In the midst of digital transformation, we tend to focus on innovation and disruption in the context of technology solutions. Often we miss the most crucial state—that of organizational transformation, which is at the root of why we do what we do and includes the cultural changes necessary for mission outcomes to be realized. Join us, our partners and your friends and colleagues at this one-day event. You'll learn about the open organiza...

Join NCMA HQ as we host a full-day education and networking seminar. Attendees will receive extensive hands-on learning and scheduled opportunities to network with peers! Participants will earn 6.5 CPE/CLPs. Through hands-on experience you will learn how commercial contracts are priced and negotiated. Participants will work in buyer and seller teams (either government-to-industry or business-to-business perspectives) to perform assignments. P...

Join NCMA HQ as we host a full-day education and networking seminar. Attendees will receive extensive hands-on learning and scheduled opportunities to network with peers! Participants will earn 6.5 CPE/CLPs. Through hands-on experience you will learn how commercial contracts are priced and negotiated. Participants will work in buyer and seller teams (either government-to-industry or business-to-business perspectives) to perform assignments. P...

Join NCMA HQ as we host a full-day education and networking seminar. Attendees will receive extensive hands-on learning and scheduled opportunities to network with peers! Participants will earn 6.5 CPE/CLPs. Through hands-on experience you will learn how commercial contracts are priced and negotiated. Participants will work in buyer and seller teams (either government-to-industry or business-to-business perspectives) to perform assignments. P...

The 9th Annual Open Source Digital Forensics Conference (OSDFCon) will be held October 16-18, 2018 in Herndon, VA. This event allows attendees to learn about new software and meet the developers. Oct 16: A series of 3-hour in-depth workshops (to be announced in July)Oct 17: One full day of 35 minute talks focused exclusively on open source digital forensics tools (**free for government attendees**)Oct 18: Autopsy Training Here is what you can...

Join NCMA HQ as we host a full-day education and networking seminar. Attendees will receive extensive hands-on learning and scheduled opportunities to network with peers! Participants will earn 6.5 CPE/CLPs. Through hands-on experience you will learn how commercial contracts are priced and negotiated. Participants will work in buyer and seller teams (either government-to-industry or business-to-business perspectives) to perform assignments. P...

The 8th Annual Open Source Digital Forensics Conference (OSDFCon) will be held on October17, 2017. It's a single day event, focused exclusively on open source digital forensics tools, surrounded by one day of workshops, and two days of training. OSDFCon brings together developers and users within the digital forensics and incident response communities, and has become an important part of the open source ecosystem in digital forensics. OSDFCon...

In 2014 an announcement was made with plans to embark upon a new paradigm for purchasing by moving from managing purchases and prices individually across thousands of procurement units, to managing entire categories of common spend and total cost. The intention is to apply the principles of Category Management – used extensive in industry and other countries – to the Federal acquisition process. This is intended to be more than jus...

According to the Government Accountability Office, 70% of government’s information technology budget is spent maintaining legacy systems. With the ever-growing demands for innovative and mobile technologies and rapid solutions to citizen needs, agencies are seeking ways to shave dollars and time off the application development process. Innovations in software development like agile computing, platform as a service, and the use of open so...

The delivery of infrastructure assets over the cloud is one of the most significant trends in IT today, and the White House's Office of Management and Budget projects that federal agencies will spend more than $2.8 billion on cloud computing services in fiscal year 2015. Driving this movement to the cloud is the need for greater computing performance and efficiency with a reduction in risk and cost. Middleware plays a pivotal role in integrati...