Welcome to Anchorage!

摘要

Welcome to Anchorage! It has been a long challenging journey. In 2006, the NDTA site selection committee selected Anchorage for the 2010 Forum. The recession started in 2007 and continued through 2009. In 2009 the board decided to hold the 2010 Forum in the Washington DC area (National Harbor, MD), and delay the Anchorage Forum until 2012. The expectation was that the economy would be better. I will let you be the judge of the current state of the economy. In the spring of this year, the GSA Inspector General released a report citing excessive costs and waste involving a conference held in Las Vegas, NV. The government reaction was to issue a directive on 11 May 2012, requiring all government agencies to reduce travel by 30% from the 2010 baseline effective through 2016, prohibiting any government agency from spending more than $500,000 on any conference, and Secretariat level approval for any conference exceeding $100,000, plus posting the details of the conference on their website effective January 2013.