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Price it Right: Strategies for Pricing Contracts...

Revitalize your career as a government contract pricer. This whitepaper illuminates pricing essentials, covering regulations, risk factors, and profitable strategies. Explore fixed-price, cost-plus, and time-and-materials contracts, along with five proven…

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The Soaring Momentum of Cybersecurity Threats: A...

As air travel and defense demands surge, aeronautics contracting firms drive technological innovation. However, with progress comes cybersecurity threats exploiting critical systems. Learn how stringent regulations impact cost estimating and…

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Stop Analysis Paralysis: Best Ways to Read and...

This white paper guides contracting firms through the complex realm of government Requests for Proposals (RFP). It offers effective approaches to interpreting RFPs, understanding agency-specific language, and navigating communication nuances.…

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Keep it Realistic: Tips for Developing Accurate...

Whether you work in pricing for a government agency or a contracting firm, this paper provides essential cost estimating and analysis tips to help you do your job more accurately…

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Emerging Technology Challenge: Advancing Open...

This white paper is a summary of the results of ACT-IAC’s Emerging Tech Days, Use Case Summits, and other innovation focused events (e.g., Shark Tanks) and outlines how these approaches…

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Disruptive Technology in SOF-Peculiar...

Military history provides numerous instances of states failing to recognize the implications of disruptive innovations. Contentment with incremental improvements on existing capabilities, such as weapon hand grips, autonomous capabilities, and…

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Managing Insider Risk During Mergers and...

While loss of IP or sensitive data by individual companies can jeopardize shareholder assets, insider threats in some sectors–particularly the defense industrial base (DIB)–also imperil technologies and information that are…

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Middle-Tier Defense Acquisitions: Rapid...

The Department of Defense (DOD) is continually challenged to deliver capabilities to its warfighters at the pace of innovation and was required to establish guidance for an alternative acquisition process,…

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