YAFCEA Bethesda is proud to host:8th Annual Winter IT Luncheon While agency budgets remain heavily scrutinized, government leaders are looking to apply new technologies, strategy and processes to achieve measurable results. Speakers and guests will come together for roundtable discussions on how agencies are tackling the budget squeezes while ensuring innovation. There will be opportunity for industry and government leaders to exchange ideas...

Join us for a night of celebrationFor 16 years, AFCEA Bethesda has supported charitable giving, including raising more than $6 million for charities benefiting the health, welfare, and education of children. The successful history of our A Night for the Children Gala and the generosity of the government contracting community enabled AFCEA Bethesda to help our receiving charities achieve significantly strong financial foundations. As we look to...

MAGIC 2013 builds on the success of last year’s conference, providing a one-of-a-kind venue where leaders from the major GWACs and MACS, GSA and VA Schedules, senior government procurement executives and contracting officers join industry partners to share their insights, plans and best practices to help agencies access the technologies they need to succeed. www.magicgov.org. WHAT YOU WILL HEAR Updates on some of the most popular multipl...

The budget has become more than just a battleground for agencies and IT shops, it’s become an issue of national debate. The result: a $1.2 trillion cut to federal spending over the next decade. With no agency or department off-limits, initiatives like data center consolidation, cloud computing and mobile government become even more important. But to be successful in this new environment, agencies will need to consider more than individua...

In the last ten years, the number of data centers has more than tripled. With the mandated consolidation policy put into effect in February 2010, departments are beginning to follow recently developed roadmaps for shrinking server farms. The aim of this consolidation policy is to reduce IT costs, lower energy consumption, occupy less real estate, strengthen IT security and expand the use of cloud computing. While there is no set timeline to co...

The Federal government invests $70 billion per year in information technology. This might seem like a sizeable amount to go around; however, government agencies are constantly challenged to do more with less, and they are learning ways to be nimble and deliver additional services with fewer resources. The Administration’s Open Government Directive signaled the reemergence of IT innovation and the Web as a platform for collaboration and c...

Law enforcement has primarily been a reactive process: whether it’s responding to a fire, tracking down a criminal suspect, or enforcing penalties on financial malfeasance. From the first, information technology was deployed to help augment law enforcement’s needs. As these IT systems have grown, so has the need to better manage them. For years, law enforcement has struggled with the task of linking these systems to provide greater...