• Wednesday, March 8 and Thursday, March 9, 2023
• This is a 2-day event (held over 2 days) 
  • You must attend both days to receive credit.

• 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM ET on both days

• Virtual via Zoom 

Contract managers are uniquely positioned to drive creative solutions when the stakes are high.  Creative problem solving is not a nice-to-have skill at the upper levels of management. It’s a make-or-break skill required at all levels of contract management. You can develop creative contracting solutions through practice.  Join this immersive virtual workshop for hands-on experience thinking critically and designing acquisition solutions, working side by side with industry and government. 

In this course, you’ll contend with a deceivingly complex case study about a critical need to deliver army camouflage patterns to our warfighters. Experience the true stressors and challenges that roil such a meaningful acquisition, and practice managing them along with cost, schedule, performance, and risk. The lessons from this case study transfer to all types of acquisitions across industry and government. 

Intended Audience:

•   Federal contracting buyers and sellers

CMBOK Competencies:

• A.1 Competence
• 1.1 Skills and Roles

• Robert F. Mortlock, Ph.D., Col., USA (Ret.)

Robert F. Mortlock, Ph.D., Col., USA (Ret.)managed defense systems development and acquisition efforts for the last 15 of his 27 years in the U.S. Army. He’s now a professor of the practice, teaching defense acquisition and program management in the Department of Defense Management at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. He holds a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley; an MBA from Webster University; an M.S. in national resource strategy from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces; and a B.S. in chemical engineering from Lehigh University. He holds DAWIA Level III certifications in management, test and evaluation, and engineering, as well as the Project Management Professional and Program Management Professional credentials.

Credits:  

• 5.0 CPE/CLP credits for participation 

Cost: 

• $289 member / $385 non-member

 Course Access:

• After registration, to access your course, visit My Virtual Training. 
•  *Note: you must be logged into your NCMA profile to access your courses on My Virtual Training. 

Connectivity Requirements:

• This training is conducted through My Virtual Training and presented via Zoom. 
• To have all the zoom features available during the live virtual training, we recommend using the most up-to-date version of Zoom for your system.