Rishi Sood
Research Vice President
Gartner Intelligence

Continuing budget resolutions, divided government, and the on-going war costs are creating a technology holding pattern across the federal government. As growth in the federal government market has flattened out, vendors must actively position themselves in the remaining growth areas over the short term. This presentation will highlight the key issues affecting federal government information technology decisions, examine the new procurement vehicles for next generation agency modernization, outline the changing vendor landscape, and pinpoint key areas of continued technology investments.

In particular, this presentation will:

• Highlight key business issues (cost reduction, program accountability) and major technology rankings
• Identify key growth opportunities related to government healthcare, networking/telecommunications modernization, border security, and business process outsourcing
• Forecast IT spending across the major categories of hardware, software, and services
• Highlight key partnering issues associated with this evolving market

Herb Strauss
Vice President
Gartner

U.S. Defense and Intelligence Agencies are at a strategic inflection point. Transformational investments across a wide swath of application, network, data and storage technologies continue as mission processes and demographic shifts in the workforce create new requirements on people and systems. All this, and a Presidential election too! What will the effect be on government industry technology and service providers? In this presentation Gartner will explore:

1. What are the major IT investment trends in the national security domain?
2. What will be the program and budget drivers FY-08/12?
3. How should government industry firms respond?

John Lovelock
Research Director
Gartner Technology and Service Provider Research

US Healthcare is in the midst of a significant period of expansion, led by executive focus by government agencies and transformed by a new embrace of technology by health care providers. This presentation will focus on the key business drivers and market conditions propelling the government healthcare market as well as highlight key technologies and solution areas that will drive new modernization activities. Moreover, the presentation will provide important frameworks for the vendor community to define and target this major area of government spending.

The presentation will:

• Define the emerging government healthcare market
• Identify key areas of expected technology growth
• Highlight competitive positioning movements among key government and healthcare vendors
• Forecast government healthcare IT spending

Jeff Vining
Research Vice President
Gartner Research

The goal of this pitch is to review from a technology and policy perspective the lessons learned from the Virginia Tech University tragedy and then develop mass notification scenarios for educational intuitions and identify the most appropriate mass notification technologies for each of these scenarios. In addition, this pitch will examine the advantages and disadvantages of each of these technologies ability to handle these various types of crises'

Key Issues:

1. How do dynamics of a crisis affect different notification techniques and technologies?
2. How to identify the best possible procedures and mass notification technologies?
3. How to build a test and implementation plan for identified mass notification technologies?

Bill Vass
President and COO, Sun Microsystems Federal, Inc.

Secure Open Source Solutions for Government

By providing customers with choice and interoperability–offering our software on other hardware technologies, our storage attached to other platforms, our hardware supporting three operating systems across a three-chip strategy, and services to support it all–Sun Microsystems innovates to provide the interoperability, low cost, and power-efficient technology organizations seek today. Sun is the largest contributor of open source code, with over three times that of our nearest competitor. Bill Vass, President & COO of Sun Federal, will share Sun's vision of the data center of the future - based on secure open source solutions and groundbreaking technology for space and power savings.