Current Trends in International Trade Enforcement, Compliance & Investigative Responses ...Exercising Reasonable Care over imports, strict liability for export violations, penalties, liquidated damages, detentions, seizures, forfeitures, audits, subpoenas, search warrants, suspension of export privileges, bad publicity… imprisonment?! The “parade of horribles” that can befall U.S. importers and exporters can lead to many...

Federal agencies spend about $90 billion on IT each year — but less than a third of that goes to the development and modernization of systems. The rest of the federal IT budget is dedicated to keeping old systems up and running, a cost that only continues to increase as the systems get older and older. And to add insult to injury, those antiquated legacy systems are remarkably harder to operate securely. Join federal officials and other...

We welcome you to join us as we offer a gathering of CPIC Community's IT Professionals to share knowledge, lessons learned and best practices. Limited seating remains available for this courtesy community event. Speakers will be posted soon, so please visit our website for details at cpicforum.org

Information security training in Tysons Corner from SANS Institute the global leader in cybersecurity training. Securing and defending your network has never been more important as attacks and breaches make the news daily. Gain the skills and tools you need to win the battle against the wide range of cyber adversaries who want to harm your environment by attending SANS Tysons Corner Spring 2017 (March 20-25). Choose from several hands-on, inte...

Federal use of mobile technologies continues to mature. Since the advent of the mobile government movement, agencies have developed more effective security policies, clarified their choices of eligible mobile devices, and built a number of mobile applications for agency use and for deployment to the public. This webinar will explore the management and policy issues surrounding mobile devices and how to deliver government’s mission more e...

Every day, contractors are removed from the competitive range of procurements because of inadequate or nonresponsive proposals. This session will provide a comprehensive, section-by-section review of the “request for proposals” (RFP), as well as how to prepare adequate and responsive proposals—including format; technical, management, and cost volumes; and the FARclauses “incorporated by reference.” Takeaways: A s...

Who should attend: This key course is essential for all contractors. It is designed for professionals with 1 or more years of experience with cost and price information. Attendees include accounting, finance, compliance, management, contracting personnel and anyone who must have a solid knowledge of cost and price analysis. What you will learn: Government Contracting Officers are required to “purchase supplies and services from responsib...

Gone are the days when cybersecurity issues were relegated to the back office IT shops. Now security is a part of how all of government works. However, just because maintaining high performing cybersecurity systems is a major priority for all agencies doesn’t mean there aren’t still challenges. Everything from ransomware, to insider threats, to optimizing cyberphysical systems are critical issues for agencies. In order to better un...

It is impossible to imagine modern sales and marketing without visual elements—and proposals are no different. Graphics serve as one of the most important proposal persuasion elements. Professional graphics artists are not the only ones who need to learn how to conceptualize and design persuasive proposal graphics. It also happens to be an indispensable skill for capture managers, proposal managers, and proposal writers. Desktop publishe...

A variety of five qualitative and quantitative methodologies are discussed in detail during this three-day workshop. The “do’s & don’t” of report writing are covered. Field evaluations are conducted. Students will learn the differences between qualitative and quantitative risk analysis. They will use a variety of methodologies by evaluating single or multiple buildings and critical infrastructure nodes. This worksho...