NCMA WORLD CONGRESS 2013Collaborative Contract Management Training: Embracing Change in a Dynamic Environment Join Us For... The National Contract Management Association'sWorld Congress 2013 this July in Nashville, Tennessee—with 140+ breakout sessions, you can customize your training experience to suit your individual needs! Why Attend World Congress? World Congress is hailed as a must-attend event because it's the most comprehensive t...

This event will be composed of the regularly scheduled bi-monthly meetings of the NDIA Contract Finance Committee (CF), Contract & Acquisition Management Committee (CAM), Legal Committee, and Procurement Planning Committee (PPC) to review issues of common interest or concern and to discuss future actions. The division's annual election of officers will be held during the PPC meeting. The Annual Howard H. Cork Memorial Award Dinner will als...

*This is a two-day event that begins at 9:00am and ends at 5:00pm both days This class covers the spectrum of the most important topics, from preparing for a proposal effort and making a bid-no-bid decision, to orchestrating a great proposal kickoff, driving subject matter experts to produce winning content, exhibiting superb leadership and management skills, optimizing proposal team performance, getting the most from the proposal color review...

OpTac International presents its Harvard University award winning research on SWAT and Critical Incident Management to prepare and enhance the skills of law enforcement personnel responsible for the management of these extreme events. Law enforcement administrators, executive officers, incident and tactical commanders, and SWAT team personnel will benefit from an improved understanding of critical incident management, and its associated legal...

*This is a two-day event that begins at 9:00am and ends at 5:00pm both days It’s a given – price is the most important part of the offer. This is especially true in the days when Lowest Price Technically Acceptable (LPTA) rules, and even when it is a Best Value procurement, the lowest bidder will most likely get the award. Most companies, however, miss the most important elements of process and deliverable for the cost volume, and...

This classified, no-media-allowed Symposium, hosted by NDIA’s Missile Defense Division and Strike, Land Attack and Air Defense Division, will give you unfiltered, unvarnished straight talk and discussion about the priorities and challenges of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Missile Defense Agency, and the Services with the global BMDS program and the state of Integrated Air and Missile Defense overall, including an update on...

This workshop teaches valuable skills in designing, laying out, and publishing proposals—presenting your company’s offer in the most professional light to the proposal evaluators. The course begins with a foundation in the tools and features MS Word offers to the desktop publisher, and shortcuts to increase speed and efficiency. The course advances into the selection of color palette and styles, tables of contents, headers and foot...

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...

Attend an upcoming 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 specialist or contracting officer properly manage...

*This is a two-day event that begins at 9:00am and ends at 5:00pm both days Your chances of winning government proposals without capture are the same as cutting classes during the semester and hoping to get an A on the final exam. Foundations of Capture Management course will arm you with real knowledge and tools you can apply immediately to capturing contracts and dramatically improving your odds of winning. Master techniques for customer eng...