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RFPs and RFIs: Do You Know What to Always Include and What Should Never Be Included?
Posted by admin in Continuing Education and Seminar Marketing, ENGINEERING, General on January 16, 2012
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This three-day course on proposal writing is designed for engineers, scientists, project managers and other professionals who design, build, test, buy or sell complex systems. Each topic is illustrated by real-world case studies discussed by experienced system development and acquisition professionals. Key topics are reinforced with small-team exercises. Over two hundred pages of sample Requests for Proposal (RFP) and Requests for Information (RFI) and are provided. Students assess real RFIs and RFPs in class using checklists and templates provided
Since 1984, the Applied Technology Institute (ATI) has provided leading-edge public courses and onsite technical training to DoD and NASA personnel, as well as contractors. Whether you are a busy engineer, a technical expert or a project manager, you can enhance your understanding of complex systems in a short time.
You will become aware of the basic vocabulary essential to interact meaningfully with your colleagues. If you or your team are in need of more technical training, then boost your career with the knowledge needed to provide better, faster, and cheaper solutions for sophisticated DoD and NASA systems.
Why not take a short course? ATI short courses are less than a week long and are designed to help you keep your professional knowledge up-to-date. Our courses provide a practical overview of space and defense technologies which provide a strong foundation for understanding the issues that must be confronted in the use, regulation and development of complex systems.
What You Will Learn From This Course:
- What are Requests for Proposal (RFP)?
- How do they differ from Requests for Information (RFI)?
- How can they help us cost-effectively buy robust systems that meet not only the specification but also meet the needs and expectations of the end users?
- What makes “good” RFIs and RFPs?
- What should always be included and what should never be included in them?
- What is the one item that, if missing from the RFP, will ensure no reputable firm will bid the job?
- What is the one thing that inexperienced RFP writers inadvertently do that guts the competitiveness (only one company will bid) and practically guarantees protests of any contract award?
- What RFP components and features will attract the most qualified bidders?
Course Outline, Samplers, and Notes
BUILDING SOLID REQUESTS FOR PROPOSALS
After taking this course you will be able to write solid RFPs and RFIs and you will know how a well-crafted one is organized, structured, designed and built by an acquisition/procurement enterprise (either government or a contractor).
After attending the course you will receive a full set of detailed notes at the beginning of the class for future reference and can add notes and more detail based on the in-class interaction, as well as a certificate of completion. Please visit our website for more valuable information.
About ATI and the Instructors
Our mission here at ATI is to provide expert training and the highest quality professional development in space, communications, defense, sonar, radar, and signal processing. We are not a one-size-fits-all educational facility. Our short classes include both introductory and advanced courses.
ATI’s instructors are world-class experts who are the best in the business. They are carefully selected for their ability to clearly explain advanced technology.
Mack McKinney, president and founder of a consulting company, has worked in the defense industry since 1975, first as an Air Force officer for eight years, then with Westinghouse Defense and Northrop Grumman for 16 years, then with a SIGINT company in NY for six years. He now teaches, consults and writes Concepts of Operations for Boeing, Sikorsky, Lockheed Martin Skunk Works, Raytheon Missile Systems, Joint Forces Command and all the uniformed services. He has US patents in radar processing and hyperspectral sensing.
Dates and Locations
The dates and locations of this short course are below:
Jan 31-Feb 2, 2012 Virginia Beach, VA
May 1-3, 2012 Virginia Beach, VA
The New Year is almost Here, Are You Resolved to Learn Next Year?
Posted by admin in Continuing Education and Seminar Marketing on December 21, 2011
What Resolutions Have You Made?Whether you are a busy engineer, a technical expert or a project manager, you can enhance your understanding of complex systems in a short time. You will become aware of the basic vocabulary essential to interact meaningfully with your colleagues. If you or your team is in need of more technical training, then boost your career with the knowledge needed to provide better, faster, and cheaper solutions for sophisticated DoD and NASA systems.
Why not take a short course instead? ATI short courses are less than a week long and are designed to help you keep your professional knowledge up-to-date. Our courses provide a practical overview of space and defense technologies which provide a strong foundation for understanding the issues that must be confronted in the use, regulation and development of complex systems.
Course Outline, Samplers, and Notes
Our short courses are designed for individuals involved in planning, designing, building, launching, and operating space and defense systems. Determine for yourself the value of our courses before you sign up. See our samples (See Slide Samples) on some of our courses.
Or check out the new ATI channel on YouTube.
After attending the course you will receive a full set of detailed notes at the beginning of the class for future reference and can add notes and more detail based on the in-class interaction, as well as a certificate of completion. Please visit our website for more valuable information.
About ATI and the Instructors
Our mission here at ATI is to provide expert training and the highest quality professional development in space, communications, defense, sonar, radar, and signal processing. We are not a one-size-fits-all educational facility. Our short classes include both introductory and advanced courses.
ATI’s instructors are world-class experts who are the best in the business. They are carefully selected for their ability to clearly explain advanced technology.
Early Technical Short Courses for 2012 are forming Now! Why Not Give Yourself the Gift of Knowledge?
Posted by admin in Continuing Education and Seminar Marketing on December 19, 2011
Why Not Self-Gift This Year?
Are you or your team ready to face the challenges of 2012 with what you know at the end of 2011? With technology and industries shifting so quickly individuals need to embrace training just to keep up.
Why not give yourself a gift and take a short course?
Our short courses are less than a week long and are designed to help you keep your professional knowledge up-to-date and provide a strong foundation for understanding the issues that must be confronted in the use, regulation and development of complex systems.
For over twenty five years, the Applied Technology Institute (ATI) has provided leading-edge public courses and onsite technical training to DoD and NASA personnel, as well as contractors. Whether you are a busy engineer, a technical expert or a project manager, you can enhance your understanding of complex systems in a short time.
You will also become aware of the basic vocabulary essential to interact meaningfully with your colleagues. If you or your team is in need of more technical training, then boost your career with the knowledge needed to provide better, faster, and cheaper solutions for sophisticated DoD and NASA systems.
These 2012 Courses are Forming Now
PRACTICAL STATISTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING – USING MATLAB
This 4-day course covers signal processing systems for radar, sonar, communications, speech, imaging and other applications based on state-of-the-art computer algorithms. These algorithms include important tasks such as data simulation, parameter estimation, filtering, interpolation, detection, spectral analysis, beamforming, classification, and tracking. Until now these algorithms could only be learned by reading the latest technical journals. This course will take the mystery out of these designs by introducing the algorithms with a minimum of mathematics and illustrating the key ideas via numerous examples using MATLAB.
COMPUTATIONAL ELECTROMAGNETICS
This 3-day course teaches the basics of CEM with application examples. Fundamental concepts in the solution of EM radiation and scattering problems are presented. Emphasis is on applying computational methods to practical applications. You will develop a working knowledge of popular methods such as the FEM, MOM, FDTD, FIT, and TLM including asymptotic and hybrid methods. Students will then be able to identify the most relevant CEM method for various applications, avoid common user pitfalls, understand model validation and correctly interpret results. Students are encouraged to bring their laptop to work examples using the provided FEKO Lite code. You will learn the importance of model development and meshing, post- processing for scientific visualization and presentation of results. Participants will receive a complete set of notes, a copy of FEKO and textbook.
STRAPDOWN AND INTEGRATED NAVIGATION SYSTEMS
In this highly structured 4-day short course – specifically tailored to the needs of busy engineers, scientists, managers, and aerospace professionals – Thomas S. Logsdon will provide you with new insights into the modern guidance, navigation, and control techniques now being perfected at key research centers around the globe. The various topics are illustrated with powerful analogies, full-color sketches, block diagrams, simple one-page derivations highlighting their salient features, and numerical examples that employ inputs from today’s battlefield rockets, orbiting satellites, and deep-space missions. These lessons are carefully laid out to help you design and implement practical performance-optimal missions and test procedures.
Course Outline, Samplers, and Notes
Our short courses are designed for individuals involved in planning, designing, building, launching, and operating space and defense systems. Determine for yourself the value of our other courses before you sign up. See our samples (See Slide Samples) on some of our courses.
Or check out the new ATI channel on YouTube.
After attending the course you will receive a full set of detailed notes at the beginning of the class for future reference and can add notes and more detail based on the in-class interaction, as well as a certificate of completion. Please visit our website for more valuable information.
About ATI and the Instructors
Our mission here at ATI is to provide expert training and the highest quality professional development in space, communications, defense, sonar, radar, and signal processing. We are not a one-size-fits-all educational facility. Our short classes include both introductory and advanced courses.
ATI’s instructors are world-class experts who are the best in the business. They are carefully selected for their ability to clearly explain advanced technology.
Upcoming Titles From SciTech Publishing
Posted by Val in Continuing Education and Seminar Marketing on December 1, 2011
Applied Technology Institute has been partnering with the SciTech Publishing for years. Here is a list of their upcoming titles.
- Integral Equation Methods for Electromagnetics (Volakis & Sertel)
- Expected week of December 5th, 2011
- Introduction to Biomechatronics
- Expected January 2012
Principles of Modern Radar Series Update
Once again, the Community Publishing Project is in full swing! We have all hands on deck to finish Principles of Modern Radar: Advanced Techniques by RadarCon 2012 in May (Atlanta). Every chapter, every section, and the entire manuscript has gone through the same community review process as its predecessor, Principles of Modern Radar: Basic Principles. If you are unaware of our community review process, check out the Publisher Acknowledgements section of the POMR sample we have running on our site.
EMC Series Update
The series continues to grow with new book proposals, contracts and manuscripts. We urge you to get involved with the series as every electrical/electronic engineer must deal with these issues! Here’s what is in the works right now:
- Circuit Modeling for EMC (Ian Darney)
- Additional reviewers needed for draft manuscript.
- Design of Wireless Communication Systems for EMC (Bill Duff)
- Practical EMC Troubleshooting (Pat Andre, Ed Nagauchi)
- Spectrum and Network Measurement, 2nd Edition (Bob Witte)
- Need proposal reviews.
Forthcoming Early 2012
- Pulse Doppler Radar (Clive Alabaster)
- Reference
- MATLAB for Electrical and Computer Engineering (Roland Priemer)
- Text/Reference
- Introduction to Sensors and Actuators (Nathan Ida)
- Text/Reference
Are you Ready to Face the Challenges of Tomorrow with what You Know Today?
Posted by admin in Continuing Education and Seminar Marketing on November 29, 2011
Stop Looking! Start Training!Can You Afford NOT to Train when
Technologies and Industries Change So Rapidly?
Are you or your team ready to face the challenges of tomorrow with what you know today? With technologies and industries shifting so quickly, businesses need to embrace training just to keep up.
Some may complain that training is too expensive or fails to deliver its promise. But what is the real cost of slower sales and lower growth? Maybe you and your organization stop looking for perfect employees and start training them instead?
As Wharton management Professor Peter Cappelli recently wrote in The Wall Street Journal:
“Companies need to stop pinning so much of the blame on our nation’s education system. They need to drop the idea of finding perfect candidates and look for people who could do the job with a bit of training and practice.”
We can help you.
Why not take a short course?
ATI short courses are less than a week long and are designed to help you keep your professional knowledge up-to-date. Our courses provide a practical overview of space and defense technologies which provide a strong foundation for understanding the issues that must be confronted in the use, regulation and development of complex systems.
Since 1984, the Applied Technology Institute (ATI) has provided leading-edge public courses and onsite technical training to DoD and NASA personnel, as well as contractors. Whether you are a busy engineer, a technical expert or a project manager, you can enhance your understanding of complex systems in a short time.
You will become aware of the basic vocabulary essential to interact meaningfully with your colleagues. If you or your team are in need of more technical training, then boost your career with the knowledge needed to provide better, faster, and cheaper solutions for sophisticated DoD and NASA systems.
You will receive a full set of detailed notes at the beginning of the class for future reference and can add notes and more detail based on the in-class interaction, as well as a certificate of completion. Please visit our website for more valuable information.
Course Outline, Samplers, and Notes
Our short courses are designed for individuals involved in planning, designing, building, launching, and operating space and defense systems. Determine for yourself the value of our courses before you sign up. See our samples (See Slide Samples) on some of our courses.
Or check out the new ATI channel on YouTube.
After attending the course you will receive a full set of detailed notes from the class for future reference, as well as a certificate of completion. Please visit our website for more valuable information.
About ATI and the Instructors
Our mission here at ATI is to provide expert training and the highest quality professional development in space, communications, defense, sonar, radar, and signal processing. We are not a one-size-fits-all educational facility. Our short classes include both introductory and advanced courses.
ATI’s instructors are world-class experts who are the best in the business. They are carefully selected for their ability to clearly explain advanced technology.
Dates and Locations
For the times, dates and locations of all of our short courses, please access the links below.
Sincerely,
The ATI Courses Team
P.S. Call today for registration at 410-956-8805 or 888-501-2100 or access our website at ATI Courses. For general questions please email us at ATI@ATIcourses.com
New Jersey Teacher Wins National Award with Help from ATI!
Posted by admin in Continuing Education and Seminar Marketing on November 23, 2011
Nominated by a local Rotary Club, Dougherty was one of top ten finalists left fighting for the prize. Hundreds of teachers from all over the country were nominated for this prestigious honor. Participants, families and friends were then all allowed to vote online for their favorite teachers, just like in American Idol. Each week, after all the votes were tallied, the two teachers with the lowest number of votes were eliminated from the contest.
Jim Jenkins, President of the Applied Technology Institute (ATI), helped support Terry Dougherty for the award by forwarding the announcement of the contest to his instructors and people that he knows in the military. The people responded.
From all over the world, all branches of the services, veteran organizations, service clubs etc., they responded. In what became a weekly ritual, they responded and voted for her. They keep voting, each and every week, until the end, until she won.
The real winners in all of this are of course the children. Dougherty’s husband Tom started the tutoring program three years ago as a way to help children in need. Because military families relocate frequently, their children often suffer at school.
The Seven Seals award is given through the U.S. Department of Defense to a civilian who is working to help military families. The award comes with a $10,000 grant. She will to use the grant money to purchase equipment for a mobile lab. The lab will allow parents stationed overseas participate in school activities.
About ATI
Since 1984, ATI has provided leading-edge public courses and onsite technical training to adult learners. Whether you are a busy engineer, a technical expert or a project manager, you can enhance your understanding of complex systems in a short time. You will become aware of the basic vocabulary essential to interact meaningfully with your colleagues.
What there is to Know Grows Exponentially Every Day
Posted by Markutus in Continuing Education and Seminar Marketing on July 26, 2011
As Thomas Edison observed, “We don’t know one millionth of one percent about anything.” At the rate at which new information is generated today, doesn’t it seem like the gap between what you know and what you need is to know is growing at a dizzying pace?
From submarine sonar to military radar to an orbiting spacecraft, you or your team must face the challenges of tomorrow with what you know today. With the practical knowledge gained from a short course, you can put textbook theories into real-world practice and expand your problem-solving and risk management skills significantly.
Whether you are a busy engineer, a technical expert or a project manager, you can enhance your understanding of these complex systems in a short time. Since 1984, the Applied Technology Institute (ATI) has provided leading-edge public courses and onsite technical training to DoD and NASA personnel, as well as contractors.
Our courses provide a practical overview of space and defense technologies which provide a strong foundation for understanding the issues that must be confronted in the use, regulation and development of complex systems. You will become aware of the basic vocabulary essential to interact meaningfully with your colleagues.
Course Outline, Samplers, and Notes
Our short courses are designed for individuals involved in planning, designing, building, launching, and operating space and defense systems. Determine for yourself the value of our courses before you sign up. See our samples (See Slide Samples) on some of our courses.
Or check out the new ATI channel on YouTube.
After attending the course you will receive a full set of detailed notes from the class for future reference, as well as a certificate of completion. Please visit our website for more valuable information.
New Wireless Receiver Design Text/Reference by SciTech Publishing
Posted by Val in Continuing Education and Seminar Marketing, Defense, Including Radar, Missiles and EW, ENGINEERING on June 29, 2011
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There are books, and then there are BOOKS. In mid-August, SciTech will be releasing the 2nd Edition of Radio Receiver Design by Kevin McClaning. The book has undergone such an extensive transformation from the first edition (1998) we decided that a title change was needed as well. To mark this happy occasion, we’re offering you an additional 10% pre- publication discount on Wireless Receiver Design for Digital Communications, 2nd Edition and related titles. See below the book descriptions for the Coupon Code.
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 Wireless Receiver Design for Digital Communications, 2nd Edition PRACTICAL lessons from decades of experience “at the bench.” This book is a virtual replacement for a mentor who teaches basic concepts and who has the war stories to help you avoid the mistakes of the past. The fundamentals of RF engineering lead you into applying this knowledge in the design of real world systems. When you use the EXPLORE button on the title page on our site, you’ll not only get to see an entire useful chapter, but you can see some of the War Stories from the book as well.
AND…with an extensive problem set and myriad examples, this is an excellent textbook for seniors or first-year graduate students. If you are an instructor and have a legitimate need to review this book, you can either review the PDF file for free, or purchase a copy for 50% off. If you indeed adopt the book for your course, we will credit your purchase or send another desk copy. Please completely fill out the Review Copy Request form online to get started.
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 Microwave and RF Design: A Systems ApproachOur top-selling Microwave & RF book is equally loved in industry and academia. With a focus on designing for systems, it not only prepares students for meeting industry standards, but keeps practicing engineers in the know with in-depth analysis of modern components and subsystems.
Design is emphasized throughout the book through exercises and examples. Much of design is open-ended with problem specific design decisions, and many topics are introduced through detailed design derivations. For example, Chapter 13 on network synthesis is based entirely on four worked designs. Instructors teaching relevant courses can also request a review copy of this book as well.
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 Transceiver and System Design for Digital Communications, 3rd Edition This book is an intuitive approach to transceiver design for a broad spectrum of readers. It covers a wide range of data link communication design techniques, including link budgets, dynamic range and systems analysis of receivers and transmitters, digital modulation and demodulation, multipath, gain control, jamming reduction, and much more. It is an excellent reference for understanding concepts in wireless, data link, and digital communication techniques for both the commercial and military sectors.
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Does Boosting Your Skills in a Short Time Work for You?
Posted by admin in Continuing Education and Seminar Marketing on June 17, 2011
Question: By the way, when was the last time you updated your current skills or learned new ones?
Answer: It could be as easy as taking a short course or two to stay updated in your current field.
How many of the following situations apply to you:
• Don’t have the time for a full semester college course?
• Is the nearest class clear across town at rush hour?
• Do your educational needs run more toward “Advanced Topics in Digital Signal Processing” instead of “Introduction to Business”?
• Do you count decibels (dBs) more often than dollars ($)?
• Is the radar equation more familiar to you than one for amortized interest rates?
• You think satellites are sexy, not Lady Gaga?
If one or more of situations apply to you, why not take a short course instead?
Since 1984, the Applied Technology Institute (ATI) has provided leading-edge public courses and onsite technical training to DoD and NASA personnel, as well as contractors. Whether you are a busy engineer, a technical expert or a project manager, you can enhance your understanding of complex systems in a short time. You will become aware of the basic vocabulary essential to interact meaningfully with your colleagues.
ATI short courses are less than a week long and are designed to help you keep your professional knowledge up-to-date. Our courses provide a practical overview of space and defense technologies which provide a strong foundation for understanding the issues that must be confronted in the use, regulation and development of complex systems.
Course Outline, Samplers, and Notes
After attending the course you will receive a full set of detailed notes from the class for future reference, as well as a certificate of completion. Please visit our website for more valuable information.
Our short courses are designed for individuals involved in planning, designing, building, launching, and operating space and defense systems. Determine for yourself the value of our courses before you sign up. See our samples (See Slide Samples) on some of our courses.
Or check out the new ATI channel on YouTube.
About ATI and the Instructors
Our mission here at ATI is to provide expert training and the highest quality professional development in space, communications, defense, sonar, radar, and signal processing. We are not a one-size-fits-all educational facility. Our short classes include both introductory and advanced courses.
ATI’s instructors are world-class experts who are the best in the business. They are carefully selected for their ability to clearly explain advanced technology.
Are Your Soft Skills Hard on Your Career?
Posted by admin in Continuing Education and Seminar Marketing, Systems Engineering & Project Management on June 16, 2011
Even He Can't Do It Alone
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“Soft Skills” May Help You Get or Keep a Job
In a 2008 survey of more than 2,000 businesses in the state of Washington, employers said entry-level workers in a variety of professions were lacking in several areas, including problem solving, conflict resolution and critical observation.
You’ll likely see these “soft skills” in job descriptions, after demands for technical qualifications. Employment experts agree that tech skills may get you an interview, but these soft skills will get you the job and keep it.
Since 1984, ATI has provided leading-edge public courses and onsite technical training to DoD and NASA personnel, as well as contractors. Some of our courses cover these “soft skills” as well.
One of these “soft skills” is teamwork. Forming and leading teams is critical to becoming a successful leader. Successful leaders learn good team formation skills teamwork is a keystone of effective projects. Some of our teamwork related courses are summarized below.
ATI PROJECT DOMINANCE COURSE
This two-day course is designed for engineers, scientists and managers who work in the projects domain on complex systems. Students will learn how to build a cancellation-resistant project, how to form and lead a world-class project team and how to lead the entire effort to a successful conclusion. Cross-discipline and inter-generational techniques are taught and key topics are reinforced with small-team exercises. Attendees are given the Meyers-Briggs© assessment – many discover mismatches in temperament and assignment. All learn how to be much more effective on Project Teams.
ATI’S PROJECT MANAGEMENT OVERVIEW AND LEADERSHIP COURSE
This class is an introductory class to the Project Management discipline. It includes the basics of Project Management as well as Leadership as it pertains to Project Management. This course is intended for project managers and team leaders who need a good foundation for further study in Project Management. There are no prerequisites for this course.
ATI’S FUNDAMENTALS OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT COURSE
Today’s complex systems present difficult challenges to develop. From military systems to aircraft to environmental and electronic control systems, development teams must face the challenges with an arsenal of proven methods. Individual systems are more complex, and systems operate in much closer relationship, requiring a system-of-systems approach to the overall design.
This three-day workshop presents the fundamentals of project management approach to solving complex problems.
What you will learn:
• How to prepare a sound plan for your project and maximize your probability of success
• How to achieve Buy-In from the people who will perform the work on the project
• How to deal with conflict and also to use it to the advantage of your project
• Techniques for monitoring and controlling the outcome of your project
• Effective approaches to managing multiple projects
Course Outline, Samplers, and Notes
Determine for yourself the value of our courses before you sign up. See our samples (See Slide Samples) on some of our courses.
Or check out the new ATI channel on YouTube.
After attending the course you will receive a full set of detailed notes from the class for future reference, as well as a certificate of completion. Please visit our website for more valuable information.
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