The Future of GovCon

Everyone in GovCon is talking about AI. Rohit Gupta wants to talk about everything else. Rohit, CEO of Aretum and a technologist to the core, joins Jake Frazer to walk through the technology quietly reshaping federal IT: platform engineering, software supply chain security, cloud native operations, observability, and the race to post-quantum cryptography. They also cover Rohit's path from Mumbai t...

About 80% of NATO's space capability comes from the United States, and the Alliance doesn't fly its own satellites anymore. So who fills the gap? Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Devin Pepper, the first US Space Force general officer assigned to NATO and former Deputy Chief of Staff for Strategic Plans and Policy at NATO Allied Command Transformation, joins Jake Frazer to explain where NATO stands in space, and w...

Season 2 kicks off with the guest who kicked off Season 1. Patrick Malcor, PTS Co-Founder and Founder & CEO of Ajax Defense, returns to talk defense manufacturing: the tier 2 and tier 3 suppliers who actually make the parts for Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, and BAE Systems. With Tomahawk production set to go from about 60 missiles a year to more than 1,000, Patrick explains why the supply chain h...

Welcome to the Season 1 finale of The Future of GovCon, and we're closing out the season with something special: a Greatest Hits compilation featuring bold predictions from over 20 of the brightest minds in government contracting. From robotic battles in Ukraine to data wars in space, acquisition reform, workforce upskilling, European defense investment, and the rise of private equity in GovCon, o...

On this episode of The Future of GovCon, Jake Frazer sits down with Julian Setian, CEO of SOSi, one of the most respected privately held mid-tier government contractors in the industry. Julian has been building SOSi for over three decades, growing it from his mother's language and linguistics business into a highly diversified national security and defense intelligence company with work spanning t...

On this episode of The Future of GovCon, Jake Frazer sits down with Major General (Ret.) Pete Andrysiak, former Chief of Staff at U.S. European Command, former DCG of the 25th Infantry Division, licensed civil engineer, 36-year Army veteran, and now Senior Vice President at Palantir focused on European defense. Pete was at UCOM when Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, working alongside Genera...

A special solo episode of The Future of GovCon with Jake Frazer, CEO of Precision Talent Solutions. This is the fifth edition of the PTS Monthly Industry Spotlight, and this month Jake digs into what he is calling the new breed of business development talent in GovCon — and why every growth leader needs to be doing something different right now. With a $1.5 trillion defense budget request on the t...

On this episode of The Future of GovCon, Jake Frazer sits down with Major General (Ret.) Adrian Ciolponea, 41-year Romanian Army veteran, former NATO ACT Representative in Europe, former Special Operations Brigade Commander, doctoral researcher in drone and counter UAS integration, and author of the upcoming book "Drone Revolution: Transforming Future Military Operations." Adrian joined the Romani...

On this episode of The Future of GovCon, Jake Frazer sits down with Brigadier General (Ret.) Melissa "Mel" Stone, former Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for ISR, U.S. Air Force, former commander of the 363rd ISR Wing, Air Force Academy graduate, and founder of Keystone Strategic Solutions. Mel comes from a three-generation Air Force family. Her grandfather commanded the same wing she would command...

On this episode of The Future of GovCon, Jake Frazer sits down with Major General (Ret.) John Phillips, former EUCOM J6 and Deputy Chief of Staff for Signal and Cyber, 36-year Army veteran, Citadel graduate, and one of PTS's own Precision Experts. John just retired on day six when this was recorded, fresh off the job of running IT, cyber, and communications for U.S. European Command. In this conve...

On this episode of The Future of GovCon, Jake Frazer sits down with Josh Herren, CEO of Yulista Holdings, one of the leading Alaska Native Corporations in the government contracting space. Josh grew up in Nenana, a town of 300 people in the middle of Alaska, joined the Air Force as an EOD operator after watching Keanu Reeves in Speed as a kid, was recruited by the FBI and CIA coming out of the mil...

On this episode of The Future of GovCon, Jake Frazer sits down with Nancy Andrews, recently retired SES Tier 3 from the U.S. Air Force, former Program Executive Officer for Services overseeing 51% of the Air Force budget, former Director of Administration overseeing $5 billion at the headquarters level, and one of PTS's own Precision Experts. Nancy climbed from GS-2 intern to one of the highest ra...

On this episode of The Future of GovCon, Jake Frazer sits down with Lieutenant General (Ret.) Paul Chamberlain, former Army Comptroller overseeing a $185 billion budget, former Army Budget Director, former Commanding General of the Soldier Support Institute at Fort Jackson, Ranger, Special Forces officer, and one of PTS's own Precision Experts. Paul spent the last eight years of his 37-year Army c...

On this episode of The Future of GovCon, Jake Frazer sits down with Brigadier General (Ret.) Terri Borras, 40-year Army veteran, former Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff at the Army G2, veteran of CJTF-HOA in Africa, and one of PTS's own Precision Experts. Terri brings a perspective that is almost impossible to find in the GovCon market: an intelligence professional who started as a PV1 enlisted sol...

On this episode of The Future of GovCon, Jake Frazer sits down with Jim Carroll, CEO of the Professional Services Council, the leading voice for the government contracting industry representing over 400 member companies. Jim brings one of the most unique resumes in Washington: 15 years as a career civil servant, White House counsel under President Bush, Deputy White House Counsel and Chief of Staf...

On this episode of The Future of GovCon, Jake Frazer sits down with Bharath Gopalaswami, CEO and Co-Founder of Strelos AI, a C-UAS company, former Atlantic Council senior fellow, PhD from Trinity College Dublin, and one of the most credentialed space and national security thinkers in the GovCon ecosystem. Bharath has spent his career at the intersection of aerospace engineering, international secu...

On this episode of The Future of GovCon, Jake Frazer sits down with Chris Decker, President and Founder of Planate Management Group, a veteran-owned small business operating in 26 countries doing some of the hardest engineering and infrastructure work in the world's most challenging locations. Chris is a Naval Academy graduate and Navy Civil Engineer Corps veteran who built his company from the gr...

On this episode of The Future of GovCon, Jake Frazer sits down with John Heller, CEO of Amentum, one of the most consequential leaders in the government contracting industry today. Amentum is a $14 billion advanced engineering and technology company operating in 70 countries with over 50,000 employees. Under John's leadership the company has grown through landmark acquisitions including the merger...

On this episode of The Future of GovCon, Jake Frazer sits down with Barry Pavel, former Director for Defense Policy and Strategy on the National Security Council under Presidents Bush and Obama, former VP at RAND Corporation, and co-founder of the Scowcroft Center at the Atlantic Council. Barry has helped write multiple presidents' national security strategies and the first cyber deterrence strate...

On this episode of The Future of GovCon, Jake Frazer sits down with Tim Garnett, Partner and Space, Defense and Government Practice Lead at Oliver Wyman, formerly co-founder and Managing Partner of Avacent. Tim has spent 25 years at the intersection of government, defense, and capital markets. He has advised on some of the most consequential M&A transactions in the GovCon space and has a front...

On this episode of The Future of GovCon, Jake Frazer sits down with Lieutenant General (Ret.) John Morrison, former Army G6 and Deputy Chief of Staff for IT, former Chief of Staff for U.S. Cyber Command, and former Commanding General of the Army Cyber Center of Excellence. John has seen the Army's technology landscape evolve from crank telephones to AI assisted operations. In this conversation he...

On this episode of The Future of GovCon, Jake Frazer sits down with Patrick "PJ" Lechleitner, former Acting Director and Deputy Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, 21-year DHS and HSI veteran, Navy cryptologist, and Fairfax County police officer turned federal investigator. PJ pulls back the curtain on what is really happening inside ICE and DHS right now, where the money is flow...

On this episode of The Future of GovCon, Jake Frazer sits down with John Ustica, CEO of Siemens Government Technologies, for a conversation on the trends reshaping defense and GovCon from the ground up. John brings a perspective you don't often hear on this show: a career built not in the Pentagon but on the factory floor, working his way through one of the most complex companies in the world befo...

On this episode of The Future of GovCon, Jake Frazer sits down with retired Lieutenant General Dave Julazadeh, former Deputy Chief of Staff for Capability Development at NATO's Allied Command Transformation, F-16 combat pilot, and newly appointed COO of BENS (Business Executives for National Security). Dave breaks down what the war in Ukraine is revealing about the changing character of warfare, w...

On this episode of The Future of GovCon, Jake Frazer sits down with Rear Admiral (Ret.) Mark Fedor, 34-year Coast Guard veteran, former Coast Guard CFO, and Senior Director of Programs at HII. Mark pulls back the curtain on one of the most undercovered opportunities in GovCon: the Coast Guard. With $25 billion injected through budget reconciliation, a major headquarters reorganization with five ne...