FutureSight Labs Founder and Chief Movement Officer Seth Mattison will present The Shift: Building Next Generation Enterprises for a Next Generation Workforce on October 20 at the MSCA 2015 Educational Conference (Colorado Springs, CO). Mattison, who is an internationally renowned expert on workforce trends and generational dynamics, will provide deep insights into the make-or-break challenges that prevent leaders from unleashing freedom inside the organization. He will also reveal management models for developing talent and driving innovation across generations as well as a framework to guide your journey into the new world of business with a Millennial-infused workforce.

The management innovation that helped you solve a problem in the office or in the field and propelled your business to the top spot in your market could be an award-winner as well. The E. Robert Kent Award for Management Innovation, one of MCAA's most distinguished honors, brings industry acclaim to great ideas that help our industry grow and thrive. The resulting publicity educates other companies about how the innovation could help them turn around a similar problem. Nominations are now being accepted for the 2015 E. Robert Kent Award. The deadline is October 2.

MCAA is filing comments on President Obama's latest executive order affecting federal contractors (Executive Order 13673). The EO requires procurement agencies and Labor Compliance Advisors to assess the labor and employment law certifications of direct federal prime contractors performing projects over $500,000. Initially, the certification will apply to 14 federal labor employment laws and will later expand to comparable state laws, certifications and records of prime contractors performing contracts above $500,000 that will take effect in 2016. The proposed Federal Acquisition Regulations have also requested input on how agencies should implement a parallel requirement for legal compliance certifications of subcontractors with subcontracts above $500,000 under covered prime contracts. MCAA's view is that to make the EO workable and tenable, the regulations must require the agency contracting officers to assess the legal compliance certifications of both primes and covered subcontractors together and at the time of the project pre-award responsibility determination process. As currently proposed, the new procedures could allow primes to assess subcontractor legal compliance records and delegate that role to lower tier subs of covered sub-subs, thereby raising the potential for inconsistent application of the rules, liability exposure for misapplied rules and post-award renegotiation of other terms and conditions of subcontractors.