Make sure your policies and procedures are in compliance with all of the recent changes to Federal employment law. A number of significant changes to federal employment law have taken place in recent years. These changes affected employers’ obligations in areas such as hiring, wages, discrimination, and termination. During this topic, we will: (1) review significant changes in recent years; (2) take a look at the employment law changes i...

Government agencies are actively preparing their data to take advantage of emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML). In the face of heightened mission complexity and data proliferation, agencies are looking for ways to maximize the value and impact of data. Application areas are accelerating as agencies turn to AI to drive cyber offense and defense, robotics and automation, transportation security, and he...

Gain valuable insights on new EEO-1 law updates. There has been a tremendous amount of activity at the federal level regarding the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the EEO-1 Report. It has become abundantly clear that now is the time for employers to take steps to proactively assess their hiring, pay, and promotion practices to ensure that they are not vulnerable to equal pay claims. Similarly, it is important to stay up to date on...

Agent Orange, an herbicide used during the Vietnam war, is now classified as a human carcinogen. It enters the body through physical contact or indigestion. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) assumes that certain diseases can be related to a veteran's qualifying military service, which VA calls "presumptive diseases". The Agent Orange Act of 1991 allows for coverage for anyone serving in the Republic of Vietnam, including "Blue Water" vet...

DevOps continues to play an important role in transforming today’s digital landscape. With the rise of supporting technologies, the role of software development has become increasingly important. To quickly deliver new applications and services, IT teams are transitioning to DevOps models that close the gap between development and operations. Whether your development team is developing new IT applications or producing new in-house or com...

Winner of the 2019 Esri Partner Conference Field Operations Award! One year after first introducing Spike's integration with Survey123, ikeGPS was honored to receive the 2019 Esri Partner Conference Improving Field Operations Award. In addition, Esri has enhanced the integration between Spike and Survey123 by adding Point-to-Point Measurements to the integration. Point-to-Point allows you to measure the distance between two objects in seconds...

Agencies need good, clean data in order to make informed decisions. However, manually culling data into pipelines is time consuming and error prone. Take, for example, how federal agencies aggregate healthcare data from states. If that information is improperly reported and stored for federal healthcare agencies, it’s useless. The good news is that there are new tools and resources out there to help agencies. Join us online Thursday, Jun...

Space is an Electronic Warfare domain, just like land, sea and air. We are significantly dependent on satellite assets and those assets are vulnerable to enemy kinetic or electronic attack. In ground, sea and air based EW, the closer we get to targets, the better we can intercept or jam them. Satellite borne systems are by their nature far away—creating challenges that require careful consideration. This is a two part on-demand webinar....

2019 State of the Phish ReportPhishing continues to be the number one attack vector. Why? Because it works — all too well. Industries of every kind fall prey to these scams — from financial organizations to government contractors to healthcare firms. Today’s cybercriminals manage to evade even the most sophisticated security technology through carefully planned, socially engineered email attacks that are only getting more adv...

As an FSC member it is critical to know and understand your roles and responsibilities, but there are always questions/sticky points that arise. The FSC Panel Discussion webinar will allow you, the FSC member, to hear lessons learned and ask questions such as: How often do you hold your FSC meetings? As a Chair, how long do you keep FSC records and where do you store them electronically? How do you ensure each tenant gets a copy? How do you ge...