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Astrion's quest to become the next great mid-tier
WT 360: The market from all angles - May 13, 2024 10:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsDave Zolet, CEO of the newly-formed Astrion, has set an aggressive goal to double its annual revenue to around $1.5 billion in three years. That’s the needed size and scale to be a formidable mid-tier player today and fill a sweet spot in the market, Zolet says in this episode. The 2,800-employ...
BlueHalo's next steps with Eqlipse in its fold
WT 360: The market from all angles - May 06, 2024 10:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsBlueHalo as the market knows it today is around four years old with a strategy centered around space, cyber, directed energy and other key tech priority areas for the U.S. military and allied forces. Now the defense technology integrator is joining forces with another like it that has the same ...
All about Guidehouse's vision to be a 'next-generation consultancy'
WT 360: The market from all angles - April 29, 2024 10:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsGuidehouse was owned by one of the government market's most active private equity firms in Veritas Capital until its December sale to one of the investment world's cornerstone names. In this episode, Guidehouse's chief executive Scott McIntyre describes the blueprint laid out by the company and...
Our EIC Frank Konkel on Google's government cloud and AI push
WT 360: The market from all angles - April 22, 2024 10:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsGoogle's cloud environment now has license to host secret and top secret data, which is a must-have for the company in its pursuit of large opportunities at defense and intelligence agencies especially. Frank Konkel, editor-in-chief for GovExec's publications including us, had a front-row seat ...
The NDAA is both law and a business roadmap
WT 360: The market from all angles - April 15, 2024 10:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsOnce passed and signed into law, the National Defense Authorization Act lays out the Pentagon's policy priorities and dictates how and where its appropriated funds are to be used. The NDAA also functions as a roadmap for companies to shape their business strategies as explained in this episode ...
Defense One's Lauren Williams on the Pentagon's new cyber-industrial strategy
WT 360: The market from all angles - April 08, 2024 10:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThe Defense Department has a new industrial cybersecurity strategy in place to help contractors improve their data and network security postures with a particular focus on small businesses. DOD's emphasis on cyber through that strategy and beyond is an ongoing storyline that Lauren Williams sta...
GovCon needs to watch the push against noncompetes too
WT 360: The market from all angles - April 01, 2024 10:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIt definitely feels like the tide is turning against noncompete agreements across the country: five states ban them outright, while many others have restrictions on when they can be enforced and on whom. The Federal Trade Commission's effort to make these pacts illegal in the U.S. has a long ru...
NextGov/FCW's Natalie Alms on modernization challenges
WT 360: The market from all angles - March 25, 2024 10:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThe federal government has several large technology initiatives underway such as improving customer experience and leveraging artificial intelligence. Those issues are at the heart of what Natalie Alms writes about for NextGov/FCW, one of several sibling publications for Washington Technology. ...
Steps to take now as you prepare for CMMC
WT 360: The market from all angles - March 18, 2024 10:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThe final Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification rule is still months or maybe even a full year away, but the heart of rule will not change: standard 800-171 from the National Institute of Standards and Technology. In this episode, Fortinet's federal chief technology officer Felipe Fernande...
Everfox hits the street with focus on government, critical infrastructure
WT 360: The market from all angles - March 11, 2024 10:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsRebrandings are a constant in the government market and the company now known as Everfox is the newest example of that after its acquisition by one of the world's largest investment firms. The cybersecurity business formerly known as Forcepoint Federal, and before that as Websense, now exclusiv...
LMI's logistics heritage also informs its present and future
WT 360: The market from all angles - March 04, 2024 11:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsLMI was chartered during the Kennedy administration in 1961 as a provider of logistics management services and research to the federal government, work that remains core to the firm's vision and strategy. That has not changed for LMI, but its change in 2022 from being a nonprofit to for-profit ...
M&A is not only for the biggest players
WT 360: The market from all angles - February 26, 2024 11:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThe presence of private equity firms continues to grow in the government market because as Zach Hester says in this conversation with Editor Nick Wakeman: “It just works." Plain and simple. Most of the largest companies in the market have used acquisitions as a catalyst for organic growth. But ...
All about SMX's digital transformation thesis
WT 360: The market from all angles - February 20, 2024 11:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsSMX can trace its history back to 1995 and that timeline includes the name Smartronix, a marker represented in the current name that seeks to balance recognizing history with continuous evolution. Digital transformation remains the core focal point of the new SMX's strategy and a main topic of ...
How GovCon's 'Rule of Two' is poised to grow in scope
WT 360: The market from all angles - February 12, 2024 11:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsMultiple-award contract vehicles are where a majority of the government's buying activity seems to take place these days, but the "Rule of Two" that tells agencies how to work with small businesses did not apply there. The White House has started to work on changing that through a Jan. 31 memo ...
CMMC lessons from the voluntary assessment program
WT 360: The market from all angles - February 05, 2024 11:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThe Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification regulation may not be final for at least another year, but the Defense Department has been running a voluntary program for companies to go through a third-party assessment. That test looks at how compliant companies are with the standards at the he...
How the auto industry informs DMI's federal strategy
WT 360: The market from all angles - January 29, 2024 11:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsDMI was born as a mobility solutions provider in 2002 and that remains a core component of its approach to digital transformation work with federal agencies. But another much faster-moving sector of the economy looms large in DMI's strategy for public sector. In this episode, DMI's chief execut...
How emerging tech drives change across the market and more mission focus
WT 360: The market from all angles - January 22, 2024 11:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThe rise of artificial intelligence, heightened demand for improved customer experience and the relentless pace of change are all continuing to drive the market here in 2024. In this interview with Editor Nick Wakeman, ACT-IAC's CEO David Wennergren describes both the challenges ahead for agenc...
A look inside GovCon's crystal ball for 2024
WT 360: The market from all angles - January 16, 2024 11:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsGetting out the crystal ball to predict future developments is a hazardous exercise, but a first look at topics and conversations happening across the government contracting ecosystem can help in preparation. Our first episode of 2024 serves as that initial glimpse into what is important for th...
The drivers of M&A in 2023 and what lies ahead
WT 360: The market from all angles - December 18, 2023 11:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsWe live in a world where there are challenges on multiple fronts – the war in Ukraine, China and a continuing terrorist threat. Those challenges drive federal budgets and defense spending, which in turn set the tone for mergers and acquisitions. This episode has Jean Stack, co-lead of the inves...
An initial glimpse at 2024's GovCon budget and policy landscape
WT 360: The market from all angles - December 13, 2023 11:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsAn 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 Prof...
ASRC Federal's vision highlighted by supply chain, tech and talent
WT 360: The market from all angles - December 06, 2023 11:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsA 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 ...
A roadmap to knowing the customer's buyer profile
WT 360: The market from all angles - November 27, 2023 11:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsPrice 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 askin...
All about AE Industrial Partners and its GovCon investing approach
WT 360: The market from all angles - November 15, 2023 11:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsAerospace, 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 sta...
How artificial intelligence can help make better proposals
WT 360: The market from all angles - November 08, 2023 17:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsGenerative 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 t...
All about how OTA contracts really work
WT 360: The market from all angles - October 23, 2023 10:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsOther 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...
Budget disconnects and opportunities define today's federal market landscape
WT 360: The market from all angles - October 10, 2023 04:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThe 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 start...
RTX Ventures casts its net wide and far across an expanding tech ecosystem
WT 360: The market from all angles - September 18, 2023 10:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsMore 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 ...
For Lockheed's ventures team, its investments are merely step one
WT 360: The market from all angles - September 05, 2023 10:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThe 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 th...
All about Amentum's tech strategy and 2 key legs of it
WT 360: The market from all angles - August 28, 2023 10:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsAmentum'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 r...
People are at the center of all cyber talk
WT 360: The market from all angles - August 21, 2023 10:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsCybersecurity 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 cyb...
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