Two concentrated days on how to understand and use the Federal Acquisition Regulation in your daily contracting activities including in-depth analysis of the FAR system, the key contract clauses and contract forms. Provides comprehensive coverage of the FAR for new users and an advanced treatment of specific issues for experienced contract professionals. Course includes an explanation and demonstration of how to use the FAR online for research...

Two concentrated days on how to understand and use the Federal Acquisition Regulation in your daily contracting activities including in-depth analysis of the FAR system, the key contract clauses and contract forms. Provides comprehensive coverage of the FAR for new users and an advanced treatment of specific issues for experienced contract professionals. Course includes an explanation and demonstration of how to use the FAR online for research...

Prerequisite: Should have at least six months of contract experience, have taken the FAR Workshop or another basic FAR course before this course. What you will learn: The Advanced FAR Workshop provides an in-depth analysis of the most important parts of the FAR. In this two-day class, we will focus on those FAR Parts that tend to generate the most issues and questions, specifically: • The classification of workers • Intellectual Prop...

Continental Breakfast (Provided) Introduction DCAA & Government/Commercial Cost Accounting Seminar Proper Segregation of Direct and Indirect Costs Accumulation of Direct Costs by Contract Allocation of Indirect Costs by Cost Objective Indirect Rate Methodologies Accumulation of Costs Under General Ledger Control Lunch (Provided) Labor Distribution-timecards vs. payroll Unallowable Costs Identification of Contract Line Item Internal Contro...

The Advanced Combat System Engineering – Lessons Learned course is designed for participants with a minimum of five years’ experience. This course will include a detailed focus on engineering incorporating threat analysis and algorithms – participants will also perform calculations. The instructors will share their lessons learned and participants will be required to present at least one of their lessons learned for discussion.

Working in a ship or repair yard is a dynamic environment. Shipyard Safety and Familiarization is a four hour course that introduces professionals to basic shipyard organization and safety practices. The course is designed to familiarize personnel entering the industry. It discusses organization and safety from both a vessel and shipyard perspective. The course is designed for new port engineers, project managers and industry personnel. The fo...

Luzerne County Community College will host a train-the-trainer program on suicide prevention, “QPR Gatekeeper Trainer Certification Course,” through which participants become certified trainers of the industry-leading QPR (Question Persuade Refer) approach to suicide prevention. The training will include an overview of research that led to development of this program, new and promising approaches to suicide prevention, national and...

As the maternal age is increasing and the American population is becoming more obese, the number of pregnancies complicated by diabetes and obesity also is increasing. The 14th Annual Meeting of the Diabetes in Pregnancy Study Group of North America serves as a vehicle for the dissemination of data, gathered through collaboration among basic, translational and clinical researchers and research centers, both nationally and internationally. This...

This timely one-day conference is intended to provide new evidence-based strategies for the diagnosis, monitoring and treatment, including many newly approved biologic therapies and surgery of common arthritic, rheumatic and autoimmune diseases. Local experts and renowned invited speakers, nationally known for their clinical and clinical research achievements, will provide state of the art summaries. In addition to lectures with questions and...

Overview: A One-Day Training Workshop for professionals to understand techniques and methods to implement UGG requirements, prepare for single audit updates, and glean insights on how to avoid common audit findings. The provisions of the far reaching guidance (2 CFR 200) are applicable for grants and co-operative agreements issued on or after December 26, 2014. Accordingly, grantors and grantees must follow two sets of guidance for the next f...