Think tanks have historically been part of many major global initiatives. An expert from the Brookings Institution made key recommendations for the plan to rebuild Europe after World War II. The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace played an important role in promoting the approval of the United Nations anti-Genocide Convention in 1948. Some think tanks […]
Nonprofit organizations account for at least five percent of the U.S. economy and about 10 percent of the workforce, according to the Stanford Social Innovation Review. While the humanitarian impact of the coronavirus pandemic posed new challenges for the sector, it also mobilized the community at a time when it is needed most. Despite their dissimilar […]
The early months of the coronavirus pandemic brought about a decade’s worth of digital transformation in the business and government sectors, according to Futurum Research analyst Daniel Newman. He expects the accelerated pace of digital transformation to continue driving advancements in 5G, artificial intelligence, customer data platforms, cloud technology, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and “headless tech.” For […]
Advancements in sensor technology are driven by innovation in its manufacturing processes and its many moving parts, including high-speed electronic circuits and signal processing technologies. But just as sensors research benefits from other fields, it also gives back by enabling many segments of the government contracting sector. BehrTech, a wireless connectivity technology company, expects large sensor networks to […]
Nuclear power accounts for nearly 20 percent of the electricity generated in the United States, according to the Department of Energy, which is responsible for advancing the government’s mission to secure domestic sources of energy. The government contracting sector plays an important role in that mission. As of December 2020, the United States had 94 […]
There were about 6,272 unique employee stock ownership plans in the United States as of 2018, the most recent year for which data is available, according to the National Center for Employee Ownership. Underlying worker ownership supports the principle that Americans want to work for themselves. Still, Harvard Business Review argues that the true test of employee ownership […]
Women business owners in most countries face more challenges in comparison to men, according to a 2017 research by the U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. The report identified three major obstacles: a lack of role models and mentors, the gender pay gap and unequal access to funding and venture capital. In the […]
The federal government has deemed it a moral obligation to provide more economic opportunities to veterans disadvantaged by a disability. Through certain provisions under the Small Business Act of 1951, the government is mandated to set aside 3 percent of its federal contracting dollars to service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses each year. Service-disabled veterans are also […]
Capture and proposal management are valuable phases in the federal business development lifecycle. The capture manager is responsible for everything that occurs between opportunity identification and proposal submittal, according to the KSI consulting firm. Businesses often focus on how their internal capabilities and offerings can satisfy a customer’s needs, but capture and proposal management are […]
In late 2020, the government’s COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium provided medical researchers with the brute computational power they needed to identify potential near-term therapies for patients afflicted with the coronavirus. HPC systems can perform up to quintillions of calculations per second and unlock a world of possibilities outside the bounds of consumer-grade electronics. The technology’s applications […]
