Operations Report

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Operations Report

• Neal J. Couture, CPCM
• Executive Director
• Board of Directors Meeting
• Las Vegas, NV
• January 24, 2009

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Certification Program Plan

• Problem statement  NCMA certification is losing
  acceptance in the contract management profession.
  
• Desired state  Widely accepted certification
  program.
• Board concern need stakeholder input before
  redesigning program.
• survey of key stakeholders 1/09.
• UCPPC survey in process.

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CMBOK Project

• Requested proposal from Professional Examination
  Service (PES) to conduct study.
• Conduct professional practice (job) analysis.
• Competency and process based.
• Validated in a public process within our
  community.
• Output is a statistical analysis report.
• SMEs use this to write the details describing
  the definitions, processes, competencies, etc.
• Also used to develop legally defensible test
  specifications.
• Published document is a guide to the CMBOK.
• Target completion is 4/1/2010.

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• Last show airs 1/27/09 under existing format.
• Developing plans for new approach keeping GCW
  but producing as a podcast in-house.
• Weekly program
• News and analysis
• Interviews
• Audio-blog
• Sponsors and advertisers
• Member questions

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Deidre Lee, Congress Chair
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Featured Speakers

• Ralph Nash, Professor Emeritus, George Washington
  University Law School
• Charlie Williams, Director, Defense Contract
  Management Agency
• Jan Frye, Deputy Assistant Secretary for
  Acquisition and Logistics, Department of Veterans
  Affairs
• Dr. Kathleen Hall, Stress and Life Balance Expert
• Professor Steven Kelman, Weatherhead Professor of
  Public Management at Harvard University's John F.
  Kennedy School of Government
• Robert Burton, Partner, Venable LLP
• Larry Schultz, Vice President, Corporate Contract
  Compliance, Parker Hannifin Corporation
• Christopher Dorobek, Editor in Chief, Federal
  Computer Week

• Carly Fiorina, Chairman and CEO, Hewlett-Packard
  Company (1999-2005) and Author of the Bestseller,
  Tough Choices
• The Honorable Thomas Davis III, former
  Representative, Eleventh District of Virginia,
  and Director, Deloitte Federal Government
  Services
• Congressman Darrell Issa, 49th District - CA (R),
  Ranking Republican Member, House Oversight and
  Government Reform Committee (invited)
• General Lester Lyles, USAF (Ret.), Board of
  Directors for General Dynamics Corporation,
  Battelle, MTC Technologies, Inc. and former
  Commander, Air Force Materiel Command, and USAF
  Vice Chief of Staff
• Larry Allen, Executive Vice President, Coalition
  for Government Procurement
• Kimberly S. Rupert, Senior Vice President for
  Contracts, Procurement and Pricing, SAIC

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Governance of Chapters

• Task to assess risk and issues related to how
  NCMA structures chapters.
• Options
• Independently incorporated, with affiliation
  agreement.
• Unincorporated entities, doing business in
  states.
• There is risk by having chapters under our
  corporate umbrella.
• Mitigated by policies and training.
• Costs and chilling effect from mandating
  incorporation.

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Financial Report Update
5.5 growth from last year
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Financial analysis

• Concerns
• Advertising revenue dropping.
• CM jobs 25-40
• Print ads 15-20
• Congress registration risk.
• Travel, training spending
• Cash flow tightly restricted.
• Reserves diminished.
• New credit unlikely.

• Mitigating factors
• E-learning failed supplier.
• New product line launches 2/09.
• Sponsorships up.
• gt100 ed partners/corp spons
• Membership strong.
• gt10 increase overall
• Groups growing

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NCMA Logo Redesign

• A 3rd focus groups was conducted after the
  November Board meeting, confirming the three
  overarching themes
• The logo needs to be refreshed and updated
• Members would like an element of the current logo
  to be maintained in the future logo
• We should remove the pentagon from the logo.

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Resolution

• Be it resolved, the National Contract Management
  Association logo, as shown below, is adopted
  effective April 5, 2009.