CBDA Dinner & Networking at Army Navy Country Club

CBDA’s in-person dinner is a bimonthly govcon business-development night at Army Navy Country Club—BD leads sharing opportunities, teaming ideas, and industry intelligence over drinks and dinner. The August 20 meeting runs 5:00–9:00 PM with bar “pre-game” networking from 5:00; early-bird admission is listed at $99 per person and non-refundable. The association’s origin story is informal NDA dinners among competitors-turned-collaborators that outgrew restaurants and settled into ANCC.

For Circuit Washington, federal contracting is the metro’s distinctive professional gravity. Diaspora-owned small businesses and mid-tier integrators often live or die on teaming intros that never appear on a public Meetup. CBDA is explicitly that BD peer room—not a consumer tech happy hour and not a classified summit. Same calendar day as DCSTW’s summer rooftop; choose govcon dinner density vs. startup-ecosystem social.

Thursday, August 20, 2026, 5:00–9:00 PM at Army Navy Country Club, 1700 Army Navy Drive, Arlington. Register through the CBDA Gravity Forms page and confirm club dress/access rules in the receipt. ANCC parking and gate timing are club-specific—do not wing it from Crystal City without a buffer.

This dinner is right if you are a govcon BD professional, small-business capture lead, or teaming partner who already speaks NAICS and past performance. A free rooftop founder social, a life-science speed round, and a chamber black-tie gala are different rooms. Bring opportunities you can share under the room’s trust norms; leave cold spam lists.