2011 FBI CJIS NICS User Conference in Boise, Idaho

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I work at a medium-sized hotel, and we just got an e-mail from our Convention & Visitors Bureau contact about a Government Lead, a RFP (Request for Proposal) for 90 rooms for 4 nights in May 2011 for an FBI Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) "User Conference" involving the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS).

While our hotel doesn't have any meeting space, so we can't accomodate their conference, I am curious about what exactly is going to be discussed. Is it just a meeting of FBI personnel about compliance? I find it odd that they'd pick such an out-of-the-way location as Boise, unless its supposed to be a northwest regional thing for department heads or something. One thing that really got me though was one of the general questions at the end of the RFP: "Is facility staff part of a union?" Now, why in the hell would they want to know that? Idaho is a right-to-work state, so unions are pretty weak here, and I don't know of any area hotels that are unionized, so I wonder why they are even asking. Seems kind of sinister to me.

Maybe I should sneak over to whichever hotel wins the bid and spy on some of their conferences to see what they are up to? Then again, security could be tight...

Do any of you guys have any idea what they could be discussing?