New challenges have emerged from the new Small Business Jobs Act, including strict liability for misrepresentation of size. Other issues such as personal conflicts of interest policies, changes in small business size standards, and the constant threat of insourcing continue to frustrate and concern small and mid-sized companies interested in continuing their work in the federal market. Join us for a discussion of how these changes impact you, and how you can prepare and thrive despite them.
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Presented by
Rob Burton, Partner, Venable

About Rob Burton
Robert A. Burton is a nationally-recognized leader in federal procurement who focuses his practice on assisting government contractors navigate the complex and rule-driven procurement process. He also assists contractors with their marketing strategies for selling to the federal agencies. A thirty-year veteran of procurement law and policy development, Mr. Burton served in the Executive Office of the President as Deputy Administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP), the nation’s top career federal procurement official. During his seven-year tenure at OFPP, he served as Acting Administrator for more than two years. At OFPP, Mr. Burton prepared policy positions and worked with House and Senate committees on the development of acquisition legislation. He also served as the principal spokesperson for government-wide acquisition initiatives and regulations. Prior to joining OFPP, Mr. Burton spent more than twenty years as a senior acquisition attorney with the Department of Defense, negotiating the resolution of high-profile contract disputes and procurement fraud cases.
Mr. Burton has joined the GTSC as a Strategic Advisor to assist members with contracting procurement and marketing questions and advice.

Join us for a discussion of the future of the homeland and national security markets with:

Jason Kaufman, Managing Director

&

Dr. Gary Shiffman, Managing Director

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The Chertoff Group, a GTSC Strategic Partner, joins the Coalition to provide a detailed and informative assessment of the homeland and national security markets.  The briefing will highlight the insights, wise counsel and operational experience of The Chertoff Group’s senior Principals who have served at the highest levels of government in the National Security community and overseen billions of dollars of technology development and acquisition for the US Department’s of Defense, Homeland Security, and Justice, as well as at the National Security Agency, and the Central Intelligence Agency. In addition senior members of our team have held C-suite and P&L level responsibilities at global technology companies such as L-3 Communications and QinetiQ.  Mr. Kaufman and Dr. Shiffman have keen insight into which new technologies are likely to transform the landscape, and our experience allows us to predict which ones may be headed for obsolescence.

About Jason Kaufman

Areas of Focus:

• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Private Equity Investments
• Defense Technology
• Government Services
• Cybersecurity

Jason brings to The Chertoff Group over twelve years of investment banking and private equity investing experience, exclusively focused on middle market defense and government services companies.  During his career, he has advised on over 50 merger, acquisition, private placement, and corporate divestiture transactions worth over $2.5 billion in deal value.  He has advised and closed transactions with many of the leading firms in the defense and government services market, including AECOM Technology Corporation, BAE Systems, The Boeing Company, CSC Corporation, Honeywell International, Lockheed Martin, ManTech International, NCI Information Systems, Raytheon Company, and Veritas Capital.

At The Chertoff Group, Jason provides M&A advisory services to the firm’s clients to assist them in achieving their strategic objectives.  Prior to joining The Chertoff Group, Jason was a Senior Vice President at BB&T Capital Markets | Windsor Group. He began his career with Jefferies Quarterdeck.

Jason received a MBA from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, and a BS from Georgetown University.

About Dr. Gary Shiffman
Areas of Focus:

• Terrorism, insurgency, and organized crime
• Border security and facilitation
• Emergency/incident management, institutional resiliency
• Business growth in challenging markets
• Global economic trends and national/homeland security

Previous Government Service:

• Professor, Security Studies, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service (2002 – pres)
• Sr. Vice President, General Manager, L-3 Services Group and L-3 Risk Management Solutions, GS&ES (2006-2009)
• Chief of Staff, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (2004-2006)
• National Security Advisor, U.S. Senate (1996-2000)
• U.S. Navy, Gulf War veteran.

Dr. Shiffman brings to the Chertoff Group a deep terrorism/counter-terrorism expertise married with successful P&L experience at a Fortune 200 corporation. A prominent economist, he is well known for his perceptive application of economic insights to business leadership, and national and homeland security.

While at L-3, Dr. Shiffman developed a global strategy and associated organizational design for a $4 billion business group to diversify into new security markets, and he turned around a $100M business unit by focusing business structure, processes, and human capital on risk management and resiliency solutions.

During his tenure at DHS, Dr. Shiffman led many border security and facilitation policy initiatives, including the Secure Border Initiative Working Group which successfully re-engineered border enforcement and security processes. He also supported the development of the department’s framework for risk management and metrics.

Prior government service includes appointment as National Security and Senior Policy Advisor to the leadership of the U.S. Senate, and positions in policy, planning, and operations in the US Department of Defense. He is a decorated combat veteran.

Dr. Shiffman earned a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Colorado, Boulder; an M.A. in National Security Studies from Georgetown University; and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from George Mason University. He published Economic Instruments of Security Policy in 2006.

Join the Coalition to hear more about the DHS budget for 2012/13 with

Peggy Sherry
Acting Chief Financial Officer

Elizabeth Gelfer
Acting Budget Director, DHS

Morgan Geiger
Deputy Director
Program Analysis & Evaluation, DHS

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The Office of the Chief Financial Officer (OCFO) is responsible for the fiscal management, integrity and accountability of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The mission of the OCFO is to provide guidance and oversight of the Department’s budget, financial management, financial operations for all Departmental management and operations, the DHS Working Capital Fund, grants and assistance awards, and resource management systems to ensure that funds necessary to carry out the Department’s mission are obtained, allocated, and expended in accordance with the Department’s priorities and relevant law and policies.

Peggy Sherry is the Department of Homeland Security’s acting Chief Financial Officer. Ms. Sherry joined the Department in 2007 as the Director for OFM, and was responsible for developing department-wide financial management policy, leading the department’s financial
audits, and preparing department-wide financial reports. Ms. Sherry moved to Deputy CFO before accepting the role of acting CFO during the administrative transition. Prior to joining the Department, Ms. Sherry was the Deputy Chief Financial Officer for the United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum. Under her leadership, she oversaw the successful conversion to the Museum’s new financial management system and instituted processes to obtain seven unqualified audit opinions on the Museum’s financial statements. Ms. Sherry was an auditor with the Government Accountability Office for more than nine years and oversaw numerous financial audits, including leading segments of the financial statement audit of the U.S. government. Prior to her service in the public sector, she worked as a financial manager in the banking and construction industries.

Ms. Sherry has her Bachelors degree in Accounting from George Mason University and a
Masters in Accounting and Finance from the University of Maryland (UMUC). Ms. Sherry is a
Certified Public Accountant and a Certified Financial Government Manager.

Join us to hear from two of the rockstars at DHS:

Nick Nayak
Chief Procurement Officer
DHS

Kevin Boshears
Director
Office of Small & Disadvantaged Business Utilization
DHS

Dr. Cedric Sims
Executive Director, Program Accountability & Risk Management

Mui Erkun
Ombudsman, DHS

Dan McLaughlin
Director

Mike Smith
Director, Strategic Sourcing

We will discuss the DHS’ strategic procurement plan and their plans for small business contracts for the remainder of FY 2012. This meeting will focus on interactive Q&A and providing input to the highest levels at DHS on how your companies are managing in this economy.

APRIL 10, 2012
10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Location TBA

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About Nick Nayak
Nick Nayak has over 24 years of senior private, public and academic leadership experience. He has been a dynamic figure in the field of federal acquisition – helping to professionalize the federal acquisition workforce; implement methods to obtain acquisition savings; and recruit the next generation of acquisition professionals.

Nick served as Deputy Director for IRS Procurement responsible for support to the United States tax collection system. In this capacity, he managed operational procurement enabling IRS to collect nearly $2.7 trillion annually, funding a significant portion of the federal government.

Prior to serving as Deputy Director, Nick served in several high-impact leadership positions, including Director, Strategic Acquisition Initiatives, Deputy Director, Office of Information Technology Acquisition, Assistant to Director, Information Technology Program Management Office, Project Executive for the IRS Commissioner’s Security Readiness Project and Director, Treasury Acquisition Institute (TAI).

Nick has served in virtually every acquisition workforce role in government including program manager, contracting officer, procurement analyst, contracting officer’s technical representative, technical evaluation chair, purchase card approving official and competition advocate, as well as, contracts administrator, cost estimator and proposal writer in the private sector.

Nick has a Ph.D. in Administration and Management, an M.S. in Management and a B.S. in Finance and Economics. He has served as an adjunct professor for several universities and taught over 45 undergraduate and graduate business courses.

About Kevin Boshears
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Join us for an information packed day with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. A full agenda and registration information is available here.
GTSC is also offering headshots for a nominal fee before the event (pre-registration is required). Look forward to seeing you!

Join us for the first in a series of MEMBERS ONLY strategic sessions on the federal cyber security market — how Coalition members should view its opportunities and its challenges. This session will take a look at where cyber security funding is being directed and what kind of help Federal agencies will need to spend it wisely and to the best effect.
The session will also serve as a starting point for a broader thought leadership effort on how the public sector can become leaner and more effective through best practices in management and better use of qualified contractors.

Dr. Steven Bucci will lead this session with facilitation and subject matter expert support from Former DHS Inspector General Richard Skinner, Michelle Mrdeza and Kristina Tanasichuk. Other subject matter experts will be announced shortly. Registrants will receive a more detailed outline of the agenda, goals and requirements for the meeting in early January.

WHEN: January 25; 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
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Join us for “Coffee Talk” with Susan K. Hopkins, CEO & Founder, Dynamic Security Concepts, Inc. (DSCI)
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10:00 am – 11:30 am | Battelle Memorial Institute
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Susan K. Hopkins founded Dynamic Security Concepts, Inc. (DSCI) in 1995 and has grown the company to over $10 million in revenue. DSCI is a woman-owned small business with offices in Arlington, VA, and southern New Jersey. Susan has forged strong partnerships with the Science & Technology (S&T) Directorate of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Aviation Administration. Her company’s expertise includes systems engineering, design, test, and deployment of security equipment including Explosives Detection Systems (EDS) to support DHS’s mission of securing and managing our nation’s critical infrastructures and borders. DSCI’s experienced, knowledgeable staff of systems and process engineers supports the full systems life cycle, from the Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT&E) laboratory to operational environments throughout the United States. DSCI has also demonstrated its systems engineering and human factors engineering capabilities by conducting testing, and developing related documentation, at the Transportation Security Laboratory (TSL) in New Jersey and the TSA Systems Integration Facility (TSIF) at Ronald Reagan National Airport, Washington, DC.
Susan is personally committed to the DHS mission as a first responder; she is a volunteer firefighter. Susan drives this passion and focus to her company, taking risks when needed to support innovation and technology evolution throughout DHS. Susan’s international experience includes global security consulting. She performed analyses and made recommendations about the cultural impacts of technology upon Western European, Middle Eastern, and Asian countries.
Susan holds a M.S. Software Engineering from Monmouth University, and a B.S Information Systems Management from the University of Maryland.

Susan also serves in the following federal, state, and local community organizations:

Board of Directors for Homeland Security & Defense Business Council (HSDBC)
· Board of Directors for the New Jersey Shore Council’s Executive Board for the Boy Scouts of America
· Member of the Women in Homeland Security
· Mizpah NJ Atlantic County Volunteer Firefighter