This is an interactive course designed to help participants learn about key tools that will help improve emergency preparedness and enhance communication during dam and levee failures and incidents. Participants will gain a better understanding of the emergency action planning process, including evacuation planning and emergency response methods. Learning objectives attendees will receive from this course: Learn how to improve the integrated o...

Data fabric and data mesh are two concepts frequently mentioned in conversations surrounding enterprise data management. Over the past two decades, enterprise public and private sector organizations have managed data by oscillating through cycles of centralization and decentralization. Despite the abundance of options, the conundrum remains — data consumers want data to be in one place, and easy to find. Collecting all the data into a si...

COURSE OBJECTIVES This seminar provides comprehensive instruction in inspection and evaluation techniques for dams. The principles, concepts and procedures taught will be readily adaptable to any organization conducting dam inspections and evaluating their compliance with current design standards. The target audience is state and federal dam owners/regulators, local and private dam owners/operators, consulting engineers and personnel responsib...

Contract changes are inevitable and must be anticipated and properly managed. They can involve everything from the interpretation of the statement of work to the minutes of a meeting. Changes can impact the success of your contract, as well as the relationship between the parties. This seminar will address what constitutes a change, how changes arise, who is authorized to issue and respond to changes (and how to respond), knowing when and how...

Overview The Defense Systems Acquisition Management course meets the needs of defense industry program managers in today's dynamic environment, providing the latest information related to: Defense acquisition policy for weapons and information technology systems including discussion of the DoD 5000 series (directive, instruction, and guidebook). Defense acquisition and reform and initiatives. Defense acquisition procedures and processes. The P...