Your contracting officer has a power that the President of the United States doesn't have: the legal authority to sign a document binding your company as a contractor to the Federal government! What have you always to know, but been afraid to ask her? Now, you can! Stacey Coolican, most recently Chief of Contract Operations for the Defense Security Service, is our special guest. We'll discuss seven ways to build trust with Contracting Officers...

For our 4th Annual National Capital Region event, we are changing things up! This is an annual event that historically brings in over 300 attendees to include Congressional Staffers, USSOCOM Acquisition Experts, Defense Attachés, and Industry representatives. This year has more sponsorship opportunities and will take place at the Capital Hilton. The follow-on evening reception will be open to anyone that registers, and typically include...

AFCEA Bethesda's Monthly Breakfast series features panel discussions led by senior-executive government representatives. The goals of the event series are to foster better inter-agency communication, share best practices and lessons learned and identify mission-critical IT issues affecting the federal IT community. With speakers drawn largely from federal civilian agencies, the panel format offers a compelling snapshot of multiple agency persp...

NCMA will be hosting its first "Spotlight on Compliance" webinar series. Particpants earn 4.5 CPE/CLP credits for the webinar series and 1.5 CPE/CLP credits for the individual webinars. Save money by purchasing a webinar package of two or more. There is no limit to the number of people who can participate in each webinar. This discounted series allows an entire staff to be trained for one low cost, and with 14-day unlimited access to the webin...

The Service Contract Act (SCA) and the regulations implementing SCA are some of the most challenging requirements for contractors and for contracting agencies involved in federal contracts for services. If you are competing for the award of a service contract, or performing a service contract and administering your responsibilities under SCA, this two-day course is critical to understanding SCA and ensuring fair competition and full compliance...

Who should attend: CFOs, Directors, Managers in functional areas of Contract Administration, Accounting, Finance, Compliance and Consulting. Any organization who are required to submit their incurred costs to the Federal Government What you will learn: Government contractors subject to an Allowable Cost and Payment contract clause must submit an adequate incurred cost proposal together with supporting data for each fiscal year within six month...

Don't miss AFCEA NOVA's Enterprise IT Small Business Forum. We are bringing together some of the finest business leaders from the Intelligence and the US Defense communities. This is your opportunity to hear from several of the US Governments small business directors on their agencies challenges, new organizational changes and upcoming opportunities. Have breakfast with the small business leaders from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), Def...

NCMA will be hosting its first "Spotlight on Compliance" webinar series. Particpants earn 4.5 CPE/CLP credits for the webinar series and 1.5 CPE/CLP credits for the individual webinars. Save money by purchasing a webinar package of two or more. There is no limit to the number of people who can participate in each webinar. This discounted series allows an entire staff to be trained for one low cost, and with 14-day unlimited access to the webin...

The Vision Federal Market Forecast Conference, presented by PSC, returns for the 53rd year as the premier resource for valuable insight into the federal budget. Vision is where leading industry strategists, government leaders and executives come together to discuss the future of the federal government. We think you should be there. Register today to receive the early bird registration price and secure your spot at the only non-profit federal m...

Who should attend: Contract professionals who have commercial or ‘off the shelf’ products and are currently selling or planning to sell to government agencies through GSA MAS or other methods.Should have some knowledge of the Federal Acquisition Regulations. What you will learn: This course provides an extensive analysis of current developments in the acquisition of commercial products and services by the Federal Government. It wil...