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...

The OpTac International Tactical Command Program will be held August 11-13, 2014 in Hagerstown, Maryland. This program provides attendees with realistic guidelines and practical exercises to prepare for and enhance their command of Special Weapons and Tactics teams. Classroom presentations and tabletop exercises provide a detailed understanding of raid planning and execution, command post operations, legal and ethical decision-making, critical...

Collaboration is never more important than it is during an emergency. When first-responders and supporting agencies are responding to a crisis, they need the ability to coordinate their activities, share information and manage essential documents – and to do it all securely. These capabilities are especially important when the response involves multiple agencies working with systems that do not necessarily interoperate. In this webcast,...

ARE YOU PREPARED FOR THE NEXT DISASTER? Violent and deadly disaster events have affected more than 240 million Americans — about 80% of the nation's population — over the past six years, says a report from USA TODAY. It’s only a matter of time until another disaster strikes the United States. How it will affect you depends on one vital difference — PREPAREDNESS. The Global Conference on Disaster Management is the premie...

JOIN AOL GOVERNMENT EDITORIAL DIRECTOR WYATT KASH AND GUESTS FOR A FREE WEBCAST: How Federal Agencies Can Overcome the Barriers to Mobility-And Engage Citizens More Effectively One-third of federal executives involved with mobile technology say their agencies are now “walking” or “running” with mobile technology. That’s according to a new government-wide research study about to be released by AOL Government, from...

The 2012 Integrated Medical, Public Health, Preparedness and Response Training Summit is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). This training summit brings together HHS partners including the National Disaster Medical System (NDMS), the Medical Reserve Corps (MRC), the Emergency System for Advance Registration of Volunteer Health Professionals (ESAR-VHP), and the United States Public Health Service (USPHS). The In...

Delivering the right information, when they need it, and where they want it Traditional knowledge management systems used centralized tools to create and store information and then deliver it from a fixed portal to users on desktop systems.In the increased ops tempo of today's net-centric battle environment, those technologies and methodologies aren’t able to fully support the information needs of the agile warfighter.To fuel today...

This cutting-edge conference brings together military, federal and local governments, academia and industry to discuss their plans to expand their UAS use and to address the challenges facing potential expanded use of UAS. Presentations and Panel Discussions include: Incorporate Human Factors in UAS Design Launch and Recovery Equipment Interoperability Standards Payload and Sensor Integration Integrating UA into Civil Airspace Ground Station...

Two Ways to Participate: Watch the Live Broadcast Online Watch the event online as Cricket presents from Washington D.C. A lucky online viewer from each broadcast will be selected to win an iPad 2®! Join us online or in-person on June 7 as world IPv6 expert Cricket Liu, author of several books on DNS and IPv6, presents a variety of IPv6 topics, including: IPv6 basics Setting up forward- and reverse-mapping with AAAA and PTR records Running...

We would like to extend a personal invitation for you to join one of two 30 minute live demonstration sessions of Infoblox IPAM for Microsoft DNS/DHCP on Thursday May 12th at either 10 AM ET or 4 PM ET. We’ll show you how centralized management of DNS, DHCP and IP Address Management can lead to increase in network uptime, efficiency and cost reduction. We’ll also cover: • Enterprise requirements for IP address management ...