WT 360: The market from all angles

Jacobs was born in 1947 as a company whose mission was to help clients carry out large-scale programs and that remains its focus. In today's landscape, that means working with the customer base on how to tie data and technology into those efforts. For this episode of WT 360, Jacobs executive John Karabias explains what he calls the current "wave three" iteration of his company's strategy. Jacobs'...

Amentum as the market knows it today launched in early 2022 and has since been at work making and rolling out its strategy with the help of two large acquisitions. How and where the global government services company has focused itself is the subject of this episode, where Amentum CEO John Heller explains to our Ross Wilkers what they are up to now. This includes the identification and pursuit of...

What business and technology macrotrends are going to dominate the agendas of companies in the government market for 2023? This episode is all about answering that question in the form of a discussion featuring our Ross Wilkers and Stephanie Smith, government contracting industry senior analyst and valuation services director at the global professional services firm RSM. Analysts and reporters hav...

As the long-time executive chairman and CEO of CACI International, Jack London became a legend in the government market for his leadership and vision.  He finished his new book "Ever Vigilant" before he died in January 2021. Two years later, the book has been published.  His wife Jennifer put finishing touches on the manuscript. This episode features Editor Nick Wakeman's conversation with Jennife...

ICF sees its move to a new corporate headquarters in Reston, Virginia after nearly three decades at its former hub in Fairfax as helping tell the larger story of the company's evolution. Chairman and CEO John Wasson has a unique vantage point given his career at ICF coincides with its time at the Fairfax headquarters campus. That relocation is the launchpad for our Ross Wilkers' interview with Was...

Episode number one for 2023 means the covers are off regarding a new name for our podcast, but with the same kinds of conversations as they have always been. What is now WT 360 remains all about the business of government contracting and all about the technologies involved in it, from the perspectives of leaders across the public sector ecosystem and others who observe the happenings. This premier...

Few observers in the federal market have the vantage point that David Berteau has in his role as CEO of the Professional Services Council, one of the main trade associations representing government contractors. He hears about the experiences of contractors of all sizes. Berteau joins this episode of Project 38 to wrap up 2022 that was for GovCon and look ahead to what 2023 is shaping up to be for...

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 ma...

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...

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,...

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...

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 con...

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, e...

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 on...

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 Techno...

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...

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 integrati...

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. Opieku...

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...

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...

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...

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 federa...

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 str...

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 assis...

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...