Government Employees: $1,295 (Federal, State or Local Government Issued ID) Team Rate for Government: Send a government team to learn together. Register two government employees from the same office at the same time and the third person registers at 50% of the standard government rate. Industry and Contractors: $1,395 (Including contractors on-site and in direct support of government agencies). This event is NOT for industry business develope...

Objectives »»Learn to see new opportunities for creating value for citizens and customers, for removing waste from every process, and for creating more rewarding jobs for employees »»Understand how lean thinking can be applied in every type of office and service activity in local government »»Choose the lean pathway that is right for you and create your own action plan for implementing lean in your organizat...

Objectives »»Understand different strategic planning approaches and techniques and their attendant advantages and disadvantages »»Become familiar with strategic plan implementation and follow-up and how strategic planning fits into other organizational functions, such as budgeting and accountability »»Learn how to conduct strategic planning using interactive learning simulation exercises, or “learning...

Attend an upcoming National Contract Management Association (NCMA) National Education Seminar! The COR Member of the Acquisition Team: The Contracting Officer's Representative (COR) Guide to Performance and Quality The "COR Member of the Acquisition Team” National Education Seminar (NES) is designed to better illustrate the important role that the contracting officer’s representative (COR) plays in ensuring that the contract speci...

SAVE THE DATE FOR NCMA'S 31ST ANNUAL GOVERNMENT CONTRACT MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE (GCMC) NOVEMBER 5–6, 2012 · RENAISSANCE DOWNTOWN HOTEL · WASHINGTON, DC Join us for NCMA's 31st Annual Government Contract Management Conference (GCMC), November 5–6, 2012, in Washington, DC at the Renaissance Downtown Hotel. GCMC has long been known as the most comprehensive conference for government contract professionals. Last year's ev...

SANS SEC 464 Hacker Guard is a technical security awareness program for privilege users.Tuition covers 4- 3 hour days of initial training, program materials, 11 hands on labs, and quarterly threat vector briefing and tool updates to reinforce what was originally instructed within the curriculum for a year.The three key components of the program:1. The importance of Baselining. -Knowing what is normal/abnormal for Windows and Unix systems -Not...

Advanced Internal Controls in Government has been POSTPONED due to Hurricane Sandy. Details on new date coming soon. Government Employees: $995 Special "Early Bird" Reduced Rates: $795 until October 12th (Federal, State or Local Government Issued ID) Includes instruction, presentations, Training Workshop Notebook, and continental breakfasts, morning and afternoon refreshments, and luncheon at the Willard.Group: " Learn Together" Registration....

Join The Coalition on October 24 and 25 for its two day Fall Training Conference, Continuing the Dialogue. This training conference will address acquisition policy, the federal market and Excellence in Partnership. Thought leaders from government, industry and academia will give us their perspectives on changes that have occurred and are expected in the federal government’s $250 billion multiple awards contracting program. Well recognize...

Do you handle any part of the travel management process or need insight into the procurement side of managed travel? Gain valuable procurement insights and best practices at GBTA Procurement Symposium 2012. GBTA has partnered with the Institute for Supply Management™ (ISM) to present the GBTA Procurement Symposium 2012 - October 23-24, Los Angeles, CA. This event features up-to-date insights, tools, best practices, and strategies to help...

AFCEA Bethesda is pleased to announce an innovative educational symposium for government and industry participants who are or want to be on the cutting edge of smart technology and sustainability. The goals of the event are to make the business case for sustainability, show "big data" applications for energy management, highlight accomplishments with smart building technologies, illustrate saving from effective Federal fleet management, data c...