Attend an upcoming National Contract Management Association (NCMA) National Education Seminar! The COR Member of the Acquisition Team: The Contracting Officer's Representative (COR) Guide to Performance and Quality The "COR Member of the Acquisition Team” National Education Seminar (NES) is designed to better illustrate the important role that the contracting officer’s representative (COR) plays in ensuring that the contract speci...

Do you handle any part of the travel management process or need insight into the procurement side of managed travel? Gain valuable procurement insights and best practices at GBTA Procurement Symposium 2012. GBTA has partnered with the Institute for Supply Management™ (ISM) to present the GBTA Procurement Symposium 2012 - October 23-24, Los Angeles, CA. This event features up-to-date insights, tools, best practices, and strategies to help...

GEAR UP West is a collaborative regional conference for college access practitioners from the western states of the US. The conference will be held October 21-23 at the Grand Hyatt in Seattle, WA. This year's conference will feature: Pre-conference session on dropout prevention Bill Gates, Sr. First Generation film screening and Q&A with the filmmakers Dr. Debra Saunders-White, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Higher Education Programs Leade...

The federal government plans to spend at least $75 billion on IT investments in fiscal year 2012. The size of this investment highlights the importance of reliably estimating the costs of IT acquisitions. A reliable cost estimate is critical to the success of any IT program, providing the basis for informed decision making, realistic budget formulation, and meaningful progress measurement. Without the ability to generate such estimates, progra...

The VA SCAN Conference is an annual IT security conference that brings together over 150 information security professionals from all over the Commonwealth of Virginia and surrounding states. This year's conference is being held at the Virginia Military Institute's new Center for Leadership and Ethics, on October 9-10, 2012, in Lexington, VA. The keynote speaker for the 2012 VA SCAN Conference is Stacy Halota, the head of Information Security a...

Developed by Human Capital Media, publishers of Chief Learning Officer, Talent Management and Diversity Executive magazines, Talent Strategies D.C. will be the first conference of its kind to bring together key human capital constituencies within various government agencies, branches of the military and leading private organizations, to explore the intersection between public and private industry human capital practice.This event will delve in...

Important Note All course materials and handouts will be provided to students on CD ROM. Please bring a laptop computer that is equipped with a CD ROM with you to the class. If you do not have access to a laptop, please contact the respective meeting planner as soon as possible. There will be a limited number of laptops available for use through NDIA, so please call early. Overview The Defense Systems Acquisition Management course meets the ne...