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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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00:25:24

Today's data challenge is tomorrow's opportunity

WT 360: The market from all angles ·

2022/12/13

Data is a huge challenge for government customers. It is also a missed opportunity.This episode of our podcast has Editor Nick Wakeman talk with Dominic Delmolino, vice president of field technology and engineering for Amazon Web Services' public sector business, about advances in cloud computing technology.Delmolino explains how those advances can enable agencies to get better use out of the massive amounts of information they generate each day.

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00:35:51

Inside the tech and business scouting strategy of...

WT 360: The market from all angles ·

2022/12/06

The government and commercial technology ecosystem is full of venture capital investors searching for companies with promising futures and to help them grow.In this episode, our Ross Wilkers speaks with two leaders at one of the market's most active venture investment firms that has been busy in putting its third fund at $340 million in capital to work after completing the raise in the fall.Mark Spoto and Matt Robinson, respectively a managing partner and vice president, explain the Razor's Edge

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00:20:40

ManTech's new CEO shares his vision and keys for growth

WT 360: The market from all angles ·

2022/10/25

Much has changed at ManTech over recent months, namely a new owner and new chief executive. The company is now privately-held after 20 years as a public company.But there is also stability with the transition to new CEO Matt Tait, formerly its chief operating officer. Tait shares his priorities with editor Nick Wakeman in this episode along with the marching orders he has from The Carlyle Group, the private equity group that acquired ManTech.Put simply, Carlyle wants ManTech to be ManTech

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00:26:55

Are you ready to leave your comfort zone?

WT 360: The market from all angles ·

2022/10/18

Walter Barnes III, founder of PM Consulting, shares his small business journey with Editor Nick Wakeman in this episode and offers advice on overcoming the hurdles and challenges he’s faced in the federal market.Many small businesses share the same challenges in achieving growth and success. Barnes shares his experiences and why he made some of the choices he made, including recently teaming with private equity firm Enlightenment Capital to fuel his company's next stage of growth.All companies have

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00:27:30

How innovation theater can affect change across the...

WT 360: The market from all angles ·

2022/10/11

Both a lawyer and data scientist by training, Shubhi Mishra started Raft four years ago as a digital engineering company focused on solving problems with high degrees of difficulty.Raft's method for doing just that is "innovation theater" -- a concept Mishra explained earlier this year at an entrepreneurs forum focused on defense and does so again in this episode with our Ross Wilkers.Mishra concedes some may not view innovation theater in a positive light at first glance, but sees that model as

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00:29:27

The metaverse has already arrived, but more is on the...

WT 360: The market from all angles ·

2022/10/04

Plenty of hype and skepticism surrounds the metaverse, but the substance is there to be found underneath the surface.This episode of Project 38 sees Chris Copeland and Kyle Michl, respectively chief technology and chief innovation officer at Accenture's federal subsidiary, introduce our Editor Nick Wakeman metaverse and explain how the physical and digital worlds are converging.As they see it, everyone is already in the metaverse to a certain degree. The metaverse is merely new way of interacting

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00:29:05

Volume is not all there is to the data challenge

WT 360: The market from all angles ·

2022/09/29

The U.S. government goes right to the top of the food chain regarding enterprises and the amounts of data they take in and distribute.Which naturally leads to the problem of data generation outpacing the technology needed to make sense of the volume.For this episode of Project 38, Babel Street CEO Michael Southworth takes our Ross Wilkers through what dual-use technology companies such as the one he leads are up to in working with agencies on solving that data challenge.Some of the data volume

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00:35:52

A fiscal-year end health check on the market

WT 360: The market from all angles ·

2022/09/19

Companies in the government technology landscape are familiar with turbulence in the market, but that has gone to a whole new level in recent times.What they are navigating and how they are going about it is the umbrella topic of this episode that sees our Ross Wilkers exchange notes and takeaways with John Caucis and James Wichert, public sector IT analysts at the market intelligence firm Technology Business Research.Just like us: the coverage area of Caucis and Wichert encompasses federal IT

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00:37:07

The government's customer experience push is a...

WT 360: The market from all angles ·

2022/08/30

President Biden's customer experience executive order signed in December 2021 puts technology at the center of efforts to improve how citizens obtain services from federal agencies.Which brings up these questions that are the focus of this Project 38 episode: What tech tools are best for certain efforts? How do agencies apply those tools? How do agencies go about buying them?Senior Staff Writer Ross Wilkers got some answers to those questions and more from Greg Gershman, co-founder and CEO of

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00:29:48

An insider's view on how Peraton put three big pieces...

WT 360: The market from all angles ·

2022/08/09

Mike King will quickly answer the question of whether the multiple billions of dollars spent to make Peraton, Northrop Grumman’s IT business and Perspecta into a single company were worth the money and energy.King can rattle off a series of wins as Peraton's chief growth officer. But as you will hear in this interview with Editor Nick Wakeman, King also quickly turns to subjects such as integration and the new culture Peraton has created.Peraton is working hard to make the most out of those

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00:24:18

Inside Leidos' business development approach

WT 360: The market from all angles ·

2022/07/28

Debbie Opiekun can rattle off a list of big wins for Leidos as the company's chief business development officer, a job that carries the responsibility of feeding growth for the federal technology market's largest contractor.In this Project 38 episode with Editor Nick Wakeman, Opiekun explains Leidos' philosophy for pursuing contracts and what they mean to the missions of federal customers.Opiekun also provides insights on how Leidos decides to bid for a business opportunity, including those times

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00:29:10

Booz Allen signaling intent with $100M ventures fund

WT 360: The market from all angles ·

2022/07/25

Booz Allen Hamilton wants to show the startup community it is serious about helping take their technologies into the U.S. public sector ecosystem.So much so that Booz Allen has stood up a venture capital organization to invest in emerging tech firms and given that team an initial $100 million in funding to start out with.Why formalize it after having already made three such investments? Here to explain why and the gameplan for Booz Allen Ventures is Brian MacCarthy, vice president of tech scouting

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00:33:39

Batsakis and Speigel explain their 'low-code' middle...

WT 360: The market from all angles ·

2022/07/20

Seven months ago, government market veterans George Batsakis and Jerad Speigel launched their partnership with a vision to create a middle-tier company that fills what they see as a gap in the landscape.Their creation of Groundswell through three acquisitions and a rebranding presents a company whose services center around low-code/no-code application development and digital transformation, among others.Groundswell's specific focus right now is on the Appian enterprise software offering but there is

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00:34:52

Inside Amentum's path forward after rapid expansion

WT 360: The market from all angles ·

2022/07/13

Amentum certainly has been a fast-moving consolidator since its launch as an independent government services company in 2020 with two large acquisitions since then.So what's next on Amentum's agenda? CEO John Heller updates our Ross Wilkers on the integration of PAE into Amentum, which wrapped up the integration of DynCorp International when Heller became CEO in March.Company no. 12 on our 2022 Top 100 rankings is a nearly $9 billion-annual revenue business with close to 50,000 employees around the

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00:29:31

Maximus embarks on new strategy via acquisitions and...

WT 360: The market from all angles ·

2022/07/07

Maximus is just getting started on its new strategy for the next three to five years after a series of large acquisitions to reposition the company for new opportunities.Those have taken place as the pandemic exposed multiple weaknesses in how services are delivered to citizens, but company no. 19 on our 2022 Top 100 sees those gaps as space to grow.For this episode, CEO Bruce Caswell and federal business leader Teresa Weipert talked with Editor Nick Wakeman about the changes at the company and how

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00:27:39

Inside Accenture's progress on integrating Novetta

WT 360: The market from all angles ·

2022/07/05

Accenture Federal Services has used acquisitions to transform itself and sees its purchase of Novetta as yet another opportunity to reimagine the way it operates.This episode of Project 38 is a deep dive into the journey company no. 13 on our 2022 Top 100 rankings is now on as told by Tiffanny Gates, former Novetta CEO and now AFS' national security portfolio leader; and Ira Entis, growth and strategy leader.They update WT Editor Nick Wakeman on how the integration has gone, what's changed about the

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00:30:25

How L3Harris wears its 'Trusted Disruptor' hat

WT 360: The market from all angles ·

2022/06/30

Company no. 10 on our 2022 Top 100 rankings views its embrace of disruption both within itself and from the outside looking in as necessary for the business and Defense Department customer equally.L3Harris Technologies' move in that direction is the focus of this episode featuring our Ross Wilkers with Sean Stackley, president of the company's integrated mission systems segment and a former assistant navy secretary for research, development and acquisition.Stackley explains what L3Harris means in

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00:21:59

Lumen's '4th Industrial Revolution' push in the...

WT 360: The market from all angles ·

2022/06/28

Lumen Technologies' corporate mission is to help enterprise organizations capitalize on the convergence of digital, physical and bio technologies commonly called the "Fourth Industrial Revolution."What that means for federal and public sector customers is a pillar of this episode featuring our Ross Wilkers' interview with Zain Ahmed, senior vice president of Lumen's public sector business.Ahmed explains how company no. 31 our 2022 Top 100 rankings strives to ensure that agencies are not overwhelmed

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00:19:23

Parsons' view of both market and tech convergence

WT 360: The market from all angles ·

2022/06/23

Parsons Corp. was born an engineering company in 1944 and remains such today in a world vastly different than the one it started in.Company number 39 on our 2022 Top 100 rankings is also equally a software business in both its government and infrastructure markets as told to us by Peter Torrellas, president of the company's connected communities business.Our senior reporter Ross Wilkers spoke to Torrellas in conjunction with Parsons' official unveiling of a new solution set and delivery model, which

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00:22:43

Why a Top 100 company changed its name after 33 years

WT 360: The market from all angles ·

2022/06/15

Change is a prevalent theme among Top 100 companies as they constantly adapt to customer needs, technology trends and competitive pressures.The focus of this Project 38 episode is NCI Information Systems' rebrand and relaunch as Empower AI 33 years after its founding -- a story that should resonate across the market.CEO Paul Dillahay explains to Editor Nick Wakeman how that change was years in the making and is much more than just swapping out one name for another. It’s also not just about picking a

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