All major Federal Government IT (Information Technology) programs must perform extensive planning and analysis as part of the OMB Capital Planning and Exhibit 300 process. This cannot be “just another paper process”. All stakeholders involved desire to make this OMB Capital Planning and Exhibit 300 process vital, not only for success of specific investment programs, but for overall Agency portfolio success.

This Webcast focuses on the best practices needed to bring added confidence to the Capital Planning and Investment Control (CPIC) process. The increased confidence gained from CPIC best practices will help optimize resource allocation during the planning process, and support better resource management through the program implementation.

Watch this Webcast with Ms. Janelle Hill, Director of the Federal CPIC Forum, as she addresses best practices for CPIC planning that are being documented in a CPIC Planning Guide. Janelle is joined by Mr. Bill Mathis, Sr. Director of Government Solutions at PRICE Systems, Federal CPIC Forum Board of Advisors member, and contributor to both the CPIC Planning Guide as well as the GAO Cost Assessment Guide, who addresses how to assure your program remains compliant with best practices.

Featured Speakers: Janelle Hill - CPIC Forum, Bill Mathis - PRICE Systems Facilitator: Larry Reagan, VP Government Solutions Division, PRICE Systems

Learn best practices in content management which improve security as well as automate and improve critical business processes, such as assigning documents to reviewers, annotations, mark-ups etc. using workflow and collaboration via our informational Webinar.

Oracle and The Mil Corporation, will present an actual case study of a Federal Agency and show how by deploying a successful content management strategy, documents, images and even email can be assigned, accessed, and tracked within or outside an organization’s repositories, and ultimately archived for search and discovery.

By watching this Webinar, you will learn valuable information on how to improve security for sensitive, critical information in centralized or disparate locations, and manage key business processes, such as:

• Correspondence Management
• Suspense Tracking
• Proposal Development

This Webinar will benefit executives and business managers charged with ensuring the security, content integrity and cost effectiveness of content within the organization.

Speakers:

• Wayne Boerger – Senior Product Manager, ECM, Oracle
• Raja Puli – Assistant Vice President, MIL Corporation
• Rand Ruggieri – eGov Program Manager, Department of Commerce

Did you know that VMware virtualization solutions transform physical servers into an agile, responsive pool of resources, and help improve IT staff efficiency by up to 50%? In fact, 85% of VMware customers surveyed said that VMware reduced their provisioning time. And 86% surveyed said that VMware increased their datacenter flexibility and agility.

Attendees will learn how virtualized datacenters enable:

• Server provisioning or maintenance in minutes
• Cost avoidance by optimizing existing infrastructure
• Reliability for mission critical activities like disaster recovery or first response
• Lighter loads with the same computing capacity for mobile units traveling in the field

Speakers:

• Lowell Marshall, IT Project Manager, FDA
• Kenneth M. Wojdon, Senior Associate, Booz Allen Hamilton, IT Virtualization, Consolidation, and Support, FDA OITSS Infrastructure
• Leena Joshi, Sr. Product Marketing VI3, VMware

Making network changes to increase security seems like an all-around win. However, rapid network changes can result in misalignment with policies, which can produce unintended security vulnerabilities and reduce resource availability. Agencies can identify and rectify these issues before they become major problems by implementing Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) programs to deliver network assurance. This approach enables agencies to:

• Gain visibility into connectivity, network segments, and devices
• Quickly identify risks, potential problem spots, and network gaps
• Prioritize what needs to be prevented or corrected immediately versus what the agency can manage over time
• Ensure integrity and availability of systems
• Gain an independent project evaluation, detached from project details or assumptions

To discover why network assurance is an indispensable part of any comprehensive IV&V program, join Federal Computer Week and Government Computer News for a complimentary Webinar, sponsored by Lumeta in conjunction with Intelligent Decisions.

Speakers:

• Mitchell Jukanovich, a former government employee with 18 years of Department of Defense experience and now Director, Virginia Intelligence Programs, Intelligent Decisions
• Roy E. Stephan, CISSP, Director of Cyber Security, Intelligent Decisions, Inc.
• Michael Markulec, Chief Operating Officer, Lumeta Corporation

Mission-critical facilities have an extreme requirement for system availability – 100%. No one knows this more than the government. While good system design is the foundation for achieving this goal, it must be accompanied by a stringent set of operational and maintenance practices. Mission-critical facilities- no matter how well planned- are subject to ongoing risks from potential design or installation deficiencies, operating complexity, equipment failure, configuration changes and of course, human error…. Learn how to offset these risks and achieve increased availability through proven maintenance methods.

What you will learn:

• Federal, state and local trends for data centers
• Industry best practices for maintaining and operating data centers
• Private sector client perspective on facility operations

Speakers:

• Mike Manos, Sr. Director, Data Center Services, Microsoft
• Elaine Wilde, Senior Vice President Public Sector, Lee Technologies
• Bob Woolley, VP, Facility Operations & Quality Systems, Lee Technologies

Government regulations and regulators are increasing the requirements to strengthen security internally and to protect citizens externally. According to ESG there are currently 10,000 regulations impacting data management in the U.S. alone. Worldwide that soars to approximately 20,000 regulations that governments, government suppliers, and the extended supply chain must meet. Security policy mandates to protect government data include the U.S. Federal Government’s IPv6/IPsec Mandate. Regulations to protect the public include Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA & Identity Theft Protection Act (pending), and California 1387.

Citizen, student and consumer privacy is a growing “hot” topic due to the rapidly expanding use of the Internet. At a global level we are seeing the introduction of many new federal, state, and industry-specific regulations that seek to control the way data is managed. The impact of non-compliance with these regulations can be lost revenues to an agency, risk and exposure to lawsuits or, at a more personal level, fines and jail sentences imposed on the fiduciaries, commissioners, directors, CIOs, and CFOs, who ultimately carry responsibility for the actions of their employees, for Governance and for non-compliance.

• Security is everyone’s concern.
• Your technical solutions are only as strong as the policies they support and the procedures built around them.
• To successfully implement security strategies you need to get management to drive them, IT and HR to implement them and staff to understand and respect them.
• Security is a value add and a business enabler.
• Imaging and printing security must be a part of the overall IT security strategy!

Increased demand on Public Sector administrations to demonstrate accurate financial reporting has revealed operational flaws. With government agencies now required to document, test, and sign off on their internal controls, federal, state, and local administrations must demonstrate better management practices. Oracle's Governance, Risk, and Compliance Application Suite provides visibility into risks and controls, ensuring integrity of operations and driving greater public confidence.

Hear from Gregory Williams, from the Federal Washington Practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Sean Cronin, GRC Sales Director at Oracle, for a webcast where you will learn how to:

• Automate OMB Circular A-123 and other GRC activities to reduce the cost of compliance
• Monitor and enforce controls to safeguard your reputation and budget
• Assess and manage risks to apply more results-oriented management
• Deliver true cross-enterprise support of users, locations, mandates, and IT systems

Concerned about leaking taxpayer's Social Security numbers? Don't want your Agency's classified information sent to Taiwan? OPSEC data leaving your network over peer-to-peer technology?

As the rate of internal security breaches continues to rise, pressure is mounting to mitigate the risks of data leakage to protect your Agency's personally identifiable information (PII), confidential information and digital assets. In this webcast you will hear from a panel of industry privacy and security technology experts including Barbra Symonds (Assoc. Partner/Privacy Solution Lead , IBM; former Privacy Director, IRS and Veterans Administration) and Captain Jared Phipps (former, Communications Officer, Air Force Information Operations Battlelab). Joined by David Etue, VP Product Management of Fidelis Security Systems, the panel will shed light on the reality of data leakage, the everyday risks that are emerging on a daily basis and how to assess the requirements for a technology solution that will give you proven results.

In this webcast, you will learn how to:

• Assure Privacy Compliance
• Protect PII, OPSEC Data, Digital Assets
• Manage Insider Use of the Internet

Speakers:

• Barbra Symonds, CIPP/G - Associate Partner in Security, Privacy, Wireless and IT Governance, Privacy Solution Lead, IBM Global Business Services’ Public Sector
• Jared Phipps - Director of Operations, San Antonio, Radiance Technologies
• David Etue - Vice President of Product Management, Fidelis Security Systems

On average, over 90% of existing IT budgets are spent on sustaining and evolving the computing infrastructure and delivering mission critical and utility services. Therefore, helping to reduce data center infrastructure costs represents one of the most substantial savings opportunities for most IT organizations. At the same time, business environments are more dynamic than ever driving the need for more agile data centers, with the ability to scale and adapt to changing business and user demands such as new business opportunities and mergers and acquisitions.

When making a purchasing decision, initial procurement price is certainly important – selecting the lowest cost asset in order to save the company money, but studies have shown that if you consider the cost of the asset from initial purchase through deployment, maintenance, support, management, and ultimately to retirement, less than 20% of the costs are for the initial hardware and software investment. TCO analysis helps decision makers make more intelligent investments by analyzing the total cost of the asset over its useful life. This ensures that the decision is not made simply on the lowest initial purchase price, but considers change costs, ongoing support and maintenance, and service levels which include availability of applications and data.

• Learn about Future Thinking Data Centers
• Manage and Balance your Data Center costs
• Increase the Decision Support of your Data Center Spend
• Learn how Virtualization can affect TCO
• Learn about your Data Center Assessment Options

Speaker: Tony D’Ancona - Vice President of ProConnection

Hampered by the growing complexity of your data center? Looking to increase efficiency while trying to control costs? Don’t miss this webinar, where you’ll hear how infrastructure virtualization and automation technology is helping enterprises drive down server complexity and TCO while increasing performance, agility and reliability.

In this webinar, you’ll learn how virtualizing your IT infrastructure can simplify your data center and enable you to:

• Lower server count by 50 percent and more
• Improve performance by up to 50 percent
• Provide high availability and disaster recovery to every application at virtually no cost
• Lower power consumption and heat while actually increasing capacity

Enterprise security managers face complexity at every turn. Agencies face more challenging threats from both external and internal dangers number. And nature of devices at remote endpoints grows by the day as agencies need to support more home-based employees, more mobile workers and more links with constituents.

These challenges can't be met simply by point solutions and patchwork strategies. Protecting organizational information from the next generation of risks requires a consolidated and integrated security strategy. That strategy must utilize a portfolio of the latest and most effective security tools, and incorporate careful risk analysis, support from management, and employee awareness programs.

Join Symantec and learn why a carefully integrated security strategy is crucial and how new technologies, such as the products within and the concepts behind Symantec Security 2.0, can help you to protect your valuable information.

Speaker: John McCumber, Strategic Program Manager, Public Sector Group, Symantec Corporation

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Business Process Management (BPM) are often initiated independently but they share a common goal -- increased enterprise agility. Unlock the value of this new architecture for your enterprise. Learn how to align business with IT by combining SOA and BPM projects for greater benefits, faster results, and the agility to adapt to ongoing change.

During this informative session, you will learn:

• The definitions of SOA and BPM and the strategic relationship they share as it relates to agility
• The implications derived from linking SOA and BPM
• The value proposition achieved by aligning SOA and BPM initiatives
• How BPM enabled by SOA leads to better business decisions

Speakers:

• Melvin Greer - Senior Research Engineer, Principal, Lockheed Martin, Advanced Technologies Office
• Maureen Fleming - Program Director, IDC Business Process Automation and Deployment Service

In a July 2007 report titled “BPMS Revenue to Reach $6.3 Billion By 2011,” Forrester Research predicts that the Business Process Market will grow to $3.4 billion in 2009.

HandySoft Global Corporation invites you to learn how your peers in Government use Business Process Management and Tasking solutions to command greater control and visibility into daily operations, resulting in big savings and simplified collaboration.

Visible projects leveraging BPM in the Federal Government include:

• Air Force Medical Services – SG/TASK for policy development and action tracking
• HHS – EWITS for Human Capital Management
• NRC – EDATS for action tracking
• FBI Labs – iNNOVARI for evidence handling
• USPTO – The Madrid International Monitor Program for trademark processing
• Department of Labor – eGrants for grant automation

During this hour, featured guest Connie Moore, Forrester Research’s Vice President, will discuss how organizations use BPM to align people, process and information to continually improve productivity and visibility. Moore will relate how BPM is both a methodology and toolset to streamlining work, both structured work (e.g., procurement) and dynamic tasks (e.g., Taskers, data calls, budget requests).

Lt. Colonel J.D. Whitlock will also speak about how the Air Force Medical Service uses SG/TASK to streamline policy development and action tracking. He will share past frustrations with e-mail-based tasking chaos, and how SG/TASK today provides greater visibility into and control over their dynamic work environment.

Why watch:

• Gain insight from Forrester Vice President of Research Connie Moore as she describes a vision for how BPM can drive greater productivity across the entire organization.
• Discover how BPM can provide executives and action officers with complete visibility into and control over both very structured as well as completely ad-hoc workflows.
• Learn how to convert the noise of today’s dynamic environment – e-mail and content overload – into an organized, highly productivity workplace.

In 2003 the National Defense Industry Association (NDIA) issued an eye-opening report on the top systems and software engineering issues facing the DOD and defense industry. In 2006 a workshop was convened to re-examine those issues. Participants in the workshop included organizations such as Boeing IDS, Harris, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Orbital Sciences Corp, Raytheon SAS, Marine Corp Systems Command, USAF Center for Systems Engineering, among others.

Join Bob Rassa, founder and Chairman of the NDIA Systems Engineering Division for a review of the findings in the report, including the top systems and software engineering issues, the substantial progress noted between 2003 and 2006, and the NDIA's recommendations for improvements that could have substantial positive impact upon the planning, acquisition, and execution of DoD programs.

This session will be of interest to software engineering leaders in the defense industry, as well as software program managers from other government sectors that are looking to assess and improve their software engineering practices.

Agencies face numerous mandated deadlines over the coming months, in the move to Networx, adopting IPv6 and in addressing the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB)’s Trusted Internet Connection (TIC) initiative, among others. Networx Transition, IPv6 adoption and planning for TIC have something in common; they are major transition initiatives which require complete visibility into network connectivity and behavior, so that the demands of change can be balanced with security, availability and policy compliance imperatives.

The question then becomes: How do you plan for and accomplished all that is being asked of your agency within a reasonable timeframe without running over budget or overlooking any of the crucial network connections that must be accounted for? It can be nearly impossible to manually to gain an idea of which assets need to be monitored and managed. Meeting these requirements requires that you find a single, comprehensive solution that enables you to gain a complete understanding of your network environment in order to close knowledge and security gaps.

In this webcast, you will learn about key transition success factors and best practices for scoping requirements and anticipating risk. You will discover how to:

• Assess your organizations’ current infrastructures and capabilities
• Plan, well in advance of the OMB deadlines, a roadmap that accurately reflects the current picture of your infrastructure, focusing on gaps between policy and defenses
• Accurately estimate needed infrastructure changes, including device upgrades and reduction of Internet connections
• Limit unwanted connectivity or other security risks during the changeover and after the transition
• And more

Federal agencies, the Department of Defense, and the intelligence community are awash in documents. Often times, these documents contain a plethora of data that loses value without proper context. The result: important information is not readily available because of technical obstacles that agencies can — and should — quickly remedy.

Join Chris Biow, Mark Logic Chief Technologist, in this webcast:

• We will review three techniques for enhancing and extracting meaning from content—from classic metadata to extracting words and snippets of data.
• You will learn the critical role Information Access and Delivery Solutions play in locating and preserving the context of the content from which they came. Without origin, these annotations and low-level metadata lose much of their meaning.
• We will demonstrate how you can produce agile systems with the Mark Logic XML Content Platform that enables your users to find, visualize, display, and interact with content at all levels of granularity.

As the June 2008 deadline quickly approaches, many agencies have made significant progress in transitioning to IPv6, and others are working towards meeting the U.S. Office of Management and Budget’s mandate. Even with such success, there continues to be much more that agencies can learn about to help provide a smoother transition from IPv4 to IPv6 for their specific agency needs.

• What are the significant benefits of IPv6 to enable the Next Generation Internet?
• What are the fundamental technology differences between IPv4 and IPv6 and why should agencies be concerned?
• What are the key recommendations for creating an effective transition plan?

During this informative session, you will learn:

• The security capabilities and challenges with IPv6
• How to define IPv6 capable to meet your specific agency’s requirements and remain interoperable
• The latest information and guidance to help with transition planning
• The requirements and policies set aside to meet the OMB mandate
• And much more...

Our panel of experts include:

• Erica Johnson – Director, University of New Hampshire, InterOperability Lab
• Doug Junkins – Vice President, IP Engineering, NTT America
• David Kriegman – President, Command Federal
• Tim LeMaster – Director of Engineering Services, Juniper Networks

For more on IPv6, visit: www.juniperIPv6.net

Today, sharing, distributing and storing electronic information is easier than ever. Healthcare providers are using technology like email, EMR, and Web communications as the primary systems for collaboration between internal and external users. The shift to electronic forms of communication increases the risk of losing confidential data such as patient medical histories, diagnostic results, and network physician data. Further, the explosive growth of our structured and unstructured information stores complicates the needs of Protected Health Information (PHI) security in an age where total data volumes under management are staggering.

In order to prevent data loss, healthcare providers need to employ an end-to-end system for protection against the accidental or malicious loss of sensitive and confidential information. In addition, organizations should maintain a comprehensive archive for conducting data loss analysis or audits to ensure that the appropriate controls are in place.

Join Symantec to learn how its Data Loss Prevention solution can help you:

• Secure patients’ private medical histories
• Prove compliance with HIPAA, PCI, and state data privacy regulations
• Secure communications with doctors, pharmacies and insurance companies
• Maintain high incident detection accuracy across multiple hospitals and offices

Did you know that combining virtual infrastructure with storage and data protection solutions can not only optimize datacenter and desktop utilization and performance, but also provide a critical support system for disaster recovery?

Together, VMware’s award-winning VI3 Virtual Infrastructure and EMC’s virtual storage and data protection provides a resilient, flexible and cost-effective architecture that provides high availability – in disaster recovery or day-to-day.

Please join Vmware and EMC for a webinar, where you will learn how to:

• Design and deploy a disaster recovery solution that overcomes the limitations of physical infrastructure
• Increase infrastructure resource availability—move and migrate data and resources with zero downtime
• Build flexibility and resilience into base architecture—take advantage of these attributes every day, not just in a disaster These solutions can also provide support for an overall program to comply with the guidelines of HSPD-20.

Fortify Software invites you to learn directly from US Air Force Colonel Kevin Foley on how military and civilian agencies can build strong defenses in application security against growing cyber attacks.

Currently, the Air Force is the only branch establishing a Cyber Command to prepare for fighting wars in cyberspace. A key part of this initiative is to secure custom-built applications that handle highly sensitive capabilities, such as logistics and personal information. In this one hour webinar, Colonel Foley, Director Operations 754 ELSG/D and Head of the Air Force's Application Security Center of Excellence with the US Air Force, will help you learn:

• How hackers are targeting custom-built applications for sensitive intellectual property and data
• Strategies you can use that have been tested and used by the Air Force to diminish the cyber threat
• Specific products and technologies agencies can deploy to bolster software security

Speaker: Colonel Kevin A. Foley, Director of Operations, Headquarters 754th Electronic Systems Group (HQ 754 ELSG), Maxwell AFB-Gunter Annex, Montgomery, Alabama

Getting more from your existing bandwidth is not a trivial task, and more agencies are looking to WAN optimization technologies as a way to get a five- to 20-fold improvement in network performance without leasing more bandwidth. The WAN optimization space, which started as a tactical bandage to fix network congestion problems, is becoming a strategic enterprise service.

The knee-jerk approach to speeding up application performance over the network is to add bandwidth or purchase new servers and distribute them across the enterprise to host applications and data that would be closer to users. There are a number of problems with this approach. Distributing applications on servers goes against the current trend in government. However, even in the best of situations, centralizing applications can have a performance impact on large networks.

Watch this webinar to learn more about the situation the Air National Guard (ANG) was facing with its network, which connects more than 200 locations in 54 states and territories. Instead of increasing bandwidth, the proper solution turned out to be the Blue Coat ProxySG. Enforcement and acceleration go hand in hand because of the network overhead in policy enforcement.

Asset data is more valuable when you know its’ location. Maximo Spatial with ArcGIS enables asset managers to view their data in a spatial context. They can easily and dynamically visualize the spatial relationships among managed assets and the roads, buildings, pipelines, and other mapped features around them. This solution empowers levels of awareness and insight that dry numbers alone cannot provide.

What you will learn from this webcast:

• Extend your investment in ESRI with innovative technology that puts the power of GIS in your asset management solution.
• Learn the value of place and proximity in a spatially-enabled enterprise application.
• Make better decisions to improve the performance and mission-readiness of your agency’s assets.