Dan Lindner - An Insiders Guide To Working for the Federal Government: Navigating All Levels of Government as a Civil Servant or Contractor

Dan Lindner possesses 40 years of experience in federal acquisition and program management for the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security. He was a long-time contracting officer for the U.S. Navy and is well-versed in federal acquisition policy and procurement regulations. He has chaired review panels and study teams, negotiated contracts for major weapons system components, worked daily with administrative contracting officers, established a remote buying office, and served as a Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization Specialist. As a staff aide to the Assistant Secretary of the Navy, he conducted personal briefings on pending congressional issues affecting defense acquisition and co-authored the Procurement Reform Act of 1986. Dan also established and chaired the Environmental Committee for Defense Acquisition Regulatory (DAR) Council, and was a member of the Cost Principles Committee, gaining expertise with Cost Accounting Standards. He also served as action officer for technical requirements, electronic commerce, and information systems security for a major Defense information system.

Dan also has a lengthy career in the private sector, working closely with technical and acquisition clients to define business needs and product requirements, counseling program managers and contracting officers to develop effective strategies, and helping to develop winning proposals. He also served as vice president for Mindcorp, Inc., a small business which furnished program management support to both federal and commercial clients.

In academia, Dan was an instructor for both the Navy Office of Human Services and Fairfax County (Virginia) Adult Education to develop and teach newly hired employees and acquisition professionals about procurement basics. He has developed and delivered presentations in national conventions and corporate meetings on Contract Administration, Network Security, and Portfolio Management. Dan wrote A Guide to Federal Contracting:Principles and Practices to cover federal contracting across all departments and agencies and A Guide to Defense Contracting: Principles and Practices (both published by Bernan Press) to address contracting with the Department of Defense. He has written numerous monographs on defense acquisition, baseball, information technology, and travel.

Dan has been cited over ten times by Marquis and International Whos Who of America, Information Technology, Science and Engineering, and the World. He earned five Navy Performance Awards and the Director of Defense Procurement Award for Innovation in Procurement. He has earned several professional designations over time, including Certified Professional Contracts Manager, Project Management Professional, Level III Certification under the Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act, Certified Information Systems Manager, and Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control.

Dan earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in both Government and Economics from Lehigh University, and an M.B.A. from George Washington University. He was cited as an Honors Graduate from both schools. He resides with his family in Virginia.

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