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Kundra To Moderate AFCEA Budget Preview Breakfast

Ellen Scott — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:48:57 +0000

Federal CIO Vivek Kundra will moderate the discussion on 2011 Budget Preview at the AFCEA Bethesda Budget Preview Breakfast. It will be Friday morning, February 26th from 6:30-9:30 AM at the Ritz-Carlton in Tyson’s Corner.

On February 1, 2010, President Barack Obama requested $79.4 billion in spending on information technology projects for fiscal 2011. Please join AFCEA Bethesda on February 26th for a panel of federal Chief Information Officers to discuss the 2011 IT budget priorities, including:

-How will next year’s budget reflect the president’s ongoing agenda in areas like healthcare, education, energy and the environment?

-What will the continuing push towards transparency, reusability of data and cloud computing bring in terms of IT budget priorities?

-What new technology applications should agencies invest in to enable intra-agency and interagency collaboration and create a coordinated process for identifying and implementing social media tools in open government?

-How might the winding down of the war in Iraq and the surge in Afghanistan be reflected in IT budget priorities?

Speakers include:

-Roger W. Baker  Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Information and Technology & Chief Information Officer Department of Veterans Affair

-Vance Hitch  Chief Information Officer Department of Justice

-Dave Wennergren  Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Information Management, Integration and Technology and Deputy Chief Information Officer Department of Defense

For more information on the February 26 breakfast, please contact Beth Kelley, Registrar at registrar@bethesda-afcea.org

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Cloud Computing Summit Coming to DC in May

John Adams — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:51:25 +0000

On May 3-4, 2010, 1105 Government Information Group will host the Cloud Computing Conference and Exhibition for Government at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Washington, DC.

The program will focus on how government using cloud computing in 2010 and the drivers moving agencies to cloud computing, best practices from government agencies that have adopted cloud computing and which applications organizations are using. Also, how organizations are building private clouds vs. using public clouds and how virtualization and cloud computing overlap and the limitations of each.

Admission to the conference costs $295. To register go to www.GovCloudConference.com.

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AFCEA Bethesda Chapter Breakfast January 21st

Ellen Scott — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:43:40 +0000

On Thursday, January 21^st, the AFCEA Bethesda is holding a chapter breakfast series on federal web 2.0. The event will focus on enterprise adoption and their 2010 outlook.

Guest speakers include Andy Blumenthal, CTO of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, Robert Carey, CIO of the Department of the U.S navy, Gary Galloway, Deputy Director of the Information Office, IRM, at the Department of State, and Bev Godwin, the Director of USA.gov and Web Best Practice at GSA.

The breakfast series will be held from 6:30 AM – 9:30 AM at the Bethesda North Marriott Conference Center in North Bethesda, Maryland. For more information on the breakfast, contact Beth Kelley at registrar@bethesda-afcea.org or visit: http://guest.cvent.com/EVENTS/Info/Summary.aspx?e=5730aa54-aaf0-492e-a545-1b1594096de7

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Health IT Summit for Government Leaders

Ellen Scott — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:32:09 +0000

On February 3^rd and 4^th, 2010 there is a Health IT Summit for Government Leaders. It will be held at the Wardman Park Hotel in Washington D.C. You can also access the summit from your own office or home live through the Internet. Some keynote speakers include Dr. David Blumenthal, the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Aneesh Chopra, Federal CTO, and Dr. Carolyn Clancy, the Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

If you register by Friday, January 8^th, you will receive an Early Bird discount and save $300. Visit http://www.governmenthealthitsummit.com/ for more information or registration.

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GSA Modifies Federal Privately Owned Vehicle Reimbursement Rates

Ellen Scott — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:47:20 +0000

The General Services Administration recently announced that it updated the federal privately owned vehicle reimbursement rates. These new rates went into effect on January 1^st, 2010.

The new rates are as follows:

Airplane – $1.29 per mile

Automobile if no government owned available – $0.50 per mile

Automobile if government owned available – $0.285 per mile

Automobile if committed to use government owned vehicle – $0.125 per mile

Motorcycle – $0.47 per mile

These new rates were developed with the collaboration of GSA, The Department of Defense, The Department of Transportation, as well as the government employee’s union representatives. They were also developed following careful analysis of the cost of operating each of the different modes of transportation.

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“Pay Czar” Feinberg Speaking Tomorrow at GMU

Ellen Scott — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:49:45 +0000

Tomorrow, December 17^th, 2009 from 1:00-2:00 p.m. Kenneth Feinberg, the Special Master for Executive Compensation from the Department of Treasury will be speaking at George Mason University. It will be held in Research 1, Room 163 on the George Mason University campus. Feinberg will be talking about his decisions regarding executive compensation and his speech is titled “Executive Compensation: Promises and Pitfalls.” Feinberg is currently the special master of the Troubled Asset Relief Program and he is in charge of overseeing the compensation of top-level executives at companies that have had federal bailout assistance. In the past he was the special master of the U.S. government’s 9-11 Victim Compensation Fund.

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Informative eSeminar Today: Privacy Issues with Open Government Directive

Ellen Scott — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:00:58 +0000

Today at 11:00 am there is an eSeminar hosted by Federal Computer Week and James McCartney, identity management and privacy consultant for Deloitte Consulting. This informative eSeminar with be focused on the privacy issues associated with the open government initiatives. With these new initiatives, privacy has become more of a concern. McCartney plans on addressing the following issues: how to guard against corporate misuse of information, the nexus of privacy, security and convenience, management of digital identities, and the growing need for a consistent, government wide privacy policy.

For more information about the seminar, visit: http://www.adobe.com/opengov/

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DHS Opens Cyber Job Fair

Ellen Scott — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:26:27 +0000

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security launched a cyber job fair on December 11^th, 2009. This virtual job fair was opened in order to recruit more cybersecurity experts. And what better place to find them then online? This launch also is consistent with the Department of Homeland Security’s plans to hire up to 1,000 new cybersecurity experts and professionals over the next three years. According to NextGov, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano, stated, “Effective cybersecurity is a shared responsibility between individuals, communities, government and the private sector to protect our cyber networks from terrorism and intrusion. The virtual job fair will help us recruit top cyber analysts, developers and engineers to serve their country by leading the nation’s defenses against cyber threats.”

The cyber job fair is looking for experience in the following areas to name a few: strategic analysis, cyber risk, incident response, intelligence analysis, and malware/vulnerability analysis. Moreover, the department is focusing on applicants with experience. For more information about the job fair, visit: http://www.dhs.gov/xabout/careers/cyberjobfair/

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Government Financial Management Conference

Michael Cheek — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:33:11 +0000

Today the International Consortium on Governmental Financial Management made known that they will be hosting the annual conference from December 2^nd through December 4^th in Washington D.C. The conference will include workshops, case studies, and interactive presentations. Speakers, who are senior level government financial managers, will be present and representing more than 30 different countries.

The theme of the conference will be “Performance. Results. Outcomes. Understanding Impact in Managing Public Finance.” The conference, which will be limited to 130 people, will be held at the Inter-American Development Bank Enrique Iglesias Conference Center located at 1330 New York Avenue in D.C. For further information about the conference you can visit www.icgfm.org.

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