Towards Enduring Solutions Building Capabilities for Multi-national Interoperability in an Era of Austerity Multi-national operations are the standard now for the U.S military. But are we learning valuable lessons about the challenges and difficulties of seamlessly connecting with coalition partners in military operations? Are we able to respond to these challenges in a time of budget uncertainty? Purpose:This workshop brings industry and gove...

Attacking the Impediments The DoD CIO's 10 Point Plan for IT Modernization targetsthe most pressing, near-term challenges. It addresses consolidating infrastructure, streamlining processes, and developing the workforce. This first goal under streamlining processes is to Enable Agile IT. The objectives are: Lead the development of an Agile IT development methodology Provide Guidance to DoD On Agile IT Best Practices ADAPT is facilitating this w...

Purpose The conference will bring subject matter experts and other skilled practitioners of both Agile and Lean, and to discuss how DoD acquisition is rapidly migrating to new, innovative processes. Attendees will: Learn how agile development is being used in DoD and integrated within traditional acquisition processes like Earned Value Management Interact with experts in both Agile and Lean to understand how these approaches are converging Id...

Information Sharing in a Contested Cyber Domain, Post-Wikileaks What will be the ultimate impact of Wikileaks on information sharing initiatives? Many think that the impact will help drive information sharing into a standards-based approach with strong policy foundations. The unfortunate Wikileaks incident points to establishing fundamentally sound and responsible information sharing policies and procedures. Information is most powerful when...

Join us for the Government Cloud Computing Executive Workshop – an intensive half-day focused on today’s cloud computing initiatives and tomorrow’s opportunities. A top-notch faculty of industry experts and government practitioners will discuss the challenges of the cloud implementations and demonstrate why this new strategy can and should be applied in government organizations.