According to the article "The State of Risk Oversight: An Overview of Enterprise Risk Management Practices", executives believe risk volumes and complexities are at their highest level in 12 years. This small business development training will educate the businesses within the community unfamiliar with the topic of risk and identify ways to mitigate risk from the prospective of the procurement decision maker (PDM) also known as the buyer. You will learn about what risk means for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), ways VA manages risk, how a business can mitigate risk to the buyer, and resources to use to help identify internal and external risks for the business.