The Biden Administration is considering finalizing two rules on sustainability and climate disclosures in the federal procurement process: the Supplier Climate Risk and Resilience Rule and the Sustainable Products Procurement Rule. This webinar will focus on the importance of these rules for safeguarding national security and mitigating the federal government’s climate-related financial risk. This webinar will feature national security e...

An introduction to High Power Radio Frequency/Microwave (HPM) Directed Energy Weapons (DEW) and their effects. The webinar will cover what HPM weapons are, the type of weapons – Narrowband and Wideband, how the weapons are like, but different from traditional Electronic Warfare (EW) and Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP), how the HPM energy couples in to a target’s electronics and their effects. We will also cover some of the basic modeli...

Join us on May 14, from 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Eastern for Preventing Fatalities in Confined Spaces at Dams. Most dams have facilities that include permit-required confined spaces. These spaces can include towers, risers, galleries, manholes, vaults, conduits, instrument enclosures, tunnels, adits, drainage systems, etc., that are often unmarked and possess several unique hazards to dam inspectors, operators, and trespassers that are not intuitive...

Join us for an exciting digital event where we will dive deep into the successful implementation of Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service by Petrobras, a Brazilian multinational corporation in the petroleum industry. Discover how Petrobras leveraged the power of AI to create ChatPetrobras, an internal solution focused on text generation and natural language processing and answering questions from users. Don’t miss this opportunity to he...

AUSA’s Noon Report webinar series features presentations by senior Army leaders responsible for key programs and initiatives, as well as contemporary military authors who weave together the past, present and future story of the United States Army. Please join us on Tuesday, 25 June, at 12:00 PM EDT, to hear a presentation by HON Rachel Jacobson, Assistant Secretary of the United States Army Installations, Energy and Environment. HON Jaco...

June marks the five-year anniversary of the Office of Management and Budget’s release of the Cloud Smart strategy. The shift to focusing on moving workloads and applications to the cloud when it makes sense strategically – versus keeping somethings on premise or standing up hybrid environments – is playing out in every agency’s IT modernization strategy. Over the course of two afternoons, Federal News Network will explo...

Join us on October 8, from 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Eastern for Tools for Designing and Assessing Spillways. Spillways are complex hydraulic structures with materials and geometries that are often tailored to unique site conditions. As such, the analysis associated with the design and assessment of spillways needs to be commensurate with the complexity of the structure and the risk posed by the structure. Some of the complex hydraulic issues often c...

The Biden administration is setting goals for agencies to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions across all federal operations by 2050, including a 65% reduction by 2030. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act gave agencies billions of dollars to advance those goals. Projects include decarbonization of federal buildings, fleets and the federal supply chain. Agencies also have seven goals to work toward including r...