Small Business Federal Government Contracting

Nearing the end of a government fiscal year or under a government shutdown a contractor may find delays in funding reaching all the way to congress. This situation must be managed with the government contracting officer.

Some contractors choose to operate on “risk,” continuing to perform on a contract while exceeding the incremental funding in booked cost and obligations. The government is under no obligation to reimburse the contractor for amounts exceeding incremental funding.

Who Should Attend? Entrepreneurs, startups, and small businesses based in the United States that are building technologies and bringing them to market. Startup accelerators, incubators, university tech transfer offices, and other entrepreneur support organizations.

Stay tuned as new events are added throughout the Summit AND watch recording of prior events.

Top Pentagon officials said as currently executed, CMMC is too prohibitively burdensome on the Defense Industrial Base.The Pentagon is suspending part of its cybersecurity requirements for industry, specifically related to third party assessments, citing onerous burdens on especially smaller defense firms.

As the federal fiscal year draws to a close and the new year opens on 1 October, an astute contractor will have examined the funding status of all government contracts for risk. Limitation of funds and funding exposure must be a vital topic for every government contractor.

The branch formalizes space as a permanent war fighting specialty, with personnel focused on protecting U.S. assets and helping prevent adversaries from targeting joint forces from outside Earth’s atmosphere.

The distillation of the defense industry as the number of prime military contractors shrank from over fifty to just five, bodes poorly for both the military and taxpayer because it produces waste, not to mention a strong profit incentive for war.

By obtaining a veteran-owned small business certification you can get access to government contracts, gain credibility and customers in the business world, and enable qualification for specific veteran business incentives or grants.

Schedule delays across Major Defense Acquisition Programs (MDAP) signal overly optimistic time frames,” according to the GAO report, after examining 104 of the Pentagon’s most expensive weapons programs. “The overall average time frame to deliver a capability increased this year to over 12 years.

Conducting a Bid/No Bid Decision, developing a competitive strategy and preparing a winning proposal for a small business federal government contract.

War Force Program is supposed to be similar to the existing Tech Force program — announced in December and still ramping up — which offers $150,000 to $200,000 per year for an initial two-year term.

Now is the time to think through your marketing strategy and the various venues for contracting with the federal government. The primary venues and the opportunities they offer your small business.

Business software is inexorably tied to parallel developments in other areas of technology and the business software market is shifting in tandem with them.

Smart, strategic planners are pointing to the future and it is not a hardware and licensed software market.

Although by far the most powerful country in the world, the U.S. is suffering from a lack of long term vision. The individual citizen is as much at fault for this condition as the politician or the military industrial complex.

From our relationships with each other and with other countries, from corporate board rooms to Wall Street stock run ups, we must use long term strategic vision in lieu of pursuing short term gains.

Veterans regularly seek information regarding small business grants. There are many misconceptions about the nature of such instruments, who qualifies for them and what constitutes a small business grant.