national cybersecurity strategy. Seminar sessions will cover: Understanding the Cybersecurity Adversaries The Role of Government in Making Cyber Progress Programs Underway that Empower Citizens How Using Network Capabilities Can Build Security...

Plan to join your colleagues at the Smart Facilities Forum to discuss the current mandates, opportunities, and challenges as agencies move toward smarter, greener operations. Attendees will learn how the convergence of digital and physical infrastructures is enabling better facilities management at the city, base, and building level. This is your opportunity to learn how infrastructure integration will help your agency identify efficiencies, e...

The Obama administration has pledged to ensure that every single taxpayer dollar is managed as efficiently as possible. The administration has kicked off initiatives to address contract management, performance management, information technology management and human capitol management, among other issues, but administration officials and agency leaders are facing many of the challenges which thwarted progress by their predecessors. Join us for...

In this roundtable discussion with federal IT pros, InformationWeek Government will explore the opportunities and challenges of creating private clouds in government data centers. Federal CIO Vivek Kundra wants government agencies to adopt cloud computing as a way of cutting costs, gaining efficiencies and quickly introducing new capabilities to federal employees and the public. Commercial cloud services are one way to do that, but government...

Congress has established a National Office for Cybersecurity at the White House, now requires federal agencies to conduct independent audits of their information security programs, and has established new policies for agency acquisition and procurement. Two years ago, Congressman Mike McCaul co-founded the first-ever House Cyber Security Caucus to address these areas of oversight and inconsistency. Join Congressman McCaul in a moderated discus...

Online Trust & Cybersecurity Forum Washington DC Sept 22-24 Celebrating our 5th Anniversary, the 2010 Online Trust & Cybersecurity Forum at Georgetown University will highlight practices to build consumer trust and help protect your business from abuse and exploits. Sessions are designed to provide a framework, practices and technologies to maximize consumer trust, brand reputation and data security. Participants will receive prescript...

The NDIA Legislative Information Division (LID) is sponsoring a Breakfast in honor of the National Aerospace Week. The goal of the National Aerospace Week is to highlight the important contributions of the defense industry with a series of events, September 12-18, 2010 in Washington DC. NDIA POC: Debra Stockton, dstockton@ndia.org or (703) 247-2595

Overview According to recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) estimates, losses from waste, fraud, and abuse in federal programs cost the government upwards of $90 billion annually. President Obama has made reducing these losses a major priority of his administration. On November 23, 2009, the President Obama issued Executive Order 13519, “Reducing Improper Payments and Eliminating Waste in Federal programs.” On March 22, 20...

Sheppard Mullin, Trust Strategy Group and Charles River Associates Present: The 2010 UK Bribery Act (FCPA On Steroids) V. The Reinvigorated FCPA -- Who Has the Bigger Stick! After thirty years of arguably lackluster application of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), the U.S. Department of Justice has now escalated its position on corruption and bribery in international business and re-defined it as a “national security issue....