DESCRIPTION: The Shared Services concept of sharing a service or critical expertise across multiple business or mission functions within a particular agency or across multiple agencies has been around for many years with the intent of building high-quality capacity through economies of scale. The goal for Shared Services is to improve quality, consistency, and timeliness, reduce duplicative investments, and provide cost effectiveness of servic...

Join us for a fireside chat with Dr. Ernest Reed, Director of the Category Management Support Office (CSMO), Office of Procurement, Acquisition and Logistics (OPAL) at the Department of Veterans Affairs. Dr. Reed will talk about the VA's implementation of Category Management as they work to buy smarter and more like a single enterprise. In addition, he will be talk about the challenges and opportunities inherent in implementing category manage...

The purpose of Imagine Nation ELC is to bring together the government technology community to discuss the issues facing government and work together to develop practical solutions and innovative strategies. We expect over 750 executives from government and industry to participate in what has been described as the “best event in the government technology arena.” Imagine Nation is planned and assembled by a planning committee of exec...

We would like to invite you to attend this year’s Data in Motion conference on March 30 at the Westin Tysons Corner where we will explore how organizations can succeed in the data streaming era. The conference will be centered around the theme of Meeting the Culture of NOW with Data in Motion, where we will examine the creation of Apache Kafka®, the open-source distributed event streaming platform that is capable of handling trillion...

DSI’s 11th Annual Unmanned & Autonomous Systems Summit will emphasize the integration of UxS capabilities into the multi domain operating environment as well as their use cases beyond the battlefield in support of DoD. The Summit will cover both strategic and technical priorities and emerging research to best support UxS utilization across the Services. The 2023 Summit will provide attendees with an educational, ‘Town Hall...

Defense Strategies Institute’s 6th Annual Military Virtual Training & Simulation Summit will provide a forum for members of the DoD, Military Services, Federal Government, Industry, Academia, and other relevant stakeholders to discuss how modeling, simulation, and virtual training technologies are supporting the DoD in its effort to improve Warfighter readiness and lethality for the future fight. The Summit will focus on efforts to l...

Reach Pacific Command personnel by joining us as a sponsor or exhibitor at the Cyber and IT Training Day for Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson (JBER) on Thursday, September 8, 2022. The purpose of this event is to further educate Cyber and IT warfighters at JBER on the latest cybersecurity strategies, remediation techniques, and resilience tactics. This will be accomplished through SME speaker sessions and an exhibit hall featuring cyber industr...

About the NAGC Communications School: The NAGC Communications School is the only event of its kind that provides invaluable networking opportunities and practical educational sessions to help government communicators increase their skills. Federal, state and local government communicators and contractors gather to network and attend educational sessions. Who Should Attend: Federal, state, and local government communicators, including contracto...

The 10th Annual Automated ISR and Battle Management Symposium will bring together senior level speakers from across the DoD, Military Services, Intelligence Community, Industry & Academia to discuss the modernization, integration, and advancement of ISR capabilities for the warfighter. With this, the 2022 Summit will aim to deliver vital intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance and battle management capabilities to ensure information...

DSI’s Military Vehicle Systems Summit is a ‘Town-Hall’ style forum that will bring together experts from across U.S. Military Services, DoD, & Industry to discuss current initiatives & challenges toward utilizing emerging technologies to help modernize our Military’s combat and tactical vehicles, and vehicle systems. The Military Vehicle Systems Summit will detail current and future DoD efforts that are aimed at...