Join us from July 17-20, 2017, at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside in New Orleans, Louisiana, for Federally Employed Women's (FEW's) 48th National Training Program (NTP). The NTP is open to all employees from military, private and public sector organizations who want to climb the ladder to the next step in their career. All courses are Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Standards Aligned and target entry-level employees through senior decisi...

Seminar Information: Importers: Are you prepared for a Customs Audit? Sign up for our Import Audit Class and protect yourself from business disruption, fines and penalties that can result from regulatory intervention from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Learn how to prepare for a Focused Assessment. Explore strategies for self-auditing your import program. Learn record keeping requirements, how to exercise reasonable care, how to create a...

Make sure your policies and procedures are in compliance with all of the recent changes to Federal employment law. A number of significant changes to Federal employment law have taken place in recent years. These changes affected employers' obligations in areas such as hiring, wages, discrimination, and termination. During this topic, we will: (1) review the significant changes to employment law, legal and administrative changes from 2016; (2)...

Want to avoid getting tripped up on the intricacies of compliance or need to better understand the regulations around the Buy American Act (BAA) and Trade Agreements Act (TAA)? These Acts are the primary “buy national” rules impacting government contracts. BAA and TAA rules and regulations shape the government’s buying strategies, contractor’s supply chains, and, increasingly, the public perceptions of government contra...

The goal for this course is to provide an understanding of cybersecurity leadership focused on people and not just technology and policy. It will give you an overview of frameworks to support your risk management activities. It is highly useful to any organizational executive, or leader seeking an understanding of building cybersecurity cultures and governance The word cybersecurity is thrown around, used and abused to scare people into buying...

Nearly seven years ago, the U.S. government began a mandated march to the cloud to accelerate the pace of innovation and contain costs. What about the cloud is working or not working? Are agencies fully realizing the promised cost savings? How pervasive is cloud adoption? And, what workloads are agencies putting into the cloud? A survey of 150 military, civilian and intelligence agency technology decision makers, conducted by Market Connection...

The use of mobile technologies and the evolution to the Internet of Things (IoT) is reshaping the way government executes on its mission. From smartphones and tablets that let employees work from anywhere at any time to the wide adoption of WiFi at places like the Pentagon. The Department of Homeland Security recently reported that mobile devices could become an avenue to attack back-end computer systems containing the data of millions of Amer...

Seminar Information: Too often importers expect their brokers to do all of the work when it comes to the importing process. Unfortunately the broker is NOT a tax advisor. Any errors they make could result in penalties for you, the importer. Learn the key compliance elements of importing, classification, valuation, country of origin duty payment and record keeping. Learn also how to decipher those cryptic forms your broker supplies to you. Regi...

The Mobility Hack: Engineering the Secure Mobile Workforce Across the federal government, mobility has become a way of life, as the line between office employees and mobile employees is blurring and might soon disappear altogether. Federal employees expect to have access to the information they need no matter where they are what device they are using. Such capabilities are essential to improving the efficiency of the workforce and the quality...

You may have noticed that bid protests are rising rapidly in the federal contracting arena, as are the number of protests being sustained by GAO and the Court of Federal Claims. Both of these trends can have enormously negative consequences for your agency. So how can you avoid bid protests in the first place? Find out why bid protests occur and learn the steps you can take to prevent them in our Seven Steps to Avoid Bid Protests training cour...