by: Jane Ann Magness, Contracts Manager Every contract has a beginning, middle, and an end. In the middle, there usually are Option Year Renewal opportunities, the point at which the contract is “renewed” for another year of performance. The year mark of a contract or task order can be a…
By: Bob Burnett, Vice President of Business Development Overview Every year in early November, the senior leadership team at VectorCSP gets together over a two-day period to prepare for the upcoming year. This event is strategic in nature as we define the objectives necessary to increase the performance, capability, revenue,…
By: Stan Walz, Chief Executive Officer One of the simplest and most important things business leaders can do is to genuinely, and intensely, focus on the missions of their clients. It may be obvious that part of the requirement to fulfill any service support contract is to respond to the…
By: Tracy Simmons, Fleet Account Program Manager The Current Environment The U.S. labor force is declining as evidenced by a stagnant or shrinking labor pool and a participation rate that is falling to all-time lows in nearly every demographic. The unemployment rate has also been steadily dropping since the Great…
By: Dave Boseman, AFSOC Program Manager “But that’s the way we’ve always done it.” This is a phrase I heard often from a former employee. This employee had been doing the same job for over 15 years and was comfortable with the status quo and refused to change, even after…
By Mark Peters, Innovation Analyst and VectorCSP Site Lead for Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) Training Innovation Assisting, tracking, and monitoring the rapid transformation of Air Force Special Operation Forces (AFSOF) training is critical for our client’s ability to lead through accelerated and deliberate strategies. AFSOC training innovation support…
By: Frances Sherlock, Proposal and Social Media Coordinator; Stan Walz, CEO; Janis Nagy, CSO; Damien Walz, COO; Summer Vincent, HR Director; and Bob Burnett, VP of Business Development Why is our corporate logo so important? What does it mean? Most important, our corporate logo communicates our identity. Our unique symbol sets…
By Janis Nagy, Chief Strategy Officer I wanted to let everyone know about a project VectorCSP is working on with Thread, a non-profit based out of Baltimore. Thread engages underperforming high school students confronting significant barriers outside of the classroom by providing each one with a family of committed volunteers…
By: Bob Burnett, Vice President of Business Development If you were to distill government contracting into two macro buckets, you would end up with two categories, pursuing work and doing work. For Business Development (BD) professionals, the pursuing work phase is where we live and breathe; despite that, we know that work…
By Bob Burnett, Vice President of Business Development In this final installment of the 4-part series on Stoicism in Government Contracting, we focus on three more themes identified by The Daily Stoic that typify stoicism, namely Kindness, Amor Fati, and Memento Mori. Yes, you are reading correctly…those last two ideals…
