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WT 360: The market from all angles

Nick Wakeman, Ross Wilkers

WT 360 is where the conversation takes place on what’s driving the federal government market now and where the sector is going. Editor-In-Chief Nick Wakeman and Senior Staff Reporter Ross Wilkers look at the market from all angles through interviews with industry executives and informed observers of the sector.

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00:37:01

An initial glimpse at 2024's GovCon budget and policy...

WT 360: The market from all angles ·

2023/12/13

An unusual set of circumstances looms over the entire public sector landscape with two sets of federal funding slated to run out on different dates in early 2024.What those deadlines mean for government contractors is the starting point for this episode featuring David Berteau, CEO of the Professional Services Council, one of the main trade associations representing the GovCon industry.A second major signpost on GovCon's roadmap for 2024 is the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification, the

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00:33:40

ASRC Federal's vision highlighted by supply chain,...

WT 360: The market from all angles ·

2023/12/06

A great amount of planning went into ASRC Federal's acquisitions of a supply chain and logistics business from Science Applications International Corp. and Broadleaf, an IT services firm. The transactions closed within two weeks of one another.What led ASRC Federal to those two businesses and where does it want to go next? In this episode, ASRC Federal's chief executive Jennifer Felix describes the strategy and market-wide trends behind both of those moves.In speaking with our Ross Wilkers, Felix

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00:19:44

A roadmap to knowing the customer's buyer profile

WT 360: The market from all angles ·

2023/11/27

Price and cost will always be a factor for U.S. government agencies in deciding who to choose for a contract, but not all of them just go with the lowest-bidding company for an award.How the government buyer goes about its purchasing is of equal importance to knowing what the customer is asking for, as explained in this episode featuring FedSavvy Strategies' founder and managing principal Brian Lindholm.In speaking with our Ross Wilkers, Lindholm goes over the work that business development teams

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00:31:52

All about AE Industrial Partners and its GovCon...

WT 360: The market from all angles ·

2023/11/15

Aerospace, defense, government services and space represent four key focus areas for the private investment firm AE Industrial Partners and also cover practically all of the government market.Our guest for this episode in Kirk Konert, a partner at AEI, joined the firm at around the time it started to further scale out its investments in the mid-2010s.Konert describes to our Ross Wilkers how that approach has evolved, why AEI focuses much of its portfolio on companies that are founder-led and what

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00:33:32

How artificial intelligence can help make better...

WT 360: The market from all angles ·

2023/11/08

Generative artificial intelligence is all the rage everywhere and those tools are being applied in multiple ways across the market, including in the proposal writing process.But even with AI's promise, its effectiveness depends on the person using the tool. Which makes AI just like any other tool we have, in that it often comes down to knowing the right questions to ask.This episode goes over many of those questions with the help of Bruce Feldman, a former senior vice president from Science

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00:40:58

All about how OTA contracts really work

WT 360: The market from all angles ·

2023/10/23

Other Transaction Authority contracts have existed for many decades as alternative means for federal agencies to quickly bring in new technologies and systems when the usual acquisition processes will just not cut it.But the focus on speed puts artificial limits on the promise and potential of what OTAs can do when used correctly, as NSTXL’s founder and chief executive Tim Greeff tells our Ross Wilkers in this episode.Greeff leads NSTXL in its mission to manage consortia that work with agencies when

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00:34:47

Budget disconnects and opportunities define today's...

WT 360: The market from all angles ·

2023/10/10

The prospect of a government shutdown is far from the only budgetary headwind that agencies and contractors alike have to navigate, but it is the one that causes more anxiety than any other.Funding delays and protracted procurement cycles are also facts of life in the market that are the starting point for this episode featuring John Caucis and James Wichert, public sector analysts at the market intelligence firm Technology Business Research.Caucis and Wichert take our Ross Wilkers through how in

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00:33:11

RTX Ventures casts its net wide and far across an...

WT 360: The market from all angles ·

2023/09/18

More startup tech companies and investors are looking to enter the defense industrial base, which RTX is one of the largest members of and pushing to expand through its venture capital arm.How this blue chip aerospace-and-defense hardware giant is taking on the role of business and technology scouting hat is the focus of this episode featuring Dan Ateya, president and managing director of RTX Ventures.The former Raytheon Co. was a player in the venture game before its merger with United Technologies

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00:25:42

For Lockheed's ventures team, its investments are...

WT 360: The market from all angles ·

2023/09/05

The world's largest defense company also takes on the role of scout through its venture capital organization, which searches for technologies and businesses whose creations are of promise to customers and the industry.But those investments are just the first step in what Lockheed Martin and those companies are looking to achieve together as explained in this episode by Chris Moran, executive director and general manager of Lockheed Martin Ventures.What happens after the capital is committed from the

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00:20:50

All about Amentum's tech strategy and 2 key legs of it

WT 360: The market from all angles ·

2023/08/28

Amentum's identity as an engineering and technical services provider naturally places the company at the front end of many large-scale efforts by government customers to incorporate new technologies.Where the federal government's second-largest services provider is concentrating its time and resources in technology is the focus of this episode featuring Jill Bruning -- president of Amentum's engineering science and technology group.Bruning explains to our Ross Wilkers that much of Amentum's tech

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00:28:54

People are at the center of all cyber talk

WT 360: The market from all angles ·

2023/08/21

Cybersecurity started to evolve into an enabling technology area more than a decade ago, which means today it is in the core of what government technology companies do for federal agencies.Dr. Sarbari Gupta founded Electrosoft in 2001 to focus on helping agencies with their own postures in cyber, the evolution of which she describes in this episode that also goes over what the government is asking of industry in today's cyber landscape.Gupta explains to our Ross Wilkers how companies such as hers

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00:32:24

IBM's blueprint for making a bigger impact across...

WT 360: The market from all angles ·

2023/08/07

IBM showed its prioritization of public sector and federal markets through its $1.2 billion acquisition of Octo Consulting, which closed in the spring and is the largest such transaction in the history of Big Blue's consulting business.This episode features an update on the integration and where that combination fits into IBM's larger, global vision for itself. The guests are Susan Wedge, managing partner for the U.S. public and federal market at IBM Consulting; and Mark Johnson, vice president of

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00:23:52

What 2023's economy means for GovCon

WT 360: The market from all angles ·

2023/07/26

Some truth exists in the often-repeated statement that the government market has some resilience to pressures from the global economy, but companies do still have to deal with them.How contractors are navigating a world of inflation and higher interest rates is the launch pad of this episode featuring Ruth Ann Clark, managing director for aerospace, defense and government services at JPMorgan Chase Commercial Banking; and Don Irwin, managing director and banker team leader at J.P. Morgan Private

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00:27:16

All about Empower AI's shift to solutions

WT 360: The market from all angles ·

2023/07/19

With a new majority owner and chief executive in place, Empower AI is embarking on a new approach in its push to be a leading provider of artificial intelligence tools in the federal landscape.The path Empower AI has mapped out for itself is the focus of this episode featuring Jeff Bohling, who was named chief executive in February as the global investor KKR took majority ownership of the company.Empower AI is starting to talk about itself more as a solutions-oriented business versus one focused on

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00:36:03

Deloitte's view of how tech implementation,...

WT 360: The market from all angles ·

2023/07/13

Deloitte's identity as a global professional services firm means it looks to be more than just a provider of advisory support for its clients and particularly with federal agencies.Jason Salzetti, who leads Deloitte's government and public services practice, explains in this episode how that 26,000-employee team is working with its federal clients today on navigating the increasing speeds and rates of change with technology and how they operate.A big component of that approach means Deloitte looks

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00:35:55

BAE sees teaming as foundational to its success

WT 360: The market from all angles ·

2023/07/10

BAE Systems' U.S. subsidiary has made working well with others across the government and commercial technology landscapes a core part of its strategy and story to tell as a federal systems integrator.Peder Jungck, vice president and general manager for intelligence solutions at BAE Systems Inc.'s intelligence and security segment, knows both of those worlds well given he was chief executive of a cybersecurity company that became a government contractor in the early 2000s.As Jungck explains in this

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00:27:58

The tech and investment threads of Noblis 'Vision 2030'

WT 360: The market from all angles ·

2023/06/14

Noblis' goal is to be at the intersections of research, science and technology for federal agencies as they think beyond just adopting "what's next."For this episode, Noblis' chief executive Mile Corrigan explains how company No. 76 on our 2023 Top 100 is carrying out the seven-year blueprint for itself that the team calls "Vision 2030."Vision 2030 at its core is all about aligning everything inside Noblis to those common goals, including its many teams of employees and how Noblis recruits the

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00:28:14

WT 360's Info Session dissects the 2023 Top 100

WT 360: The market from all angles ·

2023/06/08

Edition number 30 of the Washington Technology Top 100 rankings is now live for all to use as a resource for more than just the numbers behind the federal market's largest technology and services contractors.This latest episode of WT 360's Info Session series has our Nick Wakeman and Ross Wilkers do some talking about some of the numbers, including those that do not jump off the page. But the majority of their chat is about what the Top 100 tells us about what directions these government contractors

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00:30:24

Ultra I&C's gameplan for its new private equity era

WT 360: The market from all angles ·

2023/06/01

Advent International's acquisition of Ultra Electronics in the summer of 2022 was one in a series of investments the private equity firm has made in defense and government contractors: $28 billion to be exact within the past three-and-a-half years.For this episode, we turn the lens on the Ultra Intelligence & Communications business unit by hearing from its president Jon Rucker on how that team contributes to the larger whole that is Ultra Electronics.Rucker is six months into this role in leading

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00:33:56

ICF's vision for its tech office goes beyond ones and...

WT 360: The market from all angles ·

2023/05/22

ICF has a new organization in place that focuses on enabling technology innovation and its connection to service delivery across all of the firm's public and private sector markets.Joining WT 360 to take us through the team's mission and its place in ICF's overall strategy are Mark Lee and Kyle Tuberson, respectively chief technology executive and CTO at ICF.This is merely the latest in a series of moves by ICF to place itself further at the intersection of tech implementation, advisory and

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