Course Description The key to being successful in the Federal marketplace is to find and influence opportunities before the competition. We all know and want to do this, but how? Where and how do you find opportunities? The available commercial services listing opportunity are not the answer, you find out about an opportunity along with everyone else. The data is out there on the internet. This seminar will help you find opportunities before y...

The General Services Administration’s (GSA) Government-wide Acquisition Contracts (GWACs) are becoming increasingly vital to agencies by enabling them to leverage GSA’s buying power, achieve multi-agency objectives, and acquire acquisition and contract management functions at competitive rates. As the number of companies seeking schedule contracts has roughly doubled over the last several years, with over 80 percent being small bus...

Do shrinking budgets, increased competition, and IT governance policies seeking to cut infrastructure costs to fund new and improved mission systems cause you to have a bleak outlook for IT business opportunities in FY13? Industry leader and immixGroup co-founderSteve Charles hopes to change your thinking as he discusses how companies can spot the opportunities driving the federal IT market forward. In a recent article, Mr. Charles reminds us...

CYBERSPACE 2013 Symposium Please join us in beautiful Colorado Springs, February 5-7 2013, for CYBERSPACE 2013. This is our fifteenth symposium year and we are privileged once again to host some of America's most brilliant strategic thinkers and policy makers, as well as world class Industry partners and private organizations. Our dedicated volunteer staff is working hard to ensure you will enjoy our entire 2013 program. This year we will feat...

The National 8(a) Association offers comprehensive understanding of the unique business of federal contracting. Our conferences feature key government officials and representatives, nationally recognized legal and accounting firms, and business to business networking. It's all about education and networking, networking, networking!

Synopsis: Government leaders are under significant pressure to reduce their overall cost of doing business. At the same time, they are expected to meet ambitious stakeholder performance objectives, take on new missions, or even transform their organizations to meet current business demands. Over the past decade, transformation, process improvement and efficiency initiatives within government have fallen short of expectations. This session will...

This November marked the halfway point of the Digital Government Strategy, a full-year plan aimed at delivering higher quality digital services to the public – and many deliverables have already been met. Several second quarter milestone actions in particular provided huge progress to the program, including GSA’s customer engagement initiatives, the Federal CIO Council’s BYOD Toolkit and NIST’s application of standards...

GSA Expo is the signature annual training and marketing event of the General Services Administration. It is the place where industry meets the marketplace to display the incredible array of commercial services and products available through the GSA Schedule program. Do you want to know GSA’s vision for Expo in May 2013? Should you expect changes in attendees, the theme, or overall logistics of the conference? Join us in a dialogue with T...

The AFCEA Bethesda Monthly Breakfast series features panel discussions led by senior-executive government representatives. With speakers drawn largely from federal civilian agencies, breakfast topics span a wide range of timely issues—from health IT to cybersecurity to Gov 2.0—and are discussed in a panel format that offers a compelling snapshot of multiple agency perspectives. The goals of the event are to foster better inter-agen...

Where do you find the business problems the government is trying to solve? The data is out there. Learn how and where to look for opportunites, potential teaming partners, and where not to spend your time and resources Become more efficient at researching and analyzing readily available data Be "smarter" than the competition