I. Background Information for the Event: The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is soliciting Supplier participation in this fiscal year’s Supplier Relationship Transformation (SRT) Webinar. The SRT initiative is a part of VA’s broader effort to transform the end-to-end acquisition process which will capitalize on industry expertise as an effort to improve the VA acquisition process as a whole. During the webinar, VA acquisition l...

SANS Germany 2012 is coming up soon on 5-10 March at the Arcotel Camino in Stuttgart. This will be the first SANS training conference in the country since 2008. SANS is bringing some of its biggest classes back to Europe by popular demand.SANS Germany 2012 will offer three of the most popular, highly regarded, and in-depth training classes in the industry - taught by world-leading experts. We are very excited with the class line-up.A must for...

Beginning Monday, March 5-9, 2012 Telework Exchange will host the second annual Telework Week. Underwritten by Cisco, Telework Week is a week-long effort to encourage agencies, organizations, and individuals to pledge to telework. Individuals and organizations are encouraged to make the pledge to telework the week of March 5-9, 2012. For additional information and to pledge, please visit www.teleworkexchange.com/teleworkweek.

Participants will hear from the Federal Aviation Administration. Who should attend: Business owners who want to learn about what's on the horizon at the FAA.

Traditional Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) have heavily depended on the use of Relational Databases (RDBMS) for indexing. Extensive evaluation, trials, and experience have surfaced MongoDB as the ideal database technology for building a new breed of GIS system for Big Data scenarios. While Relational Databases can be very effective tools, they place a priority on long-running transactions, pre-defined fixed normalized schemas, and large...

Benefits Cities, states and the EPA are placing new emphasis on storm water discharges from industrial facilities, construction sites and municipalities. They are conducting storm water pollution prevention plan inspections at industrial facilities and construction sites. Some of these inspections have resulted in storm water violations with fines. Nationwide, storm water is a leading source of water pollution and consequently, EPA is moving f...

WHAT'S COVERED The vast majority of BI professionals are excited about the prospects of data mining, but are fully mystified about where to begin or even how to prepare. Of those who did initiate a modeling initiative, a recent data mining industry survey of predictive modeling practitioners reports that 51% of data mining projects either never left the ground, did not realize value or the ultimate results were not measurable. Despite its elus...

The GSA & DHS Building on 7th and D Street will hold its Spring Technology Expo in the Cafeteria and Room 5009 on the fifth floor. This building houses the Department of Homeland Security CIO's Office and the GSA Office of Information Security. Sponsored by the GSA's Center for Information Security Services, the expo will be open to all personnel of the building. About GSA and DHSAgencies count on GSA`s National Capital Region (NCR) to off...

Benefits Storm water regulations are constantly evolving - have your practices evolved with them? From recent litigation to changing permitting standards, failing to stay on top of current issues related to storm water regulation is risky. In this seminar, you will get answers to all your questions, such as: What new case and policy decisions impact my practices? What are the latest trends in the water quality arena? Here is your chance to lea...

As federal agencies continue to journey to the cloud and establish more densely consolidated data centers, the question about how to effectively move applications to a cloud environment, while maintaining application performance, integrity, and availability for federal users using a variety of devices must be addressed. If this is an area that your agency is navigating, please join us on Thursday, March 8th for a webcast to learn how you can m...