GovExec.com The Week Ahead - September 6 - 10, 2004
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September 6 - 10, 2004
Upcoming Events
* On the Hill
* Other Events
* Conferences
* The Week in Review
* Quote of the Week
* In the Spotlight
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Executive Leadership in a Changing Environment,
September 12-17, 2004. This hallmark Brookings course will help you reflect on your
career and role in the government. The course focuses on approaches to running
governmental programs with 21st century competencies. Through expert seminars, group
discussions, and site visits, this inspiring - and fun - week will revitalize your
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On the Hill:
Tuesday, September 7
House Judiciary Committee
U.S. Olympic Committee Reform
Full committee hearing on legislation to reform the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC).
Location: 2141 Rayburn House Office Building.
Contact: 202-225-3951 [ { Link: http://www.house.gov/judiciary }
http://www.house.gov/judiciary]
Wednesday, September 8
Senate Governmental Affairs Committee
Intelligence Reform
Full committee hearing "Building an Agile Intelligence Community to Fight Terrorism
and Emerging Threats."
Witnesses: FBI Director Robert Mueller III and Acting CIA Director John McLaughlin
Location: 342 Dirksen Senate Office Building. 9:30 a.m.
Contact: 202-224-4751 [ { Link: http://www.senate.gov/~gov_affairs }
http://www.senate.gov/~gov_affairs]
Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee
Bioshield II
Full committee hearing on Project Bioshield II.
Location: 430 Dirksen Senate Office Building. 10 a.m.
Contact: 202-224-5375 [ { Link: http://labor.senate.gov }
http://labor.senate.gov]
House Armed Services Committee
Iraq/Afghanistan Military Performance
Full committee hearing on the performance of the U.S. military service members in Iraq
and Afghanistan.
Location: 2118 Rayburn House Office Building. 10 a.m.
Contact: 202-225-4151 recorded schedule 202-225-2675 [ { Link:
http://www.house.gov/hasc }
http://www.house.gov/hasc]
House Government Reform Committee
First Responder Communications
Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations and the Census
Subcommittee hearing on the Project SAFECOM initiative.
Location: 2154 Rayburn House Office Building. 2 p.m.
Contact: 202-225-5074 [ { Link: http://www.house.gov/reform }
http://www.house.gov/reform]
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Other Events:
Tuesday, September 7
Homeland Security
National Press Club Newsmaker Luncheon Program
Program with the Homeland Security secretary.
Participants: Secretary Tom Ridge
Location: National Press Club, 14th and F Sts., NW, Ballroom, Washington, D.C.. 12:30
p.m.
Contact: 202-662-7500
Politics
National Press Club Newsmaker Program
Program on the presidential debates.
Participants: George Farah, Open Debates and author, "No Debate: How the Republican
and Democratic Candidates Secretly Control the Debate Commission."
Location: National Press Club, Zenger Room, 14th and F Sts., NW, Washington, D.C.. 10
a.m.
Contact: 202-662-7593
Wednesday, September 8
Veterans Business Affairs
Small Business Administration (SBA) (F.R. Page 52536)
Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Veterans Business Affairs, September 8-9.
Location: Small Business Administration Headquarters, 409 3rd St., SW, Washington,
D.C.. 10 a.m.
Contact: Cheryl Clark, 202-205-6773
Defense
IDEEA, Inc.
Conference, "ComDef 2004: Transformation and Defense Cooperation at the Crossroads."
Events begin at 8 a.m. Highlights: 8:15 a.m. - Douglas Feith, undersecretary of
Defense for policy, "Transformation and International Cooperation - Defining the
Issues" 4:45 p.m. - Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa., and David O'Brien, David O'Brien and
Associates, "Political Realities of Defense Cooperation - Technology Sharing"
Location: National Press Club, 14th and F St., NW, Washington, D.C..
Contact: 703-760-0762; [ { Link: http://www.ideea.com/comdef04/program.htm }
http://www.ideea.com/comdef04/program.htm]
Homeland Security
Woodrow Wilson Center (WWC)
Book launch of "Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe."
Participants: Graham Allison, author, Harvard University
Location: WWC, One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, Ronald Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania
Ave., NW, Washington, D.C.. 4 p.m.
Contact: 202-691-4140; [ { Link: http://wwics.si.edu }
http://wwics.si.edu]
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Executive Leadership in a Changing Environment
September 12-17, 2004. This hallmark Brookings course will help you reflect on your
career and role in the government. The course focuses on approaches to running
governmental programs with 21st century competencies. Through expert seminars, group
discussions, and site visits, this inspiring - and fun - week will revitalize your
perspective and renew your energy for your continued contributions to public service.
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Upcoming Conferences:
Date: Sep 27 - 28, 2004
Location: Washington, D.C.
Event Name: Knowledge Management Boot Camp - An Effective KM Environment: Making It
Happen
Event Sponsor: Digital Government Institute
Event Description: A well-executed, vibrant knowledge management environment is
increasingly vital to the ability of agencies to manage their infrastructures and
execute their missions. A team of experts led by Dr. Ramon Barquin (co-founder of The
Data Warehousing Institute and Chair of the E-Gov Knowledge Management Conferences)
will teach you how.
Learn how to design, develop, and operate an integrated Federal KM environment of
tools, processes, and people, in order to reap the benefits of KM while avoiding the
pitfalls. A well-crafted scenario will be utilized to discuss key KM methods, and to
demonstrate commercial tools performing critical KM functions.
Contact Information: Christina Nelson { [EMAIL PROTECTED] } 301-320-4397
Web site: { http://www.digitalgovernment.com }
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Date: Sep 27 - 29, 2004
Location: Washington, D.C.
Event Name: The Next 5 Years Conference
Event Sponsor: Technology Training Corp.
Event Description: Our outstanding panel of senior experts will provide you with the
best possible "big picture" forecast, while also outlining the emerging best
opportunities in aerospace and defense RDT&E.
Contact Information: Ken Hood { [EMAIL PROTECTED] } 310-563-1223
Web site: { http://www.ttcus.com }
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Date: Sep 27 - 29, 2004
Location: Austin, Texas
Event Name: ConSec '04
Event Sponsor: DIR, ACP, ISSA, ISACA
Event Description: ConSec 04- The Southwest Regional Symposium on Business Continuity,
Information Security, and It Audit will focus on Conducting Business in a Regulatory
Environment.
Recent events have highlighted the importance of preserving an agency or company's
infrastructure.
Contact Information: Deb Swift { [EMAIL PROTECTED] } 877-451-8700
Web site: { http://www.consec.org }
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Date: Sep 27 - 30, 2004
Location: Brookfield, Wis.
Event Name: Essentials of Public Sector Benefits Administration
Event Sponsor: International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans
Event Description: Program Highlights
--Gaining an understanding of the benefit technicalities and legislative issues in
both pension and health plans
--A forum for exchanging practices with peers in a small group setting
--Networking reception with participants and agencies from around the country
--A multitude of new ideas to put into practice
Staff new to benefits, first-line and newly promoted supervisors, lead administrative
staff and those in finance who work with benefits should attend.
Contact Information: International Foundation { [EMAIL PROTECTED] } 888-334-3327
Web site: { http://www.ifebp.org/education/esspshm.asp }
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Date: Sep 27 - 30, 2004
Location: Vienna, Va.
Event Name: Managing Project Quality
Event Sponsor: Management Concepts
Event Description: Before your organization builds or creates a product, service, or
process, ensure that it meets the highest quality standards! This intensive course
focuses on fundamental quality management tenets of leading thinkers such as Deming,
Juran, and Crosby. Learn how quality is related to virtually all areas of a project.
Use proven tools and techniques for planning and implementing quality methods in a
project environment. Discover valuable sampling and assessment techniques to guarantee
project quality management. Gain expertise in quality standards of the Software
Engineering Institute (SEI), International Organization for Standardization (ISO), Six
Sigma, and Baldridge.
Participants receive a copy of the Evans and Lindsay text, The Management and Control
of Quality.
Contact Information: Denise Kulesa { [EMAIL PROTECTED] } 703-270-4134
Web site: { http://www.managementconcepts.com/pm }
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Date: Sep 27 - Oct 1, 2004
Location: Washington, D.C.
Event Name: Continuity Planning Worlshops
Event Sponsor: Institute for Business Continuity Training
Event Description: IBCT is offering two public workshops in Washington, Sept 27-Oct 1,
2004:
1) Designing Effective Continuity Plans
2) Managing Effective Continuity Programs
These workshops provide the practical "how to" develop and maintain a continuity of
operations plan for government, business and non-profit organizations.
Contact Information: Michael Bittle { [EMAIL PROTECTED] } 800-461-3095
Web site: { http://www.IBCT.com }
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Date: Sep 28 - 28, 2004
Location: Dallas, Texas
Event Name: Security Industry Meeting - ASIS Conference
Event Sponsor: The Coalition for Government Procurement
Event Description: The Coalition for Government Procurement presents Pat Loomis, GSA
Center Director of General Products at Fort Worth. This meeting will give Coalition
Security Committee members, GSA General Products Center representatives and special
guests an opportunity to hear the latest on the status of the Schedules Program.
Discussion topics will include:
* Update on Security Schedule
* Anticipated Changes for FY2005
* Impacts of GSA's new "Get It Right" Campaign
* Ways to Improve the Schedule
* Industry Concerns
This event is free of charge, Plase RSVP with Charlie
The meeting will be held in the Dallas Convention Center
Room A-227
3-4:30 PM
Contact Information: Charlie Robinett { [EMAIL PROTECTED] } 202-331-0975
Web site: { http://www.coalgovpro.org }
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Date: Sep 28 - 29, 2004
Location: Washington, D.C.
Event Name: DoD Architectures
Event Sponsor: IDGA
Event Description: Framework, Development & Implementation
Contact Information: Shayla Woods { [EMAIL PROTECTED] } 800-882-8684
Web site: { http://www.idga.org }
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Date: Sep 28 - 29, 2004
Location: Edmonton, Canada
Event Name: PERFORMANCE MEASURES FOR PROVINCIAL & MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENTS
Event Description: Like the rest of your colleagues at all levels of the public
sector, your priority is to move beyond a zero tolerance for waste, fraud and abuse
and help create a government that is better equipped to efficiently, economically and
effectively delivery its services to Canadians. Establishing an evaluation framework
to determine how efficient and effective program and departmental outputs are, is an
integral part of the process of accurately assessing service success or the need for
change. With the movement towards increased horizontal collaboration, the need to
define the right performance indicators and implement the right measures within your
departments is critical to the success of those initiatives
Contact Information: Yasmin Pallan { [EMAIL PROTECTED] } 416 542 1828
Web site: { http://www.iqpc-canada.com/na-1222.02 }
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Date: Sep 28 - 30, 2004
Location: Las Vegas, Nev.
Event Name: Unique Item Identification
Event Sponsor: National Property Management Association (NPMA)
Event Description: This timely 2 1/2 day course is designed to provide you with an
introduction to Unique Item Identification (UID). What is UID? Why is it required by
the Department of Defense? Who will it impact? How will you be able to establish a
team in your own organization to implement the UID requirements? These are just a few
of the questions that will be answered during this dynamic course.
This course will not only benefit property professionals, but also those working with
contracts, configuration management, logistics, materials, procurement, engineering,
finance, quality and manufacturing. Be sure to pass this information on to others in
your organization!
2.5 Continuing Education Units
Tuition: $700 Members and $800 Non-members. To find out more about this course,
contact NPMA at 727-736-3788, or visit our website at www.npma.org.
Contact Information: Felicia Johnson { [EMAIL PROTECTED] } 727-736-3788
Web site: { http://www.npma.org }
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Date: Sep 30 - 30, 2004
Location: Annandale, Va.
Event Name: Basic Market Research
Event Sponsor: Advantage Consulting, Inc.
Event Description: This Workshop examines the wealth of information available in the
marketplace about clients, competitors, opportunities and products. It is organized
around the three primary purposes of market research - Market Awareness, Competitive
Intelligence and Opportunity Identification. The workshop will help attendees assess
the tools available and apply them to convert data into action-oriented information.
It is designed for both business development people who want to operate more
effectively and those charged with developing market information to support the
business development process in their organizations.
Contact Information: Debra Giles { [EMAIL PROTECTED] } 703-642-5153
Web site: { http://www.acibiz.com }
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Date: Sep 30 - Oct 1, 2004
Location: Houston, Texas
Event Name: Performance Measurement: Best Practices to Drive Results
Event Sponsor: American Productivity & Quality Center's Performance Excellence
Conference
Event Description: Comparative measures and metrics that are relevant and trusted are
being sought to provide business leaders with the information needed to make strategic
decisions and improve business processes. APQC's 2004 performance measurement
conference will showcase proven best practices and approaches for developing and
implementing effective performance measurement systems.
Contact Information: Susan Biggs { [EMAIL PROTECTED] } 800-776-9676
Web site: { http://www.apqc.org/peconference2004 }
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Date: Oct 3 - 6, 2004
Location: Atlanta, Ga.
Event Name: AFCOM Data Center World Conference (Fall '04)
Event Sponsor: AFCOM
Event Description: Premier industry conference for data center management
professionals. President of FOX IT to keynote. Event will bring together industry
leaders and vendors to showcase latest products and best practices, and provide
virtual data center tours, as well as unique networking and educational opportunities.
Contact Information: Jill Eckhaus { [EMAIL PROTECTED] } 714-997-7966
Web site: { http://www.afcom.com }
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Date: Oct 4 - 4, 2004
Location: Washington, D.C.
Event Name: Performance-Based Budgeting
Event Sponsor: TheCapitol.Net
Event Description: Performance-Based Budgeting: Making the OMB Scorecard Work for You.
Designed to help you gain a clear, practical overview of performance-based budgeting,
leading budget experts describe performance-based budgeting (PBB), present the
assessment tools that OMB uses to rate agency programs, provide hands-on exercises
covering measurement concepts, show you how to implement a PBB for your organization
and how to achieve "green" scores on the 5 objectives of the President's Management
Agenda, link PBB to GPRA and the Chief Financial Officers' Act, and give examples of
successful implementation. -- TheCapitol.Net is the exclusive provider of
Congressional Quarterly (CQ) Executive Conferences.
Contact Information: Sophia Lo { govexec - at- TheCapitol.Net } 202-678-1600
Web site: { http://www.AboutPBB.com }
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Date: Oct 4 - 4, 2004
Location: Washington, D.C.
Event Name: OMB Circular A-76: Management Overview
Event Sponsor: Graduate School, USDA
Event Description: This seminar for managers and supervisors gives you an
understanding or the FAIR Act Inventory, the distinction between commercial activities
and inherently governmental functions, the roles and responsibilities of the major
players in competitive sourcing, the steps in the A-76 process, and the terms and
concepts used in Circular A-76.
Contact Information: Robert Grossman { [EMAIL PROTECTED] } 202-314-3427
Web site: { http://grad.usda.gov }
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The Week in Review:
Last week's top stories
{ Link: http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0904/090204nj1.htm }
Cabinet changes expected if Bush is reelected (September 2)
{ Link: http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0904/090104b1.htm }
Air marshals under review following inspector general's investigation (September 1)
{ Link: http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0804/083104dp1.htm }
Offshore corporations could have edge in contracts (August 31)
{ Link: http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0800/083004con1.htm }
Unseen multi-agency security force on the job at GOP convention (August 30)
{ Link: http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0804/082704a1.htm }
Administration renews focus on reducing improper payments (August 27)
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Quote of the Week:
"We found an immense reservoir of good will toward government workers, which is
consistent across political parties."
-- Partnership for Public Service President Max Stier, arguing that though the public
may view the government { Link: http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0804/083104a2.htm }
less favorably in an election year, Americans still hold civil servants in high
esteem.
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