The biggest federal event of the year opens in less than a week. ACT-IAC hosts the Executive Leadership Conference in Williamsburg, Va., starting Sunday evening. Paul Strasser is senior vice president and general manager at DRC and co-chair of this year’s ELC.

The shutdown is over, but figuring out the impact is just starting. Federally Employed Women is digging into what happened and why.

Today is launch day for the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s cyber framework for critical infrastructure providers. But now the real work begins. NIST must move from its role of bringing people to together to one of persuader so companies will see the benefits of the framework. Federal News Radio’s executive editor Jason Miller is here with details of the framework and what NIST must do next.

Choosing your partners is one of the most important decisions you’ll make. The criteria you use to choose them will shape where your business goes. Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners, is writing about choosing partners in his Week Ahead newsletter.