Emerging Small Business Group Meeting with Kevin Boshears, OSDBU, DHS
Director, Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
ESBG Chair:
Director, Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
ESBG Chair:
Join the GTSC for an exclusive session with the CIO of the U.S. State Department
April 5, 2017
10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Session will discuss:
Join us for a special conversation with Frontis B. Wiggins, a member of the Senior Foreign Service with the rank of Minister-Counselor, and Chief Information Officer for the U.S. Department of State. In this capacity, he is responsible for the Department’s information resources and technology initiatives which provide core information, knowledge management, and technology (IT) services to the Department of State and its 260 overseas Missions. He is directly responsible for the Information Resource Management (IRM) Bureau’s budget of $569 million, and oversees State’s total IT/ knowledge management budget of approximately one billion dollars.
Chief Security Officer
U.S. Better Business Bureau
Ever wondered why so many companies have joined GTSC in such a short amount of time? In only 5 years, GTSC has grown to nearly 140 companies in the homeland and national security space. If you are a government contractor with interest in DHS, DOD, ODNI, State, Justice or Treasury — join us for a fun, informative breakfast to lock down your membership for 2017!
JOIN US MARCH 28
7:30 am – 9:00 am | Falls Church, VA
You will find out more about:
>>Programming — why is ours the best? Come find out
>>Members — why are GTSC members different?
>>Prices — why is GTSC the best value? How are we different from every other organization?
>>Events — why does GTSC have the best event reputation in town? What’s our secret?
Companies that join GTSC in March get some special treats — come on down and find out WHAT!!
REGISTER – this breakfast is for government contractors interested in learning more about the Government Technology & Services Coalition only.
ABOUT GTSC
CEO of PotomacWave Emma Sopko and Tricia O’Hara from CENTRA Technology made Fox News during the Veterans Inaugural Ball – Salute to Heroes hosted by the American Legion. The ball attracted Speaker Paul Ryan, Vice President Pence, and a number of other politicians and celebrities but most importantly, honored 31 medal of honor winners who attended the event.
Join GTSC for the first of two roundtables with
Jaclyn Smyth
Director, Strategic Sourcing
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
February 27, 2017 | 10:00 am – 12:00 pm | REGISTER
The issues around strategic sourcing in the federal government have raised a lot of angst among contractors. Efforts by the Departments of Defense (DOD), Homeland Security (DHS), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to strategically manage spending for information technology (IT) services, such as software design and development, have improved in recent years, currently managing between 10 and 44 percent of their IT services spending through preferred strategic sourcing contracts in fiscal year 2013. In contrast, GAO previously reported that leading companies generally strategically managed about 90 percent of their procurement spending, including services. DHS currently manages 44% of their IT services through preferred IT strategic sourcing contract vehicles.
To improve efforts to strategically source IT services, GAO recommended that each agency conduct spend analysis, monitor spending, develop savings goals and metrics, and consider the use of standardized labor categories, as appropriate for their agency. The agencies concurred with these recommendations.
Join us to learn more about how the initiative is being executed, DHS’s goals for the program, its impacts on the small business community and the plan moving forward for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security at the first of two in-depth roundtables on strategic sourcing.
ABOUT JACLYN
Jaclyn Smyth is the director of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Strategic Sourcing Program Office within the Office of the Chief Procurement Officer, where she oversees a portfolio of over 75 DHS-wide contract vehicles valued at more than $57 billion. She has several years of experience in federal procurement and acquisition-related fields, where she has worked on a wide variety of large-scale DHS and federal procurements. She lends her expertise in sourcing strategies and category management in the federal-wide Category Management Leadership Council. She was recently named the federal-wide security and protection category manager and leads a cross-agency category team. She is responsible for developing and implementing government-wide strategies that align with established category management principles and methodologies. Prior to her federal career, she served as a principal with E3 Federal Solutions for several years during which time she consulted on DHS procurements.
Diane Sahakian
Deputy Assistant Commissioner
Office of Acquisition
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
January 31, 2017 | 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
REGISTER
Ms. Sahakian will join us to discuss CBP’s spend in 2017, priorities, challenges, and new initiatives on her agenda.
ABOUT Diane Sahakian
Ms. Sahakian was promoted to Deputy Assistant Commissioner in the Office of Acquisition at CBP. Prior to that she oversaw an average annual spend of $2.7 Billion of operational contracting activities for CBP and worked closely with the Executive Director in managing the non-operational side of the house. Major CBP missions supported are for the Border Patrol, the Air and Marine Office, the Field Operations Office, and the Information Technology Office. Prior to this appointment, Mrs. Sahakian served as the CBP Chief of the Contracting Office, managing the annual CBP procurement spend which at the time was approximately $3.5 Billion. She was a contract administrator in private industry for four years prior to joining the former U.S. Customs Service in 1985. During her tenure at the legacy U.S. Customs Service and CBP, she served as the lead contract officer and manager in support of the Office of Air and Marine, the contract manager for the Seized Property program, and the Division Director for Border Patrol Contracting. She has a BA in Economics from Tufts University and Masters Certificates in both Project Management and Commercial Contracting from George Washington University. Mrs. Sahakian is a graduate of the Federal Executive Institute’s Leadership for Democratic Society program and the Harvard Kennedy School’s Senior Managers in Government program.