All too frequently, good ideas that could benefit the federal government never make it to their attention due to the costs of creating and marketing such innovations. Many small and mid-sized businesses are starved of resources and capital that can allow their company to succeed in the federal marketplace or do not have the access to secure additional funding to make their dream idea a reality. Does your company have ideas, innovations or serv...

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...

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...