Picture this: You’re a large government contractor, tasked with keeping your team on the same page — that includes employees, at offsite facilities. So, you send out lots of emails. And you post policy updates to your intranet site. Then comes the nagging question: How do you know your employees are even reading what you post? [...]
With the change in administration and push toward insourcing, every contract executive’s job just got a little tougher. Challenges abound: Faster turnaround time for proposals, tightening federal budgets, new compliance guidelines, plus increasing competition for talent and bids. Add to the mix contentious debate over the definition of “inherently governmental services” — a conundrum exacerbated [...]
Joe Kopfman is vice president of contracts and administration for AMERICAN SYSTEMS. Here’s his take on the current contracts environment: ExecutiveBiz: Lots going on at AMERICAN SYSTEMS these days. What’s next on the compliance front? Joe Kopfman: A roll-out process is now underway; we will add a new community — an ethics community — to [...]
Joe Kopfman has been with AMERICAN SYSTEMS almost from the start. If you ask him, he’ll tell you it’s not like working for the same company, rather an ever-evolving one. Since his start, Kopfman has seen AMERICAN SYSTEMS grow from $2 million in annual revenue to over $200 million. Recently Kopfman took a look back [...]
