According to the SBA and the U.S. Census Bureau of Surveys of Small Business Owners (February 2016), 2.5 million businesses in the U.S. are majority-owned by veterans. These veteran business owners employ over 5 million employees with payroll close to $200 billion. With so many veteran-owned businesses in existence, why is the government’s goal to give 3% of contracts to veteran-owned businesses (VOSBs)? As a veteran-owned business, do y...

Details of how all of the future Mastermind Sessions will be delivered at this meeting. Please only attend this session if you are extremely serious about getting to contracts for your business. A selection process to be in the Inner Circle will be reviewed and you can begin applying now for review of enrollment. Visit www.govassociation.org/mastermind. Who Should Attend: Active GCA members Gov Accelerator Participants Gov University Students...

The Center for Digital Government recently performed a thorough analysis of state portals to determine the digital maturity of their processes around professional licensing, driver's licensing, Medicaid applications, state disability benefits, and the child welfare system. The goal was to assess how accessible these services are and to what degree they have been digitized. Our panel of analysts and experts are drilling down into these findings...

The Business Beyond the Battlefield Conference provides collaborative, hands-on, interactive learning and networking opportunities to increase awareness of and facilitate access to entrepreneurial development resources that inspire action and adds economic value through the military connected community. Fireside Chats. Keynotes and Best Practice Panel Discussions. Interactive Workshops. Procurement Fair with Contract Match Making. Veterans Fra...

Mail, email, social media, chatbot, phone call - the list goes on and on. The number of channels and data types that agencies need to keep track of, record and respond to is overwhelming. To make the situation even more challenging, customers are demanding more timely and thorough responses. How can agencies keep up? One solution is to use a cloud-based customer service management solution that enables organizational transformation. Join us on...

Are you nearing separation or retirement and looking for an IT, Technical or Intelligence Job? Do you have an active federal security clearance and interested in finding new career opportunities? Meet defense, technical and intelligence focused organizations face to face to build your network and explore job and professional development opportunities. Our technical, intelligence and security clearance focused hiring fair allows service members...

The Government Contractors Association is a professional, public organization designed to facilitate business owners in winning government contracts through education, resources, and relationships. You found a bid opportunity that you think is perfect, but you are overwhelmed with how to start the proposal. What do you do? For this workshop, GCA-President, Myra Cisse, will teach on how to analyze a solicitation for bidding. Learn how to make a...

The MuleSoft Texas Government Forum is a free educational event specifically for business and IT professionals working in the Texas Public Sector. The Forum is for MuleSoft customers, partners, and interested parties!Attendees of the Texas Government Forum will:Learn how organizations are driving legacy modernization and digital transformation initiativesHear directly from a Texas Public Sector organization on how they're delivering and execut...

For over a decade, our comprehensive study has helped federal marketers develop the right strategies to reach federal decision-makers by providing key data about their purchasing and media habits. Since it began, tens of thousands of federal respondents at defense and civilian agencies, inside and outside the Beltway, have participated in our surveys about their use of digital, social, mobile, print and broadcast media, creating a comprehensiv...

SCARY TALES FROM GOVERNMENT CONTRACTORS (And How you Can Overcome the Same Challenges) The government contracting market can be a big TREAT or it can be filled with challenging TRICKS and pitfalls. In this upcoming class, we will be sharing scary stories from government contractors who have been in some challenging situations. Listen to their experiences and learn from their mistakes. Here’s a sneak peek of what you’ll learn: Commo...