MichealM's blog

Small business owners often vividly remember the moment when their entrepreneurial spirit was sparked. Mary Sheetz, principal and CEO for Consulting Concepts & Innovations, LLC (CCI), recalled that moment during Women Impacting Public Policy (WIPP)'s “Leveraging Relationships to Drive your ...

"Congress always cuts," began Ray Bjorklund, Deltek's Chief Knowledge Officer, as he launched into his GFY2012 Government Trends update at NeoSystems on Thursday morning. But where and how Congress cuts isn't always obvious. For contractors who were curious about why they felt the pinch in ...

NeoSystems and Bisnow played host on Thursday to an informative two-part breakfast session that welcomed an interview with Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) Director Patrick Fitzgerald and the latest insights from Deltek's Chief Knowledge Officer, Ray Bjorklund. Fitzgerald, who was ...

Getting an invite to the exclusive Deltek Holiday Party means that you're someone of importance in the world of government contracting. And last week, hundreds of the D.C. Metro area's most important business leaders and associates gathered at the Ritz-Carlton in Tysons Corner, Va. to take a few ...

Starting today, Deltek's GovWin IQ team will celebrate the 90th anniversary of American Education Week (Nov. 13-19) by presenting a series of four articles that will highlight the current state of the $9.3 billion education IT market, and look at opportunities through 2012. In the featured ...

Last evening, the Ritz Carlton in Tysons Corner, Virginia became the center of the government contracting world, as over 900 business owners, founders and executives gathered to celebrate the achievements of their companies and offer a sportsman-like recognition for their competitors. The 9th ...

Experience knows. And as Jim McCarthy proved during this week's GovWin Business Development (BD) Weekly Webinar called "10 Keys to Successful Capture: Unlocking the Tactical Sales Secrets," he knows a great deal about what your sales and capture teams are doing wrong. As AOC Key Solutions' ...

Knowing where to fight crime is becoming one of the many tools that police agencies are using to reduce crime rates while they experience reductions in state and local funding. Though the technology isn't up to the level seen in the movie "Minority Report," where criminals are arrested for crimes ...

Most defense contractors will probably never get the satisfaction of squeezing the trigger of their company's best-selling enemy eliminator in real life. So what if they could, in a video game? Meet Battlefield 3, the much-anticipated video game in Electronic Arts' award-winning military-themed ...

As part of Deltek's ongoing coverage for opportunities during Crime Prevention month, we spoke with Research Analyst Kristin Howe, a member of the Justice and Safety Team, about the growing business for red light cameras. While the use of camera-enabled red lights can be a controversial decision ...