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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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00:19:09

Reporters' Roundup: CMMC, CARES Act and the risk of a...

WT 360: The market from all angles ·

2020/10/05

The last month has brought more than its share of important news for government contractors as well as their agency customers. In this Project 38 podcast a panel of leading journalists discuss some of the pressing topics of concern for the GovCon market. FCW Executive Editor Adam Mazmanian, Washington Technology Senior Staff Writer Ross Wilkers, and FCW Senior Editor Lauren Williams join WT Editor Nick Wakeman to discuss topics such as the latest activity around CMMC, the extension of the CARES Act

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00:21:56

Top 100: Why Leidos isn't standing still

WT 360: The market from all angles ·

2020/09/28

In part two of our interview with Leidos' business development chief Roy Stevens, he talks about how the 2016 merger with Lockheed Martin's services business continues to pay dividends today and how more recent acquisitions are positioning the company for new opportunities. Even though Leidos is the No. 1 company on our Top 100, it sees a need to evolve and grow as the market changes. Stevens shares with Editor Nick Wakeman opportunities the company sees on the horizon, including the Asia-Pacific

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00:20:42

TOP 100: How focus drives SAIC's success

WT 360: The market from all angles ·

2020/09/23

In this episode of Project 38, Nazzic Keene shares her thoughts and perspective after one year as CEO of Top 100 company Science Applications International Corp. Keene started the year with three priorities and she talks with Editor Nick Wakeman about how those priorities continue to drive the company forward, with some tweaks and adjustments of course. Keene also goes over the integrations of Unisys Federal and Engility, plus how COVID-19 is complicated everything. But through it all, she has

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00:19:43

How the Top 100's telecom giants keep us connected...

WT 360: The market from all angles ·

2020/09/21

In this episode of Project 38, we hear from top public sector executives at the 2020 Washington Technology Top 100’s three highest-ranked telecommunications firms on their work to keep government agencies and people connected during the coronavirus pandemic. Almost overnight, the COVID-19 situation created a vast dispersed workforce that sees many people based at home and all of them primarily using the same networks provided by the three largest telecom companies – AT&T, Lumen and Verizon – and

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00:16:35

Top 100: Inside Serco's monster year

WT 360: The market from all angles ·

2020/09/17

In our continuing series of Top 100 related podcasts, Serco Inc. CEO Dave Dacquino explains how the company started laying the groundwork years ago for a monster 2019. Last year, Serco Group's U.S. subsidiary posted 20 percent organic growth and closed the $336 million acquisition of the Navy design business of Alion Science & Technology. But getting there required serious soul searching and a focus on changing the company’s culture that relied too much on low-price bids. Those moves helped the

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00:18:57

Inside BAE's Top 100 strategy and COVID-19's impact...

WT 360: The market from all angles ·

2020/09/15

Rarely does a blue chip defense hardware company close two deals it views as transformational in the same calendar year. In this episode of Project 38, BAE Systems Inc. Tom Arseneault explains the thinking for why the company moved quickly to put its best foot forward for a military GPS business and airborne radio unit formerly of Raytheon Technologies. The British defense company’s U.S. subsidiary has a lot on its agenda right now beyond integrating those acquisitions. Managing through the

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00:15:54

Top 100 insights into Leidos' capture strategy

WT 360: The market from all angles ·

2020/09/10

In this episode, Roy Stevens, executive vice president and chief of business development and strategy for Leidos, the No. 1 company on the Top 100, shares insights on how Leidos chased two of the biggest contracts of the year. The company pursued and won the $6.5 billion Global Solutions Management Operations contract or GSMO. Leidos was the incumbent on that one. They also successfully challenged the incumbent for the Navy’s $7.7 billion NGEN contract. That contract is still tied up in a protest

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00:21:19

GovCon’s most important number is not strictly a...

WT 360: The market from all angles ·

2020/08/27

Companies in the government market always cast glances at the budget, but now they are zeroed in on whether they will see a key piece of legislation to help them manage through the COVID-19 pandemic. In this episode of Project 38, Kea Matory of the National Defense Industrial Association updates us on where the situation is regarding Section 3610 of the CARES Act economic stimulus law that expires Sept. 30. NDIA is one of the major trade groups that represents companies in the government market. As

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00:25:57

COVID-19 as a trigger for innovation

WT 360: The market from all angles ·

2020/08/19

As chief technology officer for Science Applications International Corp., Charles Onstott is constantly looking to understand new technologies and how they can be applied to customer problems. In this episode of Project 38, he explains some myriad ways the COVID-19 pandemic has become a trigger for innovation. The virus is changing how we work, the kind of health care services we need and even the business models government contractors adopt. All of these changes have a technology impact, from how

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00:31:04

How the ban on Chinese tech impacts the GovCon community

WT 360: The market from all angles ·

2020/07/30

Defense policy expert and attorney Samantha Clark explains the far ranging implications of a new rule that bans agencies from awarding contracts to companies using or selling telecommunications equipment from certain China based companies Clark, special counsel at law firm Covington and Burling, talks with senior staff writer Ross Wilkers to help understand what this new rule means and how government contractors are making sense out of it in this episode of Project 38. A former Senate Armed Services

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00:30:55

Reporters' Roundtable: NDAA, Alliant 2 SB...

WT 360: The market from all angles ·

2020/07/23

Reporters from FCW and Washington Technology discuss the latest news including the cancellation of Alliant 2 SB, the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act, and the direction Lockheed Martin's new CEO is taking the company. Ross Wilkers from WT and Lauren Williams and Mark Rockwell from FCW join host Nick Wakeman in a roundtable discussion of the latest news in the market. They dig beyond the headlines and share what stories are on their radar and why those stories are important to the government

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00:28:50

Understanding the impact of COVID and the social...

WT 360: The market from all angles ·

2020/07/17

The continuing acceleration of the COVID-19 pandemic coupled with the simultaneous revival of diversity and social justice movements in the United States can be overwhelming. In this episode of Project 38, we attempt to distill what it all means with the help of Capitol Hill veteran and GovCon community leader Tonya Saunders. Saunders watches how policy sets the environment in which government contractors operate and how events in society often dictate policy as a government relations specialist

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00:16:33

Stress test on the defense industrial base

WT 360: The market from all angles ·

2020/07/14

The COVID-19 pandemic has put the defense industrial base through a stress test unlike any other but one that did have some groundwork laid before it. In this episode of Project 38, John Luddy of the Aerospace Industries Association explains what the sector was concerned about before the pandemic and what this national emergency has highlighted. AIA is one of the major trade groups that represents companies in the government market to federal agencies and lawmakers. As its vice president of national

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00:27:18

What Deltek's Clarity report says about today's market

WT 360: The market from all angles ·

2020/07/06

Deltek's annual Clarity report is a yearly snapshot of the industry that looks at people, processes and best practices in the government contracting industry. But in the midst of a pandemic that has turned the world of contractors and customers upside down, the report offers an opportunity to focus on what companies can do to improve and how they compare to their peers. Editor-in-Chief Nick Wakeman talks with Amy Champigny, Deltek’s senior product marketing manager and leader of the annual Clarity

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00:31:56

Diversity and national security

WT 360: The market from all angles ·

2020/06/25

The conversation about diversity in the national security and overall public sector ecosystem goes through peaks and troughs, and the past month would certainly qualify as a peak period. Get a glimpse at how talk and action go hand-in-hand in this episode of Project 38 with Maggie Feldman-Piltch, founder and CEO of #NatSecGirlSquad. Feldman-Piltch lives and breathes the subject of what she and the consulting and networking firm call “competent diversity” and leadership to make that happen. Competent

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00:21:51

How the coronavirus has changed business as usual

WT 360: The market from all angles ·

2020/06/04

Successful companies have always had closely-aligned sales and marketing teams, but the coronavirus pandemic has disrupted the usual way of doing business, creating a significant challenge across the market. Allan Rubin, head of marketing at ORock Technology and recognized expert in the field, shares how sales and marketing teams can stay aligned in a world where traditional activities such as live events and in-person networking have fallen to the wayside as everything has shifted to digital and

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00:23:47

PSC's David Berteau and the path forward

WT 360: The market from all angles ·

2020/05/21

David Berteau sees the myriad ways the coronavirus pandemic from his perch as President and CEO of the Professional Services Council. In this episode of the Project 38 podcast, Berteau shares his thoughts on the health of the market and where it could go from here. PSC is the leading voice of government services companies to federal agencies and lawmakers. Those firms' services cover a broad swath of the market and as such, the impact of the pandemic has ranged greatly from company to company. But

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00:31:11

Global IT issues hit the federal landscape

WT 360: The market from all angles ·

2020/05/19

How do the widely-reported disruptions in global IT supply chains caused by COVID-19 impact both the federal government and its leading systems integrators? We take an “outside-in” approach to finding some answers in this episode with Michael Hong and Jeff Sorensen of Kearney’s public sector practice. Why call it “outside-in” for this conversation? Federal agencies and their largest IT product and service providers all rely on the same supply chain network, one way or another, all the way from basic

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00:26:03

Reporters' Roundtable: COVID-19's impact on work,...

WT 360: The market from all angles ·

2020/05/14

Three reporters from Washington Technology and our sibling publication FCW.com share insights on the impact the COVID-19 pandemic is having on business, policy and work in the government market. Washington Technology Senior Staff Writer Ross Wilkers, and FCW reporters Lia Russell and Lauren Williams have focused their coverage on the myriad ways the pandemic is reshaping the marketplace. But each brings a unique perspective. Russell is focused on workforce issues. Wilkers has been writing about how

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00:13:32

Looking both ahead and back at the enduring...

WT 360: The market from all angles ·

2020/05/04

A glance at what the pre-coronavirus world looked like for federal agencies quickly brings technology modernization back to the forefront, and that is where we pick up for this second of a two-part interview with ICF CEO John Wasson. The federal government’s priorities are obviously centered around the pandemic today, innovation in terms of both new technology and business practices were top of mind for many agencies before that shift in attention. In this part two, Wasson and Senior Staff Writer

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