Fed Expo National Capitol Region Technology Day

December 01, 2022

Capitol Holiday Inn, Capitol Ballroom
Washington, DC
Event Manager:Bob Jeffers bj1@fbcinc.com

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FBC is excited to announce the FedExpo event is back in-person! This event is held at the Capitol Holiday Inn connected to the FEMA HQ building, which provides easy access for government attendees, and is across the street from several major agencies. The event location is within a complex that includes the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Department of State. 

Agencies that are located within a 2-block radius, including the USDA Graduate School, Voice of America, The Department of Education, The Smithsonian and Health and Human Services, receive promotional materials.

More than 5,000 invitations go out to personnel within each agency. Previous attendees include CIOs, Program Managers, Line Personnel and Cybersecurity professionals.

Federal Emergency Management Agency HQ (FEMA HQ): 

https://www.fema.gov/about-agency 

FEMA's mission is to support our citizens and first responders to ensure as a nation we work together to build, sustain and improve our capability to prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from and mitigate all hazards.

United States Agency for International Development (USAID):

http://www.usaid.gov/who-we-are

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is the principal U.S. agency to extend assistance to countries recovering from disaster, trying to escape poverty and engaging in democratic reforms.

Department of Education HQ:

http://www2.ed.gov/about/landing.jhtml 

The mission of the Department of Education is to promote student achievement and preparation for global competitiveness by fostering education excellence and ensuring equal access.

Multi Agency Day at L'Enfant Plaza

December 06, 2022

Club Room - Promenade Level
Washington, DC
Event Manager:Bob Jeffers LindsayN@fbcdb.com

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FBC is excited to announce the Multi-Agency Technology and Vendor Expo at L'Enfant Plaza is back in-person! Hundreds of employees from FAA, USPS, NTSB, HUD, and the Department of Energy will all be in attendance. This is a multi-agency event and, while each agency has a different mission, all are related by their civilian agency status.  

Ideally located between the National Mall and the Southwest Waterfront, L’Enfant Plaza is located within five blocks of 19 major federal agencies, making it effortless to do business in Washington. This event located within the L’Enfant Metro Stop Mall, and is easily accessible to the agencies that receive promotions for the expo. This new space is part of the community gathering place for agencies housed at L'Enfant Plaza, and provides a unique environment and atmosphere for both attendees and exhibitors. 

Why should your company attend? Agencies are looking for capability providers who can help them with their IT and technology needs. 

The "Club Room" is just off of the main hallway within the mall. Free lunch tickets will be provided for the first 100 attendees that participate.  

This event will be promoted to the FAA, NTSB, HUD, Department of Energy, USPS, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, DHS and others. Potential attendees include CIOs, CISOs, Program Managers, and Procurement Personnel.

CMS Industry Day

December 14, 2022

Virtual
Baltimore, MD
Event Manager:Alysia Coleman alysia.coleman@fbcinc.com

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The CMS Industry Day conference will be hosted by OAGM virtually and open to roughly 4,000 attendees. The one-day conference will take place on Wednesday, December 14, 2022. The format will include virtual briefings from various CMS components, executive leaders, and industry leaders.

Last year's CMS Industry Day had 1,839 registered attendees and 24 unique session presentations with an average of 345 attendees per session.

DISA/Joint Service Provider (JSP) Cybersecurity Forum

January 19, 2023

DoD Mark Center
Alexandria, VA
Event Manager:Bob Jeffers bj1@fbcinc.com

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Calling all technology providers!

DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency) and JSP (Joint Service Provider) are seeking "trusted partnerships" to better manage all the IT and cybersecurity services inside the Department of Defense.

At DISA/JSP's 2022 Cybersecurity Awareness Forum, attendees will examine the agencies' cybersecurity readiness, learn better security practices, complete trainings and look for technologies that can connect and protect warfighters in cyberspace. Can you help DISA/JSP:

• Modernize the technical infrastructure that supports their 38,000 customers in the National Capital Region?
• Advance their full range of IT equipment, services, solutions and customer support for the Office of the Secretary of Defense?
• Standardize their servers?
• Migrate the Pentagon's networks to the joint regional security stacks?

Then, this is an unequaled opportunity to meet with the top talent at DISA and JSP, who are the gate keepers to defensive IT choices and spending.

Help DISA/JSP with their vision to enable every mission: Sign up today.

About DISA

DISA provides IT and secure communications services across the DOD and military service branches. It is in charge of the funding and personnel that offer most of the IT services for the Pentagon and other DOD offices inside the National Capital Region, and has superior mission- and budget-authority.

About JSP

Established in 2015, JSP is a subcomponent of DISA that reduces redundancies and unifies/improves the way that IT capabilities are delivered around the Pentagon. It is the go-to IT service provider for the defense community inside and around the Capital Beltway. Their holistic approach to IT management delivers dependable IT services, enhances network security and reduces overall IT costs. JSP’s support ultimately ensures that efforts and resources are appropriately allocated toward the Department’s mission success.

NIH Tech Day

January 24, 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.’

IRS Virtual Tech Expo

February 09, 2023

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

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Audience:
The IRS New Carrollton Federal Building houses the IT functions for IRS including the Applications Development, Enterprise Operations, Enterprise Services and Management Associate CIO groups. As of 2015, the procurement functions from the IRS Oxon Hill Constellation Centre complex have moved into the New Carrollton Federal Building as well.

IRS Background Information:
The IRS employs more than 92,000 people in its Washington, D.C., headquarters and more than 650 offices in all 50 States, U.S. territories, and some U.S. embassies and consulates and relies extensively on computerized systems to support its financial and mission-related operations. As such, it must ensure that its computer systems are effectively secured to protect sensitive financial and taxpayer data. The IRS needs to ensure that it leverages viable technology advances as it modernizes its major systems and improves its overall operational environment. 

IRS Strategies:

• Ensure a common, robust technology and data architecture exists to improve core tax administration, support cost-effective operations and protect IRS data, systems and networks from security breaches.
• Develop the authentication capabilities and technology required to expand secure, digital services to taxpayers.
• Enable electronic workflow that reduces or eliminates manual processing.
• Further develop a flexible and agile technology environment that enables IT to better meet business needs.
• Provide our workforce with reliable, advanced technology that enhances performance and enables flexibility.

IRS Strategic Plan