Simplified Acquisitions. How do they play into your strategy?What exactly is a Simplified Acquisition and why do they matter? How do you pursue these opportunities and are you familiar with how agencies advertise them? Were you aware procurements conducted under Simplified Acquisition Procedures (SAP) actually favor small businesses?During FY2010, twenty federal agencies issued more than 585,000 Simplified Acquisition contract actions totaling...

If your facility generates hazardous waste, you must comply with detailed regulatory requirements for waste characterization, container marking and labeling, waste minimization, manifesting, transportation, emergency response, and land disposal certification. EPA and state regulations require annual hazardous waste management training. At this two-day class you will learn the latest requirements of the law and how to comply. This course will t...

The newly elected Congress means changes to the political landscape, and government procurement is no exception. Understanding where procurement policy and oversight are headed in this new environment is vital to government contractor business planning. Get the information you need to develop your business strategies in 2011. Procurement Reform and Defense Spending: How will upcoming acquisition policy, oversight, and defense efficiency and ma...

Management Skills for New Government Managers Step into Your New Career Role with Confidence and Knowledge Motivate your team by asserting your own management style Explore Communication Strategies that Better Relate to Your Employees Needs Examine which vehicles of communications work within your team culture Develop your Problem-Solving and Conflict Resolution Skills Resolve difficult situation with the right set of solutions Learn how to Co...

The increasing level of combat system integration and communications requirements, coupled with shrinking defense budgets and shorter product life cycles, offers many challenges and opportunities in the design and acquisition of new combat systems. This three-day course teaches the systems engineering discipline that has built some of the modern military’s greatest combat and communications systems, using state-of-the-art systems enginee...

This introductory course has recently been expanded to three days by popular demand. It has been taught to thousands of industry professionals for more than two decades, to rave reviews. The course is intended primarily for non-technical people who must understand the entire field of commercial satellite communications, and who must understand and communicate with engineers and other technical personnel. The secondary audience is technical pe...

Introduction. Basic Descriptions, Terminology, and Concepts Related to Signals, Imaging, and Processing for science and engineering. Analog and Digital. Data acquisition concepts. Sampling and Quantization. Signal Processing. Basic operations, Frequency-domain filtering, Wavelet filtering, Wavelet Decomposition and Reconstruction, Signal Deconvolution, Joint Time-Frequency Processing, Curve Fitting. Signal Analysis. Signal Parameter Extractio...

A GSA Schedule contract is one of the most widely used procurement vehicles by the federal government. If constructed and negotiated properly, it will be a powerful and efficient sales tool that gives you access and visibility to the entire federal market and in some instances state and local governments. Join Winvale and examine the benefits of holding a GSA Schedule contract, the process of submitting and negotiating a quality offer that wi...

OSHA's Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response rule at 29 CFR 1910.120 regulates cleanup sites, TSDs, and emergency responders. Sections 1910.120 (e) and (p) require workers engaged in hazardous waste operations and workers at TSDs to receive at least eight hours of refresher training annually. Emergency responders must receive annual training of sufficient duration and content to maintain their competencies. This eight-hour webcast...