ChallengeHER is a joint initiative from the U. S. Small Business Administration (SBA), Women Impacting Public Policy (WIPP) and American Express OPEN, the small business division of the financial services company. The Arizona Small Business Association will participate as a local partner. The free Phoenix ChallengeHER event will educate attendees on growth opportunities in government contracting as well as how to participate in the SBA’s...

Enter into enforceable teaming agreements. Minimize your risks. Eliminate or dilute oppressive clauses. This is a practical, understandable guide to the formation and enforcement of teaming agreements in Federal procurements. John will guide you along the way, whether you are a prime or a team partner. Non-Disclosure Agreements will also be discussed.

The government acquisition process is built for more traditional on-premise systems deployment. In essence, Cloud is a nothing more than a way of buying technology – but the technology doesn’t change, it’s still servers, it’s still storage, and it’s still a method for addressing the agency’s business challenges through IT. Whether buying cloud variations such as software-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service a...

Vision Federal Market Forecast Conference The Vision Federal Market Forecast is the only non-profit federal market forecast that addresses the defense, civilian, and federal IT markets. In its 52nd year, the Vision Conference is where industry and government convene to present and discuss the results of the Vision Federal Market Forecast. The Forecast delivers insights from hundreds of government executives, think tank experts, congressional s...

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...

The presenters will first provide a brief overview of the Cost Accounting Standards (CAS), including what the standards are, who CAS apply to, and their importance. Then, the presenters will explain compliance requirements for contractors who have CAS-covered contracts (including disclosure statement requirements) and the process of preparing cost impact calculations. Primary emphasis will be given to the cost impact process, both general dol...

Enhance your Financial Systems and External Reporting with the use of our CFO Control Tower Toolkit View our on-demand webcast and demo, where you will discover how to enhance your financial systems to ensure your agency can immediately, reliably, and accurately meet external compliance reporting and provide insight and analytics to all your internal financial data users. You will see how the CFO Control Tower enables you to quickly and effect...

How much did you spend on networking and conferences last year? Did you count the cost of prep time and follow up, too? Get more business from that investment this year. Transform your results, starting now. Join me and my special guests as we share lessons learned from a huge national event. You'll get power tips and tactics for making your Federal networking more effective than ever.

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...

Our four-hour virtual conference will provide important rules and key concepts for a successful contract negotiation. Learn directly from our highly experienced presenters specializing in government and industry negotiations. Learning Objectives include: Negotiation Basics – planning for, conducting and documenting negotiations Start with an Ideal and End with a Deal – discriminating between wants and needs, evaluating ideals and t...