Events – GTS Coalition

CBP Week 2020; November 16-20, 2020

Kristina Tanasichuk — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 01:06:28 +0000

Join GTSC for our 9th annual focus on the missions of U.S. Customs and Border Protection! Through COVID, terrorism, transnational crime, cybercrimes, and political and economic instability threaten the homeland. This week will examine CBP’s 12 strategic initiatives designed to harness and apply the power of data, intelligence, and advanced analytics, develop and maintain top-quality IT infrastructure and access, and expand our international and intelligence partnerships to leverage the benefits of interoperability and collaboration to protect the country.

Registration opens November 1 – stay tuned here and in your member newsletter for new speakers and updates.

Sponsorships are available! Contact us to learn more!

SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR GUARDIAN SPONSOR:

Monday, November 16

2:00 PM Setting the Stage for Border Security: Immigration & National Security

Todd Bensman, Author

Tuesday, November 17

11:00 AM Supporting a Secure Border: Operations

Linda Jacksta, Deputy Executive Assistant Commissioner, Operations Support

Bradford Slutsky, Director, Information and Incident Coordination Center

Kathleen Scudder, Executive Director, Planning, Analysis, and Requirements Evaluation Directorate

George Talton, Director (Acting), Planning, Analysis, and Requirements Evaluation Directorate

Dave Fluty, Executive Director, Laboratories and Scientific Services

Ron Ocker, Executive Director, Intelligence Operations, Office of Intelligence

2:00 PM Supporting a Secure Border: Enterprise Services

Benjamine “Carry” Huffman, Executive Assistant Commissioner, Enterprise Services

Wednesday, November 18

11:00 AM Office of the CIO Update

Beth Capello, Deputy Chief Information Officer, Office of the CIO

Thursday, November 19

2:00 PM Procurement Update

Diane Sahakian, Deputy Assistant Commissioner, Office of Acquisition

Earl J. Lewis III, Executive Director, Information Technology, Contracting Division

Julie Koo, Division Director, Information and Technology (IT) Contracting Division

Peter Giambone, Contract Specialist

Timothy O. Evans, Branch Chief for the Border Technologies Contract Branch, Office of Acquisition, Office of Enterprise Services

Ramona Watts-Sutton

Friday, November 20

10:00 AM Air & Marine Operations

Dennis Michelini, Executive Director, Operations, Air and Marine Operations

1:00 PM Technology & The CBP Mission

Tom Mills, Chief Technology Officer, Office of Information and Technology

David Hansen, Executive Director (Acting), Passenger Systems Program Directorate

Robert Costello, Executive Director on detail to Border Enforcement and Management Systems Directorate
Office of Information and Technology

Thursday, December 3

10:30 AM Border Patrol: A View from the Front Lines

Chief Rodney Scott, Chief, U.S. Border Patrol

2:00 PM KEYNOTE: Setting the Stage for Border Security

Mark Morgan, Commissioner

Friday, December 4

11:00 AM Field Operations Update

Diane Sabatino, Deputy Executive Assistant Commissioner, Field Operations

2:00 PM Update from OIT

Sonny Bhagowalia, Acting Assistant Commissioner for Information Technology & CIO

Valerie Isbell, Deputy Commissioner for Information Technology

Office of Information Technology

EM2020: FEMA’s Missions to Prepare, Respond, Recover

Kristina Tanasichuk — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 00:48:34 +0000

EM2020 explores the missions of FEMA, the nation’s preparedness for, response to, and recovery from, any emergency.

October 27 – November 3, 2020

Most sessions begin at 2:00 PM, click here for more details on registration.

SPECIAL THANKS to

The Government Technology & Services Coalition’s EM2020 is a week of interactive webinars to explore the missions of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the practice of emergency management, and the nation’s preparedness for, response to, and recovery from, any emergency. Webinars feature a keynote speaker. and panel discussion for approximately 1.5-2 hours daily. Panels will be announced as they are confirmed – we anticipate 6 sessions with FEMA leadership.

AGENDA

Tuesday, October 27

Technology and the FEMA Mission

OPENING KEYNOTE

2:00 PM Lytwaive Hutchinson, Chief Information Officer

Discussion:

2:30 PM Karen Filipponi, Chief Component Human Capital Officer

Wednesday, October 28

EVENT KEYNOTE

1:30 PM Peter Gaynor, Administrator, FEMA

Preparedness: Expanding our Understanding

2:00 PM Alex Amparo, Assistant Administrator, National Preparedness

Discussion panel:

2:30 PM Linda Mastandrea, Director, Office of Disability Integration and Coordination

3:00 PM Chief Keith Bryant, Administrator, U.S. Fire Administration

3:30 PM David Maurstad, Deputy Associate Administrator, Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration

Thursday, October 29

Resilience for All-Hazards

2:00 PM Bridget Bean, Deputy Administrator (Acting), Resilience

Friday, October 30

FEMA Modification of Response and Recovery efforts in a pandemic environment

2:00 PM Jeffrey Dorko, Assistant Administrator for Logistics, Office of Response and Recovery

2:30 PM Dr. Melissa Forbes, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Recovery, Office of Response and Recovery

Tuesday, November 3

Procurement Update

2:00PM Bobby McCane, Chief Procurement Officer

2:30PM Lester Ingol, Deputy Chief Component Procurement Officer

Read more about our sponsor, Excelicon, here:

GTSC Procurement Update: U.S. Secret Service

Anna Leonovich — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 16:58:16 +0000

GTSC Members ONLY

For the last several years the U.S. Secret Service has consolidated and reconfigured how it manages and oversees technology to meet its five strategic IT goals. Join us to hear from Kevin Nally, CIO, on his strategic plan and vision, in addition to his progress and accomplishments around his goals of bringing the agency the latest innovation, improved service delivery and cybersecurity modernization.

About Kevin Nally:

Brigadier General Kevin Nally was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the Marine Corps in May 1981, after graduating from Eastern Kentucky University with a Bachelor of Science in Agronomy and Natural Resources.

After completing The Basic School and Communications Officer Course, he was assigned to the 1st Marine Amphibious Brigade where he served as a Communications Platoon Commander for the Marine Service Support Group-37 and later as a Communications Platoon Commander for the Brigade Service Support Group. During this tour, BGen Nally attended SCUBA School, Pearl Harbor where he served in an additional duty capacity as a search and rescue diver.

In 1985, he was reassigned to Marine Corps Recruiting Station, Los Angeles, California where he served as an Officer Selection Officer. In 1988, BGen Nally attended Command, Control, Systems Course in Quantico, Virginia. After graduating in 1989, BGen Nally was assigned to the 2nd Tank Battalion, 2nd Marine Division where he served as the Communications Platoon Commander during Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Following this, he was assigned to Communications Company, Headquarters Battalion, 2nd Marine Division as the Executive Officer.

In 1992, BGen Nally was assigned as the Operations Officer, Recruit Training Regiment, Marine Corps Recruit Depot/Eastern Recruiting Region, Parris Island. In 1995, Brigadier General Nally was transferred to the 3rd Marine Division where he served as the S-6, then the S-3, and finally as the Executive Officer for the 4th Marine Regiment. In 1996, he served as the Commanding Officer, Communications Company, Headquarters Battalion, 3rd Marine Division. In 1998, BGen Nally was assigned as the Deputy Director, J6, United States Forces, Japan and completed a Masters in Information Systems Management.

From 2000 to 2002, Brigadier General Nally was the Commanding Officer of Support Battalion, MCRD/ERR, Parris Island. From May of 2002 to July 2003, BGen Nally was the Director, MarineCorps Martial Arts Program. Brigadier General Nally is a 2004 graduate of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces with a concentration in Information . Strategy. Following this assignment, he served from 2004 until 2006 as the Deputy Director for C4, United States Central Command where he deployed twice in support of OIF/OEF. In 2006, Brigadier General Nally was transferred to Camp LeJeune, NC, where he served as the II MEF AC/S G-6 and subsequently as the II MEF Chief of Staff. From 2007 until 2009, he served as the Commanding Officer, Marine Corps Communications-Electronics School in 29 Palms, CA, and as the AC/S, G-6, MCAGCC/MAGTF-TC. He is currently serving as the Chief Information Officer for the US Secret Service.

Mentor Session with AT&T: Partnering with AT&T to Win Government Contracts

Kristina Tanasichuk — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 09:59:10 +0000

REGISTER HERE

RESCHEDULED TO OCTOBER 7, 2020 | 2:00 PM

GTSC small and mid-sized members are invited to learn more about the partnering strategy and vision of GTSC Mentor AT&T.

About this Event

GTSC small and mid-sized members are invited to join us for a mentor session with AT&T. This meeting will discuss AT&T’s federal vision, strategy, targeted areas of growth, and partnership needs. Non-member, small business guests are welcome.

Mentor sessions offer advice and counsel on the direction of the homeland security and law enforcement market, their view of where to focus your business, and the types of needs they see evolving in this market.

A number of senior executives from the federal services team will join us to discuss their portfolio and overall strategy of their successful work at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and other Federal law enforcement work in the Departments of Justice, State, Energy, and the FBI.

Speakers

Barb Perlowski, Assistant Vice President, AT&T

Erik Hand, DHS Senior Principal Architect, AT&T

Matt Thibault, Solutions Architect, AT&T

Bill Polizos, Director, Small Business Program, AT&T

Agenda

• Introduction and AT&T Public Safety Overview

• AT&T Technical Innovations within Public Safety

• Cybersecurity (SOC)

• Small Business Partnerships

Questions and Answers

GTSC ESBG Procurement Update: NITAAC CIO-SP3 Small Business

Kristina Tanasichuk — Mon, 08 Jun 2020 18:42:22 +0000

The Emerging Small Business Group of GTSC hosts Acting Director of NITAAC to discuss opportunities for small business.

About this Event

Every Federal agency with procurement authority is responsible for contributing towards meeting the Federal government-wide small business procurement goals of awarding at least five percent of all federal contracting dollars to small disadvantaged businesses each year. With its $20 billion ceiling, the NITAAC Chief Information Officer-Solutions and Partners 3 (CIO-SP3) Small Business (CIO-SP3 Small Business) GWAC is an ideal option to assist federal agencies in meeting their socioeconomic goals, across all categories.

Join GTSC as Acting NITAAC Director Brian Goodger provides an overview of the CIO-SP3 Small Business GWAC. The session will focus specifically on how federal agencies can leverage the vehicle to meet their 8(a) socio-economic goals, however, all unmet socioeconomic goals can be met through the vehicle.

SPEAKER:

Brian Goodger, Acting Director NITAAC (NIH Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center). Associate Director OLAO (Office of Logistics and Acquisition Operations) in the Office of the Director of the National Institutes of Health.

NEW! GTSC FEDERAL PROCUREMENT UPDATE WEBINARS

Kristina Tanasichuk — Tue, 12 May 2020 00:05:41 +0000

Welcome to the era of COVID-19! So much has changed since the start of the pandemic and GTSC has evolved rapidly to assure you get the communications and information you need to continue on with the mission of securing our homeland. We have reached out to our partners at DHS, Treasury, and the State Department and are confirming webinars daily. Please take note of new webinars in your weekly newsletter and check back here for updates!

BOOKMARK: www.gtscoalition.eventbrite.com to go directly to registration for all GTSC and Homeland Security Today events.

UPCOMING WEBINARS – REGISTER TODAY!

GTSC DAYS – PLANNING CALLS

The evolution of GTSC Days!

GTSC members are invited to provide their input to our planning for this fall. GTSC will still host our “days” spread over one week instead of one day. In the next few weeks, we will host 30 minute meetings for each week so we can hear about your priorities and interests. All GTSC members are invited to share 1) who they want to hear, 2) specific topics of interest, 3) procurements or projects of interest. Specifically, GTSC is looking for your input on the topics and speakers you’d like to hear at the following GTSC Days TENTATIVELY SCHEDULED for:

ICE Days: PLANNING CALL September 3, 9:00 AM – 9:30 AM. Click here to join.

Cyber security career awareness : PLANNING CALL – suggestions on topics and invitation to provide an insight about your cyber career September 3, 9:45 AM – 10:15 AM. Click here to join.

CISA days (truly tentative with Brian Harrell’s departure): PLANNING CALL September 3, 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM. Click here to join.

TSA Days: PLANNING CALL September 3, 11:15 AM – 11:45 AM. Click here to join.

Homeland Security Today Awards: PLANNING CALL September 4,10:00 AM. Click here to join.

U.S. Customs & Border Protection TacCom II, TALMEC , ATAP and RVSS/IFT

Date: TBA

TacCom II, TALMEC (Tactical Air, Land and Marine Enterprise Communications), ATAP (Advanced Trade Analytics Platform) and RVSS/IFT (Remote Video Surveillance System and Industry Fixed Towers)

Speakers:
Julie Koo, Director Information Technology Contracting Division U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Susan Baptist, Division Director of U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Kerri Bishop, Office of Acquisition (OA), Director-Mission Support Contracting Division, U.S. Customs and Border Protection

PLEASE NOTE OUR WEBINAR PROCESS:

As you may have seen, GTSC has developed a webinar and meetings channel. Given security concerns around certain platforms, GTSC has implemented new default security measures and a two-step registration process to assure a safe and fun experience. Once you register on eventbrite, the day before or day-of the webinar or meeting GTSC will verify your participation and you will receive another registration link from GTSC. That is the webinar registration.

Please be sure to register with your official company email. We cannot admit any .gmail, .yahoo, or other random emails into the calls.

Please click on the link and register for the webinar to get in and participate.

You will not have access to the webinar if you do not click and register at the webinar’s site.

If identified as a WEBINAR, we will not be able to see you.

If identified as a MEETING, we can see you if you allow us to.

Zoom does not require you to download anything; you simply click the link and join online.

Thank you for your patience as we evolve to beat the havoc caused by the Coronavirus!!

BOOKMARK: www.gtscoalition.eventbrite.com to go directly to registration for all GTSC and Homeland Security Today events.

Homeland Security Today webinars are NOT included here. To find those, sign up for the weekly webinar update here.

PAST WEBINARS

GTSC U.S. Coast Guard Cyber & IT Missions and Opportunities

AUGUST 27, 2020

Join us for a discussion around cyber and IT missions and opportunities at USCG

SPEAKER:

Rear Admiral David Dermanelian, U.S. Coast Guard

GTSC MEMBERS ONLY WEBINAR WITH DIRECTOR MATTHEW ALBENCE, ICE

AUGUST 19, 2020

Join GTSC for a webinar with the Director of ICE Matthew Albence, to discuss the agency’s day-to-day operations and impacts of COVID on their workforce of more than 20,000 officers, special agents, attorneys, and mission support professionals assigned to more than 400 domestic and international offices.

GTSC ESBG Procurement Update: NITAAC CIO-SP3 Small Business

AUGUST 11, 2020

Procurement update around the NITAAC CIO-SP3 vehicle.

U.S. Customs & Border Protection – ITI and other OIT requirements

JULY 7, 2020

SPEAKERS:

Sanjeev Bhagowalia, Acting Assistant Commissioner, Office of Information & Technology (OIT), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), DHS

Julie Koo, Director Information Technology Contracting Division U.S. Customs and Border Protection

Earl Lewis, Executive Director, Procurement, Deputy Head of Contracting Activity

Special thanks to Sev1Tech for their support of this webinar. Click their logo to learn more about GTSC’s Mid-Tier of the year!

GTSC Procurement Update: U.S. Department of Homeland Security – HQ

June 25, 2020

SPEAKERS:

Soraya Correa, Chief Procurement Office, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

GTSC Procurement Update: Internal Revenue Service

June 9, 2020

Speakers:
Shanna Webbers, Chief Procurement Officer, IRS
Harrison Smith, Deputy Chief Procurement Officer, IRS

Special thanks to Northrop Grumman for their support of this webinar. Click their logo to learn more about GTSC’s Mentor of the year 2018!

GTSC Procurement Update: U.S. State Department

June 9, 2020

SPEAKERS

Michael Dickson, Branch Chief, Information Management Contract Branch, U.S. State Department

Katie Lugo, Contracting Officer, Information Management Contract Branch, U.S. State Department

Grayson Cochran, Contracting Officer, Information Management Contract Branch, U.S. State Department

Anna Urman, Senior Procurement Analyst, U.S. State Department

GTSC Procurement Update U.S. Customs and Border Protection

May 27, 2020

SPEAKERS

Julie Koo, Director Information Technology Contracting Division U.S. Customs and Border Protection

David Hansen, Supervisory Information Technology Specialist, U.S. Customs and Border Protection

Earl Lewis, Executive Director, Procurement, Deputy Head of Contracting Activity

GTSC and Women of Homeland Security – A conversation with Beth Cappello – Acting CIO of DHS

May 19, 2020

Join GTSC, co-hosted by Women in Homeland Security, to hear from Elizabeth Capello on her mission, challenges, and vision as she works to manage the IT and cyber security needs of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security during the COVID crisis — and every day.

GTSC Procurement Update with DHS

May 7, 2020

Join GTSC for a members only webinar on procurement and acquisition activity at the U.S.Department of Homeland Security. GTSC will host a number of industry liaisons from headquarters to discuss procurement activity, touch on DHS’s response to Coronavirus, and answer questions submitted in advance. This webinar is geared toward activity not related to COVID-19, however, if you have questions about that we will certainly entertain them.

GTSC Procurement Update with ICE

April 30, 2020

Join GTSC for a members only webinar on procurement and acquisition activity at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Special thanks to members who responded to GTSC’s survey and asked for specific updates on:

· DHS ICE SEVP Application Design, Development, Test, Deployment, O&M, Eng, and Security

· DHS ICE-Security Assurance Support Services

· Modernize and Automate the Inspection Process at ICE Detention Facilities

· DHS, USCIS, CYBER SECURITY DEFENSE SERVICES (csds) – RFI

GTSC Members Only – Events, New Webinars, Procurement and Acquisition

April 24, 2020

Join us for an update on GTSC’s activities around:

>Procurement

>Events

>COVID-19

Questions and suggestions on what else we can be doing to help you.

GTSC Law Enforcement Information Sharing – Focus on Domestic Violent Extremism

April 23, 2020