On October 7, 2010, the U.S. Small Business Administration published a final rule effective February 4, 2011, aimed at expanding federal contracting opportunities for women-owned small businesses (WOSBs). The Final Rule sets forth procedures authorized by the Small Business Act to help ensure a level playing field on which WOSBs can compete for Federal contracting opportunities, while helping achieve the existing statutory goal that 5 percent...

Join the “who’s who” of logistics at the leading event for senior-level defense logistics professionals! IDGA’s Military Logistics Summit 2010 will provide you with updated DoD mission priorities and the information you need to support major deployment, re-deployment, and distribution operations. The event will bring together the thought leaders and decision-makers in logistics, sustainment, and readiness operations to...

Keeping What You Have and Using Your Leverage to Create More: Succeeding When Government Contracting Dollars Shrink Federal contracting dollars have been plentiful during the current economic downturn, but all good things come to an end. Using your leverage now will allow you to sustain and grow in the leaner times ahead. Whether your current contracts were the result of deliberate efforts or accidental circumstances, only intentional actions...

Washington Breakfast ClubTM (WBC) is a monthly information exchange which features legislators, agency executives and officials from all branches of federal government presenting on relevant and timely information to interested industry participants.For the January 2010 kickoff, we welcome Mr. Jim Ghiloni, Director of Business and Acquisition Operations for GSA's Office of Assisted Acquisition Services (AAS), part of the Federal Acquisition Se...

If you do business in support of government agency requirements you should plan to attend For Government Contractors Only, a new edition of Business Over Breakfast™, the most productive government sector networking breakfast event in DC/MD/VA exclusively for B2G and B2B2G companies.For Government Contractors Only is a sister-activity of the weekly event that started more than fourteen years ago by Navy and Marine Veterans doing business...

When it comes to stimulus money no one is spending like the Department of Energy. Join us December 15 for our next Federal IT Breakfast & Schmooze as we host DOE CFO Steve Isakowitz who is guiding the department’s momentous spending. And Steve’s not just a pencil pusher - as a former exec at Lockheed and Booz Allen, not to mention a Master’s in aerospace engineering from MIT, he knows the info industry wants to hear.

Washington Breakfast Club™ (WBC) is a monthly information exchange which features legislators, agency executives and officials from all branches of federal government presenting on relevant and timely information to interested industry participants.For the November 2009 WBC we are pleased to welcome our friend Mary Parks of the U.S.General Services Administration who was selected as Deputy Associate Administrator of GSA’s Office of...