The American Council for Technology and Industry Advisory Council (ACT-IAC) invites you to the Fraud and Abuse Forum on Thursday, July 20, 2017 at the Renaissance Washington in Washington, DC.The theme, ‘Requirements to Results: Fraud and Abuse Where We Are and What’s Next’, will focus on challenges of the Fraud Reduction and Data Analytics Act of 2015 and look to the future of fraud and abuse. In a report, issued on January...

AE 2017 is an education and training event that will bring together the government and industry acquisition communities in order to collaborate on the latest acquisition challenges and generate innovative solutions for potential implementation. AE2017 will provide you with the skills and knowledge you need to be effective. By participating in Acquisition Excellence 2017, attendees will learn best practices, network with fellow acquisition prof...

Acquisition is a Team Sport The acquisition process has several phases: research, proposals, pricing negotiations, accounting, legal, and ultimately, the integration of two, or more, entities. No one single person can be an expert in all of these segments, so teammates engage when needed and slip out when they've successfully completed their piece. While there is never really a large group of active people working on all of the tasks together...

Agencies such as Department of Homeland Security, Health and Human Services, and General Services Administration are among the many that indicate they rely on the Agile approach to IT development. Additionally several agencies have recently urged their procurement offices to operate using Agile principles in addition to buying from known Agile Services vendors. As the pressure continues to mount on Federal agencies to embrace Agile development...

The new date for Igniting Innovation 2017 is Wednesday, April 26th. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Igniting Innovation is the premier annual event to showcase innovations to improve services to citizens and government operations and recognize the best innovations with awards. Igniting Innovation is designed to recognize the best ideas and solutions to solve important problems and s...

The American Council for Technology and Industry Advisory Council (ACT-IAC) invites you to the Mobile Health Forum on Thursday, April 20th at the Renaissance Washington in Washington, D.C. Mobile Health Apps and Telehealth applications have the potential to transform the standard approach to treating, monitoring, and educating the patient populations. These bi-directional initiatives – via voice, text, data, camera images and or video f...

The American Council for Technology and Industry Advisory Council (ACT-IAC) invites you to the third annual CX Summit on Wednesday, April 5th at the Renaissance Washingtonin Washington, D.C. When thinking of a Government that delivers results for the public, do you think of: A Government that demonstrates it's value to the public through efficiency and effectiveness? A system that is fair and responsible to all cohorts when making decisions th...

In 2014 an announcement was made with plans to embark upon a new paradigm for purchasing by moving from managing purchases and prices individually across thousands of procurement units, to managing entire categories of common spend and total cost. The intention is to apply the principles of Category Management – used extensive in industry and other countries – to the Federal acquisition process. This is intended to be more than jus...

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...