Want to do business with the Department of Veterans Affairs. Have questions about current procurement rules, changes or how the VA will create business opportunities for small business under this new administration!” Join the ACT-IAC Small Business Alliance on Wednesday, February 15th at the 20 F Street Conference Center for Straight Talk featuring Thomas Leney. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs OSDBU focuses on growing small busin...

Join the ACT-IAC Small Business Alliance on Tuesday, December 13th, 2016 for Agile in Action: Fail Fast, Recover Quickly. This half day seminar will shine a light on the Government’s shift to Agile services and its impact on both federal agencies and the Small Business community. This event will gather leaders from a broad cross-section of Federal agencies to share lessons learned and best practices for making agencies efficient and cost...

Please join us for our November General Membership Meeting taking place on Wednesday, November 30, 2016 at the Fairview Park Marriott, 3111 Fairview Park Drive, Falls Church VA, 22042. We’re very excited that our featured speaker will be Sonny Bhagowalia, Chief Information Officer, Department of Treasury. Come out to the meeting to hear about what’s currently going on within the agency, the current priorities and initiatives, as we...

Join ACT-IAC Rocky Mountain Chapter on November 16th, 2016 for DevOps for Government, a half day seminar focusing on the importance of DevOps and how it is implemented to bring increased efficiencies throughout different types of organizational environments. The event will consist of keynote presentations from Melissa Tondi, of Disrupt Consulting, Mark Borowski of IBM, and will be followed up by government panelists participating in discussion...

Join the ACT-IAC Small Business Alliance on Wednesday, November 9th for Straight Talk featuring Richard Young. Mr. Young serves as the CIO of the United States Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Services. During this presentation Richard will discuss the mission of USDA FAS, the direction of USDA FAS IT initiatives and the role that small businesses can take in helping the agency achieve it's mission. He will provide pointers to h...

The world, our nation, and our public service are all experiencing exponential changes with technology. This is causing a ripple effect in citizen expectations. The public mandate is clear: deliver results differently and better. Now more than ever, public service needs #ChangeAgents. You can be a #ChangeAgent. #ChangeAgents are: Leaders who “illuminate the way” and manage the friction of stepping outside the status quo Individuals...

Advance the conversation of transition at your organization. Register for the ACT-IAC Presidential Transition webinar, "Transforming Government Using Technology" to get a preview of the upcoming Presidential Transition report. This report include insights and recommendations on seven management topics that are important to the success of agency IT programs and their support to mission programs including innovation, cybersecurity, customer expe...

This year's theme is "Federal Systems Legacy Systems Modernization: Oxymoron or Get a Move On?" Most federal departments and agencies are burdened with a large portfolio of legacy technologies that dampen the pace of innovation needed to transform agile service delivery and improve cybersecurity. The pressure on agencies to successfully modernize their systems is increasing from the Administration, Congress, and the Government Accountability O...

The Presidential Administration Transition process will soon have a significant impact on government leaders, managers and employees, and by extension, the government contractors that support them. Prepare for what lies ahead by attending the “2016 Presidential Transition – Insights and Advice for HR Leaders” Forum on Thursday, October 6, 2016 at the Embassy Suites D.C. in Washington, DC. Gain valuable insights and advice fro...

This full-day summit will bring together more than 400 government and industry leaders from across the entire federal CxO community (acquisition, financial, grants, HR and IT) in the first-ever event addressing common opportunities and challenges in sustaining progress in shared services implementation through the 2016 presidential transition. The summit agenda will feature discussions on: Leading-edge success stories in the global public and...