Dealing with the New Realities, Opportunities and Challenges in Global ISR Continuing gaps in intelligence information sharing capabilities post 9/11, emerging requirements for new “ISR surges” in Afghan and Iraqi operations, ISR challenges associated with new counter-insurgency and counter-terrorism operations, increased roles for ISR assets across a broad range of new and evolving missions (space defense, maritime domain awarenes...

DoD and the Services have sustained a tremendous operational tempo through a period of unprecedented requirements, while being burdened with severe asset constraints. Performance has been improved by up to 50% in velocity and precision throughout the supply chain system, and almost $700 million in savings have been implemented. However, this ongoing stress, in terms of constant change and overwhelming requirements, has led to daunting sustaina...

The contracting officer’s representative (COR/COTR) plays an essential role in the planning, awarding and management of the government contract. They are the “eyes and ears” of the contracting officer in ensuring that technical requirements are being met and that the contractor is adhering to the terms and scope of the contract. Their technical expertise and project management skills are critical in designing performance-base...

This two-day forum goes above and beyond basic training to focus on current, real-life issues COTRs face under changing procurement rules. The course is organized to give COR/COTRs a direct opportunity to discover better ways of communicating in resolving contractor concerns as well as problems between the program/project offices and the contracts area. Recent contracts will be used to illustrate state-of-the-art topics and concerns presented...

The Advanced Improvised Explosive Devices workshop is designed to address the growing threat of terrorists’ tactics, techniques and procedures utilizing improvised explosive devices. With the ever present ability to easily acquire materials necessary to construct improvised explosive devices, there is a need to educate and familiarize first responders to the fundamentals of common explosive ordnance, explosive detection systems, CBRNE th...

2010 IEEE International Radar Conference "Global Innovation in Radar" Please join us for the 2010 IEEE International Radar Conference in Washington DC, USA. The 2010 conference theme is “Global Innovation in Radar”, and a diverse technical program will be offered. The Radar2010 Organizing Committee invites you to submit one or more papers to the upcoming conference. Topic areas include: Phenomenology & Modeling, Radar Systems...

Inside Aerospace – An International Forum for Aviation and Space Leaders The 2010 Inside Aerospace Forum will bring together leaders from the United States and abroad for a candid discussion of how to make aviation more energy efficient and “green” and how to effectively use aerospace technology to understand and limit climate change. The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) has partnered with the Interna...

For the past eleven years, government leaders have gathered to explore the latest mandates and best practices in performance management, program measurement and evaluation at the annual Government Performance Summit. The Summit is led by speakers from the upper echelons of the Executive branch and leading Government Managers who offer their experience and advice to managers looking to improve the results earned by their programs and agencies ...

Accidental/intentional destruction of data, hardware failure or cyber attacks can happen at any time and you may be called upon to respond, investigate, document, handle, and escalate the analysis to a formal investigation. In this two day hands-on workshop, you'll consider when investigations are appropriate or warranted, and learn how and when to recover lost or deleted information from the Recycler Bin (Info2 file), Disk Directory/Master-Fi...

Human Capital Management Federal (HCMF) Recruitment Strategy Day is a one-day training conference on recruitment strategies and hiring reform across the Federal Government to be held Wednesday, May 4, 2011 in Arlington VA. Building on the success of the annual Human Capital Federal (HCMF) and Human Capital Defense (HCMD) training conferences which are industry leaders in educational content and networking for the Federal HR community, this eve...