Offutt Air Force Base is home of the 55th Wing, the Fightin' Fifty-Fifth, and a variety of tenant units. Offutt’s diverse missions and global responsibilities put it on the cutting edge of the Air Force’s transformation. Each branch of the US military is represented among the approximately 12,000 military and federal employees assigned here. The 55th Mission Support Group provides vital mission support for Offutt AFB through engine...

Making the Most of License Exception STA Each participant will receive the ECTI License Exception STA Compliance Checklist, an invaluable tool to help your organization comply with every export. Export control reform is here, and hopefully you are already experiencing some relief. But you may have also discovered a catch. The changes relax certain export controls, but they do not simplify them. The rules are now even more complex. Both the U.S...

Specifically designed for small business concerns, this course will provide a roadmap of the Federal procurement protest process from start to finish in all of the relevant forums, including the Small Business Administration (SBA). Get up-to-date on the rules, procedures, substantive and procedural requirements, and strategy involved in the various protest forums - the agency, the GAO, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, and the SBA. Exercising...

Federal Sales Boot Camp The Federal Government consistently misses its Small Business Goals... Yet, it's difficult for Small Businesses to break into Government Agencies. What’s up with that? The truth is that there is less than "full and open competition" as you might initially interpret it to mean. It is vital to understand the government contracting environment as it actually operates. This includes both the written and unwritten rul...

Additive manufacturing (AM) — referred to as “three-dimensional” or “3D” printing—is a potential game changer with important implications to the DoD and federal government. The technology allows the “art to part” fabrication of complex objects from a computer model without part-specific tooling or human intervention. Because of its ability to produce a wide variety of objects, AM also can have si...

The two-day general session will assemble the Key Organizations and the Senior Leading Experts that are shaping the direction of ISR current requirements and exposing the many future capabilities for the services and public service sectors. The Services’ ever increasing roles for ISR assets are permeating across a very broad range of critical missions, including but not limited to: Persistent Global Surveillance & Global Strike, Cou...

Global Intelligence Forum - "The Role of Intelligence in Meeting Europe's Emerging Security Challenges" The world is changing…and so must the role of Intelligence! Last year’s inaugural unclassified Global Intelligence Forum (Brussels) explored the intelligence lessons learned and not learned since 9/11. Lord Robertson, former Secretary General of NATO, noted that Europe “… collectively woke up to the importance of in...

Conference focusing socioeconomic and social factors impacting health and health equity in Australia. Five years on from the WHO's Commission on the Social Determinants of Health, Closing the Gap Within a Generation, the report is now achieving growing prominence in Australia's health policy setting. In March 2013, the Senate released its response to the report and recommended that the federal government adopt the WHO report's recommendations...

An unexpected yet highly prosperous volume of crude condensate is now being produced alongside the vast amounts of oil and natural gas being recovered from North American shale plays such as the Bakken and Utica. The Eagle Ford alone reached 153,322 bpd of condensate in 2013 making up an astonishing 40% of total hydrocarbon production in the play. There is a huge commercial opportunity for E&P companies in producing condensate; the number...

Graphene's incredible properties have potentially game-changing implications across an enormous range of industries and applications; the possibilities for which are expanding dramatically since its discovery in a Manchester laboratory 9 years ago. Despite the opportunity, the absence of production scale-up has failed to pull graphene out of research and into mass market, leaving many to ask: how can the critical challenges and adoption barrie...