Are you a federal contracting CFO looking to connect with peers to discuss various issues such as pricing, compliance, audits, and other challenges to accounting in the federal sector? The Howard County Chamber of Commerce CFO Roundtable is just the series for you. With five sessions spanning the calendar year, this interactive program provides participants with executive level networking, quality information sharing, and unparalleled access t...

Connect at the next of our distinctive receptions featuring the top Federal Government contractors in the Central Maryland region. With only four privately held programs taking place each calendar year, participants experience valuable dialogue with men and women who have built, grown, and sold companies. Executive level reception attendees establish and cultivate new and existing relationships while obtaining knowledge and exploring new busin...

B2G will be tougher than ever in FY 2017 so you need to leverage every advantage - and create platforms that give you an advantage. We are offering a workshop December 6, 2016 from 8am until 4pm that will help you define and develop your Subject Matter Expert platform. Developing a subject matter expert platform is critical for success in the government market. This session combines elements of three Government Market Master workshops: LinkedI...

B2G will be tougher than ever in FY 2017 so you need to leverage every advantage - and create platforms that give you an advantage. We are offering a workshop December 6, 2016 from 8am until 4pm that will help you define and develop your Subject Matter Expert platform. Developing a subject matter expert platform is critical for success in the government market. This session combines elements of three Government Market Master workshops: LinkedI...

If a company is growing and profitable as a Government subcontractor, the natural progression is to begin thinking of becoming a Government prime contractor. While the benefits may be financially rewarding, an emerging firm has lots to consider. One needs to understand the regulations, responsibilities, and the increasingly competitive Government contracting marketplace before making the leap from subcontractor to prime contractor. While there...

Participate in a conversation with lawmakers and local business representatives about the issues to be discussed in the next legislative session. We'll also be presenting the Chamber's public policy priorities for 2017.

The October meeting will be at the Howard County Chamber of Commerce and the facilitator will be Rebecca Kehoe, a government contracts attorney with Cohn Reznick specializing in development of teaming agreements, nondisclosure agreements, subcontract cost/price analysis, time and cost negotiations, and administration of Multiple Agency and Government Wide (GWAC) FFP, CPFF, CPIF, CPAF, labor hour, and T&M type contract agreements and small...

Learn from NASA representatives about programs to fund the research, development, and demonstration of innovative technologies. If your company has less than 500 employees or is a non-profit research institute, come learn more about these programs and potential sources of seed funding.

A panel of executives from small and former small businesses will discuss practical strategies in preparing for and thriving in a government contracting environment increasingly focused on the ability to provide cybersecurity-related services, and also assure appropriate security safeguards have been implemented internally. We will cover: Negotiating flowdown obligations under the DoD's new Network Penetration Reporting Rules, which require re...

Representatives from the NSA will discuss: desire for external innovation to integrate into operational spaces how businesses can engage through unclassified projects that focus on small cost, short-term contracts how NSA ensures that small, service-disabled eteran-owned, HUBZone, small disadvantaged and woman-owned small businesses have maximum opportunity to participate in NSA acquisitions how NSA can act as a technology accelerator for new...