Contracts Industry Council (CIC) Update CDCA Small Business and Industry Outreach Initiative (SBIOI) Symposium #45 09 September 2017 Contracts Industry Council (CIC) Update Manny Lovgren Industry Team Lead

What is the CIC? Forum of Government and industry partners to develop a culture of continuous improvement in order to produce better products/services for the warfighter We exchange ideas with the goal of enhancing processes in order to do things smarter, better, and more efficiently Our collaboration helps the SPAWAR/Industry team co-evolve our technologies to maintain our competitive advantage and best address Warfighter challenges The CIC membership is comprised of SSC LANT Government personnel and six (6) Industry members

What is the CIC? (Cont.) The industry members are nominated by the respective Presidents of the AFCEA Lowcountry (3 members) and the CDCA (3 members) represent small, mid-sized and large business They are approved and appointed by the CIC Chair (Steve Harnig) Serve a 3 year term Other professional organizations, such as TASC, NDIA, and WID, doing business with SSC LANT may nominate Associate Members

What is the CIC? (Cont.) Associate Members are invited to: Attend  planning, ‘post-review, and action item execution’ meetings with the extended CIC partners Provide feedback to standing CIC members when solicited for input Submit issues/concerns to CIC members for presentation at meetings Do not submit issues or concerns related to a specific RFP or Sources Sought. Those should be addressed with the associated SSC LANT Contracts person We post CIC meeting minutes on the CDCA and AFCEA websites

Contracts Industry Council (CIC) Representatives Developed a collaborative, problem solving team environment between SSC Atlantic and industry Government Members Steve Harnig (Chair) Kelly Cannady Sheela Casper Donna Murphy Audrey Orvin Kristy Penninger Lisa Rosenbaum Robin Rourk Jesse Seaton Pete Van de Moulebroeke Industry Members Manny Lovgren, (Team Lead), AFCEA, Mid-size Business Amy Bare, AFCEA, Large Business Gary Jaffe, CDCA, Small Business Derrick Nixon, CDCA, Mid-size Business Jennifer Osment, AFCEA, Small Business Heather Walker, CDCA, Large Business

Notable CIC Initiatives Continue to receive feedback from industry on successes/ improvements Continue to collect and discuss feedback from the Tech Exchanges and Industry days to make them even better, to include more time with technical leads in 1-on-1 sessions Worked to improve the Task Order Forecast to make it more valuable to industry with respect to the data included and continue to refine based on inputs gathered CIC is looking into issues with the new base access process.  SSC Atlantic moved to an automated Check In-Check Out (CICO) Move/Add/Change (MAC) Process Provide feedback on Industry Media Campaigns – How can SSC LANT incorporate Social Media into their internal efforts Provided details on FEDSIM Reviewed and provided feedback on the DD254 issues/ guidance document that was recently distributed and posted on eCommerce Continuing to gather and share intel on the Seaport-e follow-on (Seaport NxG) Gathered and shared intel on the path NAVAIR is taking for their new acquisition strategy

Upcoming Initiatives Establish a government/ Industry working group to develop a solution on standard labor categories (Gary, Derrick, and Heather will be working it from the industry side) Host another CIC (Industry) Planning Meeting Host a town hall with Steve Harnig