THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED. With the issuance of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Memorandum M-13-08, “Improving Financial Systems Through Shared Services”, dated March 25, 2013, OMB, in partnership with the U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury), has taken the next step in the evolution of the Federal government’s approach to the assessment, selection, implementation and ongoing O&M of the governments ple...

Government Executive’s Government Business Council invites you to be among the first to see new research findings in a complimentary webcast: Protecting the Past and Creating a Path for the Future: Challenges Facing Federal Records Management The Presidential Directive On Records Management has brought to light the importance of upgrading and digitizing federal records to improve information management, as well as the necessity of collab...

WEBINAR PROCEEDING AS SCHEDULED FEMA's National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) plays a very important role in protecting communities and their residents and businesses from the disaster caused by flooding. It publicizes the areas of greatest flood risk, restricts construction with high flood risk, and provides insurance for the flood losses that are excluded from most homeowners and general business policies. These activities have a critical i...

Big Data for Defense, Intelligence, and Homeland Security Today’s Warfighter has access to an ever-increasing number of sensors, imagers, internet artifacts, open source and other sophisticated collection devices and mechanisms, to the point that a major challenge has become how to sift through this massive amount of information to find the most critical and actionable items of intelligence. Increasingly, this must be accomplished in nea...

Join NASEO, September 15-18, in Denver to highlight the states' leadership in energy resiliency, economic growth, and sustainability. Also, through a partnership with New Buildings Institute, NASEO is launching the first annual Getting to Zero National Forum, which will combine technical, market, and policy perspectives to showcase the growth of zero net energy policies and projects and discuss the future of these extremely efficient buildings...

TechNet Augusta "Modernization for Network 2020 and Beyond: Empower, Connect, Dominate!" September 10-12, 2013 Augusta, GA Strategically placed in Augusta, the home of Fort Gordon, this event will focus on empowering our armed forces with training and education aimed at ensuring soldiers, leaders and civilians have the necessary tools to implement network operations in the operational force and to better facilitate mission command. Attendees...

NextGen Ahead: Re-Defining NextGen Join leaders from airlines, government agencies, and industry providers for in-depth discussions and critical facts and data to move NextGen forward! NextGen Ahead offers a unique chance for the industry to gather and discuss impact and strategic and operational implications. This year we will focus on functionality, achieved results, and decision factors into next steps.

Several Federal Agencies are transforming their systems life cycle processes to an Agile approach but only focus on the core systems stages such as requirements, design and development. Oftentimes, they overlook the human factor and fail to ensure that the teams work in a collaborative and informed environment. The key to a successful implementation in an Agile environment includes transparency, inspection and adaptation. Karthik Srinivasan wi...

According to the Government Accountability Office, Federal agencies are currently spending 70% of their I.T budgets on maintaining legacy systems. This is over $50 billion a year, government-wide, being prioritized on outdated I.T systems over developing new capabilities. The government is aware of this problem and has developed new initiatives to modernize federal systems and adapt to an evolving government I.T landscape. Examples include: Do...

This live webinar will discuss the evolution of billboard regulation from Lady Bird Johnson's Highway Beautification Act through the current controversy concerning the nationwide proliferation of high intensity Commercial Electric Variable Message Signs better known as digital billboards (DBB) from rural Pennsylvania where there are three digital billboards in a one mile stretch of country road, to Chicago which approved 30 DBB for $15,000,000...