The U.S. Small Business Administration works across all federal agencies to award at least 23% of all prime government contracting dollars to small businesses with specific statutory goals. Join us to learn the basics of government contracting such as the bidding process, small business set-asides, types of contracts, subcontracting, steps to improve your chances of winning a government contract, and how to get started as a government contractor.

Counselor-Trainer, Maria McElhenny will guide you on how to select a business entity and identify the steps to register your business and apply for a tax ID number. You will work on developing a smart business name and reserving your domain and social media names.

Learn how to plan and create a website that search engines will love so that you can rank higher and be found by more clients.

If you are interested in starting your own Family Day Care or Child Care Centerr, don’t miss the opportunity to attend this free workshop where you will receive resources for this purpose and also learn about how to become a business owner in a profitable and safe way. NOTE: THIS WORKSHOP WILL BE DELIVERED IN SPANISH.

Business Counselor Maria Ryan McElhenny will give you the formulas and tools needed to create attention-grabbing headlines for blog posts, social media, web pages, tag lines and more. You will work on creating and presenting three headlines for your company. Leave this workshop empowered and ready to use your new business headlines.

Join us for this session for women considering pursuit of social good by shifting their current business approach or starting a new business that does good and generates revenue. Bethany Blakey will teach you how to position your business as a socially responsible while you create a profitable business.

Do you know that LinkedIn is one of the most powerful business tools available today? This workshop will answer your LinkedIn questions, teach you how to optimize your profile so you reach the right target audience and show you how to search, connect and meet your most valuable potential connections such as clients, hiring managers, vendors, job candidates, recruiters and more. Our trainer, Mike Shelah will also teach you how to schedule a mee...

Find out what it takes to thrive in today's competitive procurement arena by connecting with key government agencies, prime contractors, and state & local representatives at the 15th Annual SMART PROC. Since 2002 SMART has provided a low-cost conference with no barrier for small business to participate that has attracted over 10,000 attendees from government, industry and academia with 50 annual exhibitors in this intimate venue located ne...

The NDIA 2017 Armament Systems Forum provides the U.S. and International Allied Armament government and industry framework understanding of the evolving global requirements and capabilities. The forum agenda communicates the trends in armament systems and technology which are shaping the enterprise today and in the future. Speakers, presentations, exhibits and demonstrations are planned to enable communication, networking, and collaboration to...

Come hear keynote speaker Congressman Rob Wittman, Chairman of the Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee, provide a "Capitol Hill Perspective of 355 Ship Navy Pitch and Budget Topline" on April 25! Mission Engineering is an emergent discipline in which system-of-systems engineering tools and practices are used to understand, model, analyze, architect, design and manage complex missions as end-to-end...