8:00 AM Registration and Continental Breakfast 9:00 am Welcome and review of objectives for this meeting As the capital needs of the federal government are better understood, the issue of federal budget scoring procedures has become a point of discussion among policy makers within the Administration and on Capitol Hill. Simultaneously, the modification of FASB 13 will likely have an impact on the underlying way that the principles of budget sc...

Workshop Description This workshop is led by subject matter thought leaders and business consultants Mark Stein and Lilith Christiansen (authors of Successful Onboarding: A Strategy to Unlock Hidden Value within Your Organization; McGraw-Hill). The workshop is designed to help you improve, design, plan for and implement an Onboarding program for your Government Organization. Why You Should Attend Federal executives, managers and staff attendin...

Today our nation's critical infrastructure industries are benefiting from the latest advancements in communications technologies, and continue to thrive from the development of next generation networks. But as these industries rely more heavily on these networks, it is up to industry and government alike to make securing these networks a high priority. The Homeland Security for Networked Industries (HSNI)™ 2010 conference focuses on the...

About This Training: 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 detect...

The Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Commission of the Surveying and Spatial Sciences Insitute and the 15ARSPC Organising Committee look forward to welcoming delegates to the 15ARSPC in Alice Springs, Northern Territory, to be held between the 13th and the 17th of September 2010.This is the first time in the history of the ARSPC series that the conference is to be held in the unique landscape of Arid Central Australia. We are excited by the d...

This is a monthly recurring networking event - held every 3rd Thursday of the month from 5:30pm - 7:30pm in Washington DC for government contrators to share best practices. Hosted by Jennifer Schaus & Associates. This is a high-level professional event. There is no cost to attend. Please register http://JenniferSchaus3.eventbrite.com

How to Guarantee a Decision Maker MeetingPicture this scenario: After much preparation, you meet with a potential government buyer. You introduce your outstanding product or service, demonstrate how your staff is fully capable of meeting production and/or service demands, and show research detailing how you are competitively priced. The potential buyer is impressed, but at the end of the hour, he explains that while he is very interested, he i...

The conference focuses on real-world examples of how inter-agency initiatives are creating specific implementations of secure information sharing, interoperability, collaboration, and new acquisition paradigms. By attending, you will: * Interact with key leaders of information sharing, enterprise services and joint coalition programs* Learn implications of re-arranging DoD IT functions* Understand data management and sharing issues in conteste...

Last summer's impassioned debate over the Obama Administration's health care bill has faded, but the real work of transforming the United States health care system has only just begun. In order to expand health care coverage to more than 31 million uninsured citizens, the federal government has been given a host of new mandates, subsidies and oversight powers. Federal agencies can now penalize individuals who don't buy insurance and employers...

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....