The Human Resource Competencies for Federal Supervisors course is designed to help new supervisors acquire the skills they need to make effective Human Resource Management decisions. The course provides the knowledge and skills-base essential for establishing a solid foundation for making human resource management decisions and supports federal supervisors in meeting critical human resource management competencies. The design includes a wide v...

Please join FPMI and the Federal Management Institute for a Labor and Employee Relations Symposium. This two-day event will offer a variety of informative sessions geared towards Federal LR and ER professionals. Session Topics Include: Building Interest Based Relationships Beyond Mediation: An Introduction to Multiple Methods for Conflict Resolution Performance vs. Conduct; Walking the Fine Line Handling ULPs Effectively Merit Systems Principl...

The OpTac International SWAT and Critical Incident Management Program will be held August 14-15, 2014 in Hagerstown, Maryland. This program is based on the book, SWAT Operations and Critical Incidents: Why People Die written by Stuart A. Meyers, and includes his Harvard University prize-winning research on the complexities of critical incident management. Law enforcement administrators, executive officers, incident and tactical commanders, and...

Since 2010, federal initiatives to make computing more efficient and less expensive by reducing the size of government data centers have not reached the goal set by the Office of Management and Budget. Currently, the House and Senate are actively working to transition the Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative (FDCCI) from initiative to law. Agencies will face challenges to adhere to this Congressional oversight, including exploring new...

Reduce Risk & the Administrative Nightmare: Key Management for Storage Encryption Explosive data growth, sophisticated data breaches, government regulations, and data storage requirements have caused agencies to deploy a combination of storage security solutions. Often, agencies rely on vendor-specific key management, which leads to fragmented, unsecure key stores and policies that need to be managed and maintained individually. Disparate...

Infoblox Tackles Availability and Security Risks in Microsoft DNS/DHCP Environments Your current Microsoft DNS and DHCP deployment is not sufficiently secure and available for modern network demands. If you think you’ve outgrown your Microsoft DNS and DHCP, join us to hear how Infoblox DDI delivers the security, availability, and overall operational efficiencies you don’t currently get from using Microsoft DNS and DHCP. The Infoblo...

WORKSHOP "UNDERSTANDING GOVERNMENT SOLICITATIONS (RFP) AND THE FAR" $350 for this workshop or $500 for both workshops This class can be used as a FAC-COR & P/PM Level II or III elective This is a course every federal employee should take This Washington, DC class on Understanding Solicitations (Requests for Proposals) and a FAR Overview is intended for employees in both industry and government desiring a greater understanding of how to rea...

DON'T MISS THIS GREAT WORKSHOP AND CHANCE TO LEARN ALL YOU CAN ABOUT: PERFORMANCE WORK STATEMENT DEVELOPMENT FOR $350 OR if you really want to SAVE take both days for $500. This class can be used as a FAC-COR & P/PM Level II or III elective This is a course every federal employee and industry BD sepcialist should take This class on the development of Performance Work Statements (PWS) and is intended for employees in both industry and gover...

Solutions Forum: The Drivers of Network Transformation The mission: operate a more cost-effective, agile network.Securely deliver critical services while reducing cost and complexity. Your challenge: create a more cost-effective, agile network using modern technologies. Streamline modernization by delivering radically simplified network architectures with proven data center class performance. Join this discussion to find out how Brocade, an in...

Organizations know they can save millions in IT budget dollars with Hadoop, but many do not know where to begin. Attend this complimentary webinar from Informatica & Appfluent to learn: best practices to your optimize data warehouse infrastructure how to pinpoint dormant data in your systems methods to Identify data and ETL processing for offload how to determine which data and processing are causing system bottlenecks