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Navigate the complexities of intellectual property in Intellectual Property and AI, the eighth course in the BuyAI learning program. Learn the foundations of IP in AI acquisitions, explore ownership versus licensing decisions, and balance innovation with vendor independence. Gain practical insights to identify and address intellectual property considerations in AI acquisition projects.
Dive into the transformative world of artificial intelligence with Artificial Intelligence Exposure, the first course in the 12-part BuyAI learning program.
This course introduces federal acquisition professionals to the urgency and impact of the AI Revolution, the importance of AI acquisition literacy, and the adoption dilemmas that come with emerging technologies.
Learners will also explore strategies for building trust in AI systems and discover the seven traits of the AI Acquisition Hero.
Equip yourself with the foundational knowledge to navigate and lead in an AI-driven acquisition environment.
Explore the inner workings of artificial intelligence in Basics of AI – What's Under the Hood, the second course in the BuyAI learning program.
This course provides federal acquisition professionals with a clear understanding of the science behind AI, the key technological features of AI systems, and how acquisition decisions can directly influence AI projects.
Build the knowledge to make informed, strategic choices in AI-enabled environments.
Gain insight into the AI marketplace with The AI Market, the third course in the BuyAI learning program. Learn to identify key players, understand their values and needs, and apply both strategic Market Intelligence and tactical Market Research. Explore effective approaches to promote competition and attract new market entrants, equipping federal acquisition professionals to make informed decisions in a rapidly evolving AI landscape.
Build the foundation for successful AI projects in AI Acquisition Team Dynamics and Planning, the fourth course in the BuyAI learning program. Learn to craft and communicate a clear AI project vision, create balanced acquisition teams, and convey plans effectively using the Lean Canvas. Explore the components of a Simplified Acquisition Management Plan (SAMP) and apply agile acquisition principles to drive AI project success.
Unlock the power of data in Data for Acquisition Professionals, the fifth course in the BuyAI learning program. Learn the fundamentals of AI and data, explore the data lifecycle, and understand ethical and legal requirements. Gain practical insights into developing a data strategy to support effective acquisition planning and decision-making in AI-driven projects.
Explore the technology powering AI in AI Storage and Compute for Acquisition Professionals, the sixth course in the BuyAI learning program. Learn about compute hardware, cloud, on-prem, and edge storage options, and the different types of cloud services. Gain practical skills to develop a compute and storage strategy that supports your AI acquisition planning and decision-making.
Strengthen your understanding of AI security in Security and AI Delivery, the seventh course in the BuyAI learning program. Learn to identify key adversarial AI threats, navigate FedRAMP and ATO processes, and address supply chain risks. Explore the critical role of acquisition teams in managing security challenges and develop strategies to integrate AI Security Risk Management into your Acquisition Plan.
Navigate the complexities of intellectual property in Intellectual Property and AI, the eighth course in the BuyAI learning program. Learn the foundations of IP in AI acquisitions, explore ownership versus licensing decisions, and balance innovation with vendor independence. Gain practical insights to identify and address intellectual property considerations in AI acquisition projects.
Promote ethical and responsible AI in Responsible Use of AI, the ninth course in the BuyAI learning program. Learn key principles of responsible AI, understand the acquisition team’s evolving role, and assess risks based on context and classification. Gain practical skills to apply risk mitigation techniques throughout the acquisition and contracting process, ensuring AI deployments align with mission and ethical standards.
Ensure AI delivers on its mission in Testing and Evaluating AI for Mission Success, the tenth course in the BuyAI learning program. Learn AI testing and evaluation protocols, set clear delivery expectations, and engage stakeholders to facilitate adoption. Gain strategies for lifecycle management and ongoing evaluation to maximize the effectiveness and reliability of AI systems post-delivery.
Master AI contracting in Successful AI Within the Contracts 4 Corners, the eleventh course in the BuyAI learning program. Learn the essential tools, tactics, and terms of AI contracting, equipping federal acquisition professionals to structure agreements that support successful AI deployments while managing risk and fostering innovation.
Explore the transformative role of AI in AI's Impact on the Acquisition Workforce, the final course in the BuyAI learning program. Understand how AI will shape the acquisition workforce, discover real use cases for improving processes and efficiency, and learn strategies to continue building AI acquisition literacy, expanding your knowledge, skills, and proficiency for the future.
Navigate the ethical waters of government contracting in this video-driven course built around a Jaws-inspired storyline.
Follow a coastal contracting office under siege by LAWS — legal violations threatening mission integrity.
The course builds the knowledge to recognize, prevent, and respond to the ethics pitfalls that put contracting operations at risk.
Learn how strong ethics practices protect not just your agency, but the trust, fairness, and accountability the acquisition system depends on.
Leave this course equipped to identify ethical red flags, apply the standards that keep contracting clean, and become the kind of professional who swims toward the problem and not away from it.
Spend a beautiful day in the neighborhood with Mr. Roberts, a Contracting Officer (CO) who thinks a post-award debrief should feel less like a legal deposition and more like a conversation.
This video-driven course opens on a number that should bother every CO:
Of 1,658 protests filed in FY2022, only 59 were sustained.
That 13% gap isn't really a legal problem, it's a communication one.
Because the government keeps making defensible award decisions and then explaining them so thinly that industry protests instead of believing them.
Built around four rules of relational debriefing, the course reframes FAR 15.301, Postaward debriefing of offerors, from a box to check into a relationship to build.
It shows the daylight between a traditional debrief written to defend the government's position and a relational one held to actually help the offeror who lost.
Follow Mr. Roberts as he:
Leave equipped to:
Sit down at the table, keep both hands where everyone can see them.
Let a wise contracting mentor known as the Farfather walk you through what to do when contractor performance starts to slip, in this video-driven course on managing bad contractor performance.
Built around the family of FAR clauses that protect taxpayer dollars, the course follows a young learner named Michael through every tool a COR or CO needs:
Learn:
Leave equipped to:
All while keeping:
Master the Lowest Price Technically Acceptable (LPTA) source selection process and build the skills to apply it with confidence across federal contracting scenarios.
This course unpacks the regulatory framework governing LPTA.
It walks through the specific conditions that make it an appropriate — and inappropriate — source selection approach, and examines the evaluation criteria and documentation requirements that keep awards defensible.
Learners will also explore the most common pitfalls that lead to protest vulnerability and compliance risk, and develop practical strategies to avoid them.
Leave this course equipped to make LPTA decisions that are well-reasoned, regulation-backed, and built to hold up to scrutiny.
Navigate the complexities of federal acquisition requirements with confidence!
This comprehensive course demystifies the three essential work statement types that drive successful government contracting:
Whether you're a contracting professional, program manager, or acquisition specialist, this course will equip you with the knowledge to choose the right tool for the job and avoid costly pitfalls that can derail your procurement.
Get back to the core principles in this conversational, no-frills primer on the foundations of federal contracting.
Follow along with Will, Alex, and Miss Loretta from a one-room schoolhouse on the edge of a Wild West tour attraction.
They unpack what a contract actually is, how one forms, and why a government contract exists for an entirely different customer than its commercial cousin.
Trace federal procurement back to Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution.
Walk the constitutional relay race that puts Contracting Officers (CO) at the intersection of all three branches of government.
See how the Revolutionary FAR Overhaul (RFO) reorganized the rulebook around the acquisition lifecycle.
Move through pre-award, award, and post-award to understand where mission success actually happens.
Leave this course equipped to:
Discover why so many technically compliant procurements fail the people who matter most — the end users who never appear in the contract file but determine whether your procurement succeeds or collects dust.
This course equips acquisition professionals with structured methods for seeing end users throughout the entire acquisition lifecycle.
It covers pre-solicitation user research and the "Deeper Why" framework, adoption-focused evaluation criteria, and sustainable post-award feedback mechanisms.
Learn to conduct user needs assessments that uncover what people actually need (not just what they say they want), design evaluation criteria that predict real-world adoption, and implement performance management that measures mission value — not just technical compliance.
Leave this course ready to ask the uncomfortable questions, spot the disconnect between requirements on paper and reality in practice, and deliver procurements that make government work better for the workforce and the taxpayers they serve.
Build the tools, judgment, and confidence needed to determine, document, and defend fair and reasonable pricing decisions.
This course blends regulatory precision with real-world scenarios, GAO case lessons, and practical tips — going beyond compliance checklists to build genuine pricing expertise.
Explore the FAR framework, practice applying price analysis techniques, and learn to recognize common pitfalls like price realism missteps and unbalanced bids.
Strengthen documentation skills to stay audit-ready.
Develop both the "science" of FAR requirements and the "art" of sound business judgment.
Leave this course equipped to tackle complex pricing challenges with confidence — and the practical skills to back every decision.
Design evaluation frameworks that hold up — in competition, in source selection, and in a protest.
This course equips federal acquisition professionals with the knowledge and practical skills to build solicitation evaluation strategies that ensure fair competition, support sound source selection decisions, and achieve best value for the government.
Learn to align submission requirements, evaluation factors, and evaluation methodology into a unified system.
Recognize the misalignments that trigger procurement failures before they happen.
Leave this course ready to construct evaluation frameworks that are legally defensible, strategically sound, and built to survive scrutiny.
Take a seat in the chair and let a suspiciously enthusiastic barber walk you through one of fiscal law's most misunderstood concepts in this video-driven course on severable and non-severable services.
Built around the Bona Fide Needs Rule, this course untangles why the difference between a recurring service and a single unified undertaking matters enormously.
This matters especially when the fiscal year clock is ticking and your agency is sitting on a pile of late-arriving funds.
Follow the logic from basic appropriations principles through real-world examples.
Learn why cutting some contracts in half leaves value on the table, while others fall apart entirely without that final culminating event.
Leave this course equipped to classify your contracted services correctly, apply the one-year exception for severable services spanning fiscal years, and tell the kind of story that keeps your awards clean, compliant, and — unlike some barbers — not a crime scene.
Cut through the confusion around Commercial Solutions Openings (CSO) in this conversational, no-frills course built around a plain-English breakdown of one of DoW's most misunderstood acquisition tools.
Follow along as Will and Scott untangle what a CSO actually is, and isn't.
They trace its origins from the government's Cold War dominance over industry innovation to today's reality where the private sector is calling the shots.
Learn how the CSO bridges the gap between a Broad Agency Announcement's (BAA) research-and-development roots and the commercial marketplace's cutting edge.
It may be your best bet for reaching the non-traditional vendors and startups your agency actually needs.
Leave this course equipped to:
Demystify one of federal acquisition's most flexible — and most misunderstood — tools in the world of Other Transaction Authority.
This course traces the statutory foundations of OTA authority from Congressional grant to agency application.
It walks acquisition professionals through what OTAs are, why they exist, and how they differ from FAR-based contracts, grants, and cooperative agreements.
Build the skills to structure an OT effectively — from competition and funding to price reasonableness, format, and terms — and learn how to apply each consideration with the judgment and flexibility OTAs demand.
The course also puts the OTA mindset front and center, connecting statutory knowledge to the leadership, soft skills, and cross-functional collaboration required to make OTAs work in practice.
Leave this course equipped to serve as a capable Agreements Officer.
You will be ready to engage nontraditional partners, drive mission innovation, and use OTA authority responsibly, without turning it into the bureaucracy it was designed to replace.
Sink your teeth into agile contracting in this video-driven course built around a vampire-inspired storyline.
Follow Countracula, a centuries-old creature of the night whose legacy acquisition processes have left him hungry for results.
The course builds the knowledge to modernize how your team buys digital services.
Learn how iterative, user-centered approaches replace the overprescriptive ways of the old world.
Focusing on end-user needs, empowered product owners, and working software beats a bloated statement of work every time.
Leave this course equipped to craft a compelling product vision, build and prioritize a backlog, write meaningful acceptance criteria, and run sprints that deliver real value before your vampire quota drops any lower.
Put down the seven-pump caramel Frappuccino and step away from the Statement of Work (SOW).
In this video-driven course built around a husband's catastrophic food run, it reveals one of digital services contracting's most powerful but underused tools: the Statement of Objectives (SOO).
Follow Will as he commits every requirement-owner sin in the book, from boxing his End User into a predetermined solution to writing a SOW so specific it still misses the point entirely.
Learn how a simple shift in approach could have gotten Sarah what she really wanted — and gotten your program office a solution that actually works.
Learn why chasing symptoms instead of causes leads to over-specified, under-informed solicitations.
Focusing on problem statements, user objectives, and constraints opens the door to competition that surfaces solutions you never would have prescribed yourself.
Leave this course equipped to draft a lean, effective SOO, give offerors the right constraints without over-directing their proposals, and evaluate responses with confidence.
So your next acquisition ends with the contracting equivalent of the Mumbles coming over to a happy household.
Two hosts, one new pathway, and a running argument over whether it's pronounced "swoop" or "swap."
This video-based course explains the Software Acquisition Pathway (DoDI 5000.87), the lane the DoD built in 2020 to buy and build software before the technology it's chasing goes obsolete.
It starts with the distinction most contracting talk skips:
From there it shows why the old milestone process — the infamous spaghetti chart with its JCIDS boards and milestones A through C — can't field AI at the speed AI actually moves.
The hosts keep it plain.
Planning is meant to be short, so you:
You'll see how a Commercial Solutions Opening and an Other Transaction fit together to prototype, produce, and sustain.
And why good AI never reaches a finish line: a model that stops learning starts dying.
By the end, you'll be able to:
Explore the regulatory foundation, tactical guidance, and practical tools behind the Revolutionary FAR Overhaul's (RFO) Guiding Principle #3, Maximize Buying Commercial Products and Services, as part of our FAR Guiding Principles training series.
This course traces the statutory history of commercial buying through the RFO's commercial-first reorientation of the acquisition framework.
[It walks] acquisition professionals through the specific changes to FAR Parts 1, 7, 10, 11, 12, and 13 and what each change means in practice.
Build the skills to make defensible commerciality determinations, navigate the now-clear relationship between Parts 12 and 13, structure solicitations that invite commercial competition, and execute from planning through award using the full range of flexibilities the RFO provides.
The course also puts the RFO's companion resources to work:
These connect regulatory knowledge to on-the-job execution.
Leave this course equipped to execute commercial acquisitions that are faster, more competitive, and built the way the RFO intended.
Explore the regulatory foundation, tactical guidance, and practical tools behind the Revolutionary FAR Overhaul's (RFO) Guiding Principle #5, Promote Competition and Fair Opportunity — part of our FAR Guiding Principles training series.
This course traces the history of competition law from the Competition in Contracting Act of 1984 through the RFO's rebuilt framework.
You'll walk through the specific changes to FAR Parts 6, 8, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, and 19 and what each change means in practice.
Build the skills to structure competition strategies across the full acquisition spectrum — from full and open competition to sole source — and apply fair opportunity procedures that are both legally compliant and genuinely competitive.
The course also puts the RFO's companion resources to work, including the FAR Companion Guide and Practitioner Albums, connecting regulatory knowledge to on-the-job execution.
Leave this course equipped to make competition decisions that are faster, more defensible, and built the way the RFO intended.
Navigate the most significant transformation to federal acquisition in decades — the Revolutionary FAR Overhaul (RFO) — and emerge equipped to thrive in the post-RFO environment.
This course cuts through the confusion surrounding the RFO to deliver practical guidance on what has changed, why it matters, and how to apply these changes in your daily work.
Discover how the RFO shifts the acquisition workforce from compliance-driven rule-followers to empowered business advisors.
Explore the Strategic Acquisition Guidance (SAG) ecosystem, the RFO's new guiding principles, and restructured ordering procedures.
Build confidence in exercising the professional discretion the RFO was designed to grant — whether you're a Contracting Officer transitioning from the old FAR framework or a practitioner ready to lead the way forward.
Unpack the regulatory foundation, tactical guidance, and practical tools behind the Revolutionary FAR Overhaul's (RFO) Guiding Principle #2, Ensure the Most Effective Use of Taxpayer Dollars, as part of our FAR Guiding Principles training series.
This course traces the history and legislative foundation of the Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) program, Governmentwide Acquisition Contracts (GWACs), and Best-in-Class (BIC) contract vehicles.
It walks acquisition professionals through the specific changes to FAR Parts 8, 16, 38, and 51 — and what each change means in practice.
Build the skills to identify when existing contract sources are required, when discretion applies, and how to apply sound business judgment to match your requirement to the right vehicle.
The course also puts the RFO's companion resources to work:
These connect regulatory knowledge to on-the-job execution.
Leave this course equipped to navigate the new contract source hierarchy faster, more confidently, and built the way the RFO intended.
Follow a Contracting Officer through one long night with three ghosts.
This video-based course uses a Christmas Carol structure to teach five tenets of employee experience:
The ghosts show the Contracting Officer what happens when an office treats every idea as a distraction and every employee as replaceable.
It loses both, once the paperwork outweighs the mission it's supposed to serve.
The story starts at a break room fire and moves through a boardroom pitching "agile, innovation, scale."
Along the way you see two kinds of departures: the employee who leaves quietly after years of being unheard, and the one who might have stayed if someone had just asked "tell me more."
By the end, you'll be able to:
Master the foundational knowledge, regulatory requirements, and practical skills behind one of the most critical roles in federal acquisition — the Contracting Officer Representative (COR).
Whether you've just received your designation or are exploring what the role entails, this course breaks down COR responsibilities with clarity and real-world insight.
It walks you through everything from your initial appointment to contract closeout.
Gain the regulatory grounding to understand your authority and its limits, the surveillance skills to monitor contractor performance effectively, and the judgment to recognize and respond when things go wrong.
Leave this course ready to step into your COR role with confidence — and with a clear understanding of why it matters.