NIH Tech Day

March 30, 2023

NIH Campus, Bethesda, MD-Building 10 FAES Terrace
Bethesda, MD
Event Manager:Bob Jeffers bj1@fbcinc.com

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The nation's medical research agency - the National Institutes of Health (NIH) - has a massive campus running cutting edge research and development, supported heavily by advanced technology and innovation. With this comes a unique audience of scientists and personnel with special applications. 

Reach them face-to-face at NIH Tech Day! All personnel on the NIH campus receive FBC's wide-reaching promotions for this exciting event. Now's the time to show them that your product or service is what they've been missing.

NIH Mission and Goals:
NIH’s mission is to seek fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and to apply that knowledge to enhance health, lengthen life and reduce illness and disability.

To carry out this mission, NIH’s goals are: to foster fundamental creative discoveries, innovative research strategies and their applications as a basis for ultimately protecting and improving health; to develop, maintain and renew scientific human and physical resources that will ensure the nation’s capability to prevent disease; to expand the knowledge base in medical science and associated sciences in order to enhance the nation’s economic well-being and ensure a continued high return on the public investment in research; and to exemplify and promote the highest level of scientific integrity, public accountability and social responsibility in the conduct of science.

Organization:
NIH is an operating division of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), responsible for helping the Department realize its strategic goal of advancing scientific knowledge and innovation.

To accomplish this, NIH consists of 27 Institutes and Centers (ICs), along with Program Offices, which collectively are referred to as ICOs. These ICOs have individual strategic plans and specific research agendas, which are aligned with the legislative mandates that are often related to specific diseases or body systems. To support these missions, most of NIH’s ICOs receive a specific appropriation from Congress, and support research and research training through extramural funding awarded to universities, academic health centers and other research institutions. Most also conduct research and research training in their own intramural laboratories, the majority of which are located on the NIH’s main campus in Bethesda, MD.

From the NIH Strategic Plan:
NIH will support a broad, balanced portfolio of basic research across a wide range of scientific disciplines, a portfolio that will be complemented by vigorous support of innovations in technology and data science. By maintaining and strengthening its already impressive foundation of fundamental science, biomedical research will be poised to identify and capitalize upon potential opportunities for revolutionary breakthroughs with the potential for preventing, treating and curing disease.

Technological innovations will also be instrumental for research aimed at making advances in the early detection, diagnosis and prevention of disease. At the forefront of this effort will be the NIH-led PMI cohort. Taking advantage of emerging biomedical tools and technologies, such as availability of electronic health records, DNA sequencing and exposure monitoring, PMI’s longitudinal research cohort of 1 million or more U.S. volunteers will establish a base of scientific knowledge that can be used to develop prevention and screening strategies tailored to individuals at the most opportune times across the course of their lives.

PMI will also take advantage of the latest methods and approaches in data science, including advances in large-scale databases, computational tools and -omics methodologies to characterize individuals. In addition, PMI will offer researchers the ability to test whether mobile technologies are useful in adapting preventive strategies to individuals’ needs and preferences, enhancing delivery of interventions and improving monitoring of compliance and outcomes. PMI will pioneer efforts to merge, integrate and analyze data from a wide variety of sources with implications for prevention, including basic biological data, health status NIH-Wide Strategic Plan 26 information from electronic health records, individual data on environmental exposures, geospatial data on community environmental exposures and so on.’

32nd Annual Government Procurement Conference (GPC)

April 19, 2023

Walter E. Washington Convention Center
Washington, DC
Event Manager:Bob Jeffers bj1@fbcinc.com

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The Federal Government Procurement Conference (GPC) is a national conference fostering business partnerships between the Federal Government, its prime contractors and small, minority, service-disabled veteran-owned, veteran-owned, HUBZone and women-owned businesses. 

GPC is the largest and longest-running conference for small businesses looking to do business with the government and its prime contractors. This unique one-day event attracts:

• A wide variety of government attendees representing many Federal, State and Local agencies
• Participants from all over the United States including: Government (Federal, State and Local), Industry (Prime Contractors and Small Businesses) and Academia 
• Prime Contractors with teaming and mentor-protégé opportunities
• Hundreds of small businesses, minority-owned businesses, women-owned businesses, Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Businesses, 8a businesses and HUBZone businesses
• Participating firms have the benefit of marketing their products and services to procurement representatives and small business specialists from federal agencies.

Sponsorship opportunities are available to increase your exposure! 

Register Here

CMS CISO Cybersecurity Forum

April 20, 2023

Virtual
Virtual, MD
Event Manager:Alysia Coleman

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About The Event:

In support of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the Information Security & Privacy Group (ISPG) is hosting the annual CISO Cyber Security Awareness Forum & Training Forum.

Creating a culture of cybersecurity is critical for all organizations, including CMS. The internet is used to support many of our day-to-day activities and for many purposes. As technology improves, there is evidence that cyber-attacks are occurring more frequently and if they are successful, their impacts can be damaging. Knowing how to identify and prevent common cyber-attacks helps promotes a more secure internet environment for everyone.

Our goal during National Cyber Security Awareness Month is to engage and educate CMS staff on protecting information technology systems and data from cyber-attacks and to promote clear and consistent communications about cybersecurity and privacy protections.

About CMS:

The Department of Health & Human Services (DHHS) Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) works in partnership with the entire health care community to improve quality and efficiency in an evolving health care system and provides leadership in the broader health care marketplace.   CMS covers 100 million people ...through Medicare, Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program, and the Health Insurance Marketplace. To achieve a high quality health care system, they aim for better care at lower costs and improved health.

The Annual CMS Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) 2023 Cybersecurity Training & Awareness Forum is hosted by the Information Security Privacy Group (ISPG) at CMS. 

The Vision for ISPG is to provide leadership to CMS in managing information security and privacy risks appropriate for evolving cyber threats. The Mission is to enable the safe use of sensitive and privacy data while servicing the healthcare needs of the nation.  

Cyber South Carolina/Savannah River Summit

April 25 - 26, 2023

Crowne Plaza North Augusta
North Augusta, SC
Event Manager:Bob Jeffers bj1@fbcinc.com

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Savannah River Cyber Summit

The Savannah River Cyber Summit (SRCS), slated for April 25-26, 2023 in North Augusta, SC will act as a meeting point where researchers from academia, industry, research groups, companies and public authorities working in the field of cybersecurity and related areas can exchange knowledge and experience with the shared goal of strengthening research and building networks in the field.

This will result in an exciting event filled with fascinating keynotes, thought provoking presentations of new research, and networking opportunities with experts and researchers in the field of cybersecurity.

With a focus on supporting USARMY’s CyberCommand across the greater Ft. Gordon Cyber District, the (SRCS) will leverage the talent found in research universities and national laboratories to highlight innovative and leading-edge discoveries.

This event will be one of the most innovative cybersecurity technology events in the US, offering unique educational and collaborative opportunities for industry visionaries and rising leaders. We do this by offering comprehensive, cutting-edge educational sessions presented by leading industry speakers addressing a number of critical security issues and emerging concepts facing our Nation.

Cyber and Technology Day at Fort Gordon

May 11, 2023

Gordon's Catering and Conference Center
Augusta, GA
Event Manager:Bob Jeffers bj1@fbcinc.com

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The Army's 'cyber center of gravity' is at Fort Gordon.

It's the home of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, Cyber Corps, Cyber Protection Brigade, Cyber Center of Excellence and more recently the U.S. Army Cyber Command (ARCYBER). So, if your product or service is cyber-related, Fort Gordon is where you want to be.

The Fort's 2023 Cyber and Technology Day provides an excellent opportunity for IT, cybersecurity and tactical technology-oriented companies to network face-to-face with the Army's key IT, communications, and cybersecurity personnel.

All Fort Gordon staff – including some Navy, Air Force, Marines and multinational cyber forces that operate and train there – are invited. Most of the 100 expected attendees come from the Cyber Protection Brigade and Military Intelligence. Attendance at the last event included a small but influential group. Job titles included:

• ARCYBER Info Technician
• Branch Chief
• Cyber Operations Specialist
• Data Dissemination Service Tech Lead
• Defensive Cyberspace Operations Architect
• IT Specialist
• IT Technician
• Instructors
• Network Systems Operator/Maintainer

With ARCYBER's recent relocation comes massive opportunity. ARCYBER believes they cannot meet their objectives alone. They are dedicated to making industry partnerships to advance their work in cyberspace.

Mission - The U.S. Army Cyber Center of Excellence (CCoE) and Fort Gordon is a large, multi-mission, multi-service military installation providing base services and support across a wide spectrum of training, operational and Service Member sustainment needs. The installation supports Army, Air Force, Navy, Marines, and Department of Defense personnel performing regional and world-wide missions that include communications training and operations, military intelligence, cyber operations, medical care, force integration and mobilization. 

Army Urban Warfare Planner Course

May 17, 2023

JFTB Los Alamitos
Los Alamitos, CA
Event Manager:Dave Johnson

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Ag Data Viz Day 2023

May 19, 2023

Virtual
Virtual, MD
Event Manager:Bob Jeffers bj1@fbcinc.com

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Ag Data Viz Day is back! This virtual, all-day event, hosted by the Data Viz Community of Practice, is designed to inspire and educate USDA team members at all skill levels, in all modes, and at any point in their data journey. This year, topics will cover additional data visualization tools available at USDA: Tableau, PowerBI, and ESRI software as well as those listed below. The agenda will feature sessions for all experience levels, expert panels, and use cases across USDA in the various software platforms.