Acquisition is a Team Sport The acquisition process has several phases: research, proposals, pricing negotiations, accounting, legal, and ultimately, the integration of two, or more, entities. No one single person can be an expert in all of these segments, so teammates engage when needed and slip out when they've successfully completed their piece. While there is never really a large group of active people working on all of the tasks together...

For the first time in history, four generations make up the workforce. The result is over 50 years difference in historical context, experiences and expectations often resulting in stereotype driven challenges undermining a high-performing team environment. As a leader, you have the responsibility to constantly evolve to better understand and overcome some of the workforce challenges presented by generational differences. This event will provi...

Agencies such as Department of Homeland Security, Health and Human Services, and General Services Administration are among the many that indicate they rely on the Agile approach to IT development. Additionally several agencies have recently urged their procurement offices to operate using Agile principles in addition to buying from known Agile Services vendors. As the pressure continues to mount on Federal agencies to embrace Agile development...

The American Council for Technology and Industry Advisory Council (ACT-IAC) invites you to the Mobile Health Forum on Thursday, April 20th at the Renaissance Washington in Washington, D.C. Mobile Health Apps and Telehealth applications have the potential to transform the standard approach to treating, monitoring, and educating the patient populations. These bi-directional initiatives – via voice, text, data, camera images and or video f...

Join ACT-IAC on Wednesday, March 29, 2017, for our first membership meeting of the year! This is a great meeting to catch up on what’s happening within the ACT-IAC community! The meeting will be taking place at the Sheraton Tysons Hotel, 8661 Leesburg Pike, Vienna, VA 22182. We’re pleased to have a program panel featuring four Chief Information Officers from agencies within the Department of Agriculture. The panel will discuss thei...

The acquisition system within the federal government is going through evolutions focused on better industry and government collaboration especially for its small business partners. Leaders in these major changes include the State Department’s Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (ODSBU) office which champions small businesses through the Department’s acquisition programs. Join the ACT-IAC Small Business Alliance o...

In 2014 an announcement was made with plans to embark upon a new paradigm for purchasing by moving from managing purchases and prices individually across thousands of procurement units, to managing entire categories of common spend and total cost. The intention is to apply the principles of Category Management – used extensive in industry and other countries – to the Federal acquisition process. This is intended to be more than jus...

On January 20th President-elect Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States. For many of us this is the first Presidential Transition that we have experienced and what lies ahead for all of us still remains unclear. Join the ACT-IAC NexUS community on February 16th from 4:00 - 6:30 PM to hear from executives in government and industry as they discuss lessons from past Presidential transitions as well as the status o...

Want to do business with the Department of Veterans Affairs. Have questions about current procurement rules, changes or how the VA will create business opportunities for small business under this new administration!” Join the ACT-IAC Small Business Alliance on Wednesday, February 15th at the 20 F Street Conference Center for Straight Talk featuring Thomas Leney. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs OSDBU focuses on growing small busin...

The world, our nation, and our public service are all experiencing exponential changes with technology. This is causing a ripple effect in citizen expectations. The public mandate is clear: deliver results differently and better. Now more than ever, public service needs #ChangeAgents. You can be a #ChangeAgent. #ChangeAgents are: Leaders who “illuminate the way” and manage the friction of stepping outside the status quo Individuals...