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Artificial intelligence is not just a technology that government contractors provide their customers, but also is becoming a bigger piece of internal operations.
Kim Koster, vice president of product marketing at Unanet, joins WT Editor Nick Wakeman for this episode to discuss how and where contractors are adopting AI in their own operations as found in the newest edition of her company's GAUGE report.
Unanet and CohnReznick work each year to release GAUGE -- Government Contract Compliance, Accounting, Utilization, Growth and Efficiencies.
In explaining the 2024 GAUGE findings, Koster shares insights on AI usage trends, maturity levels and implementation strategies. Still not on your AI journey yet? Koster has some advice on how to start that as well.
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Frustration builds up when things go wrong in the world of government acquisition and that feeling is true on both sides: the customer and contractor alike.
Adam Rentschler and his partners started Valid Eval in 2011 to help agencies make better evaluations at scale. All throughout this episode, the latter two words of that sentence come up frequently in the conversation between Rentschler and our Ross Wilkers.
Rentschler’s vision is for the acquisition ecosystem to have more humanity in it and the use of data to help lead that effort.
Those concepts may seem contradictory on the surface, but Rentschler brings them together throughout the discussion.
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Many of the ingredients for creating more connective tissues between business, government and society are already in place even with so much commentary and conversation around what may be lacking on that front.
NobleReach Foundation launched in 2022 to be at the forefront of making more of those links happen. In this episode, NobleReach’s chief executive Arun Gupta describes how the nonprofit looks to do just that by taking others with them along the way.
Entrepreneurs out there who want to be part of solving big problems are both a core constituency of NobleReach and agencies that want greater access into that part of the innovation ecosystem, as Gupta explains to our Ross Wilkers.
Gupta co-authored the book “Venture Meets Mission” alongside his colleagues Gerard George and Thomas Fewer to lay out a roadmap and guiding principles for better alignment.
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Next to satellite imagery, drones have been the major technological focal point for the war in Ukraine and U.S. Army leaders have been looking to learn quickly from how the systems are being used there.
Sam Skove, who covers the Army and Marine Corps for our partner publication Defense One, has seen much of this action first-hand from visits to bases in the U.S. where the drones are tested and in Eastern Europe where they are fielded.
In this episode, Sam takes our Ross Wilkers through his reporting on how the Army's desire to bring more small drones into its fold does not necessarily match up with the U.S.' industrial capacity to make them in large quantities.
The reasons for that disconnect are myriad as Sam explains, as are some of the solutions he has heard from informed observers on how to bridge that gap.
Wartime need for drones would outstrip US production. There’s a way to fix that
Army puts new unit loaded with cutting-edge tech to the test
US shouldn't learn the wrong lessons about Ukraine’s drones, expert says
What Estonian drone companies are learning from Ukraine
Across the Army, units lean into drone experimentation
Army brass opposes drone branch
FPVs, tethered drones could become formal Army programs in 2025
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Dennis Kelly's public sector career journey began in the Navy and has continued as a senior executive for multiple contractors, which he led through periods of growth to be acquired by larger companies.
Now as CEO of Tyto Athene, Kelly brings that experience of building and scaling multiple businesses in a dynamic market.
In this episode, Kelly describes his approach for doing that in a conversation with WT's Editor Nick Wakeman and lays out Tyto Athene's path for growth.
Kelly also provides candid reflections on his journey from Navy veteran to federal tech CEO and shows his passion for supporting critical national security missions.
Tyto Athene hires Kelly as chief executive
BlueHalo to combine with Eqlipse Technologies
CIS Secure Computing acquires intelligence community IT firm
The drivers behind KBR's 'largest to date' & 'most transformational' acquisition
PAE closes A-T Solutions acquisition
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Raft's first six years of being in business are a lot like what many startups encounter, in that much of the growth has been bootstrapped and in very select corners of the market landscape it works in.
Now Raft is in a place where Shubhi Mishra, who started the software engineering company in 2018, believes there is much more greenfield in front of it. That led her to start looking for an investor in the company.
In this episode, Mishra tells our Ross Wilkers all about how she went against the advice of many other founders that told her to not go down that path and why she chose Washington Harbour Partners to back this phase of Raft's strategy.
Also on their agenda: the so-called "digital battlefield" concept and a significant paradigm shift Mishra wants to see in the prime-subcontractor relationship in the interest of advancing innovation.
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Much of the world shut down on July 19 after cybersecurity company CrowdStrike distributed a faulty software update that essentially rendered 8.5 million Microsoft Windows computers useless.
David DiMolfetta, who covers cybersecurity at our partner publication NextGovFCW, led the bulk of GovExec's coverage of the aftermath even though the outage was not technically a cyber situation. But all that happened does bring up questions about network vulnerabilities and resilience.
In this episode, David tells our Ross Wilkers all about how federal agencies are working to recover and learn from an event that was truly historic in scale.
Blue screens of death were everywhere on July 19 and the entire situation was weird. As David explains, the scale of the outage is leading agencies to re-examine how they approach cyber and keeping tech assets healthy.
Summer-only sessions helped blunt CrowdStrike outage impact on US schools
Crowdstrike IT outage linked to update using new threat detection system
How the CrowdStrike outage carved out new opportunities for hackers
Biden briefed on CrowdStrike IT outage as multiple federal systems impacted
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Generative artificial intelligence is only the newest example of how federal agencies have different comfort levels with adopting new technologies and in this instance, intelligence agencies appear to be bolder in charting their path forward.
Frank Konkel, editor-in-chief for GovExec's publications including us, wrote a deep dive article earlier this month that includes his conversations with some intelligence community leaders on where their agencies are at in Gen AI.
In this episode, Frank tells our Ross Wilkers all about what they told him and what else he found in putting together that story to explore what IC agencies are up to in Gen AI and their grander visions for the technology.
As you will hear from Frank, they want to go fast and also be thoughtful about mitigating some of the risks in doing so.
The US intelligence community is embracing generative AI
The CIA is taking a ‘crawl, walk, run’ approach to GenAI
2023 was just the start of generative AI’s rise, government and industry leaders say
Proceed with caution: Industry advises a careful approach to generative AI
3 in 4 Americans Worry AI Will Take Their Jobs
CIA Awards Secret Multibillion-Dollar Cloud Contract
Pentagon awards $9B cloud contract to Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Oracle
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Just about every conversation about technology across the federal landscape seems to begin and end with generative artificial intelligence, a tool that spurs fears and hopes all at the same time.
Edward Graham has a front-row seat to many of those conversations in his role at our sibling publication Nextgov/FCW, where he reports on national security technologies and policies.
For this episode, Edward tells our Ross Wilkers all about the current state of play for where the Defense and Homeland Security Departments are at on their generative AI journeys.
Guardrails and pilots are more than just buzzwords for generative AI. As you will hear from Edward, they are the key words to hone in on for understanding where generative AI is today and the direction it is going in.
DOD’s generative AI task force will help set guardrails for broader use
DHS generative AI pilot embraces hiccups of emerging tech
AI can enhance border security but won’t close workforce gap, lawmakers say
DHS hires initial cohort of 10 to join its AI Corps
VA is already using AI to identify and assist veterans in crisis, officials say
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Byron Bright described KBR as a "big, large science, technology and engineering company" to open a presentation for investors in May on the vision and blueprint for the entire business.
His description to Wall Street is also the starting point for this episode, where Bright explains how Company No. 17 on our 2024 Top 100 tailors that idea to U.S. government work and sheds further light on the worldwide nature of what KBR does.
The trilateral AUKUS security partnership between Australia, the U.K. and U.S. is an example of how KBR thinks globally. Today's AUKUS activity remains mostly government-to-government, but Bright believes that will open up opportunities for industry after more is figured out.
Bright also overviews KBR's work to build out a franchise space business and the technology angle to everything the company does.
The 2024 Washington Technology Top 100
How we got our numbers
Our 2024 Top 100 reader's guide
Trends driving today's Top 100
Diversity gaps persist among the Top 100 C-suites
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GovCIO's starting point for its journey in the market might as well be the acquisition of Salient CRGT in 2020 that greatly multiplied both key measurements of scale: revenue base and workforce.
Joe Cormier, both chief operating officer and chief financial officer at GovCIO, explains in this episode how the technology integrator has become what it is today as a result of that transaction. For context: GovCIO was at 500 employees when its private equity owner entered the investment and now has 3,000 on staff.
Company No. 41 on our 2024 Top 100 is now almost solely focused on organic growth, including its capture of a recompete almost four times the size of its predecessor. Cormier describes that win to our Ross Wilkers in their wide-ranging conversation that also covers how GovCIO approached the integration and is thinking about what's next for itself.
Dive into the rankings and more surrounding them by clicking the links below:
The 2024 Washington Technology Top 100
How we got our numbers
Our 2024 Top 100 reader's guide
Trends driving today's Top 100
Diversity gaps persist among the Top 100 C-suites
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As one of the federal government's primary carriers, Lumen Technologies also takes on the mantle of layering the latest innovations on top of the core network to make it more complete and well-rounded.
Jason Schulman, national vice president of federal government sales at Lumen Technologies, explains in this episode how the company works with agencies to make that happen regardless of where they are in their innovation comfort levels.
For Company No. 38 on our 2024 Top 100, that also means looking beyond the current Enterprise Infrastructure contract vehicle as the government is already thinking about its successor. Schulman tells our Ross Wilkers all about how the work begins now on that front for carriers and agencies alike.
Dive into the rankings and more surrounding them by clicking the links below:
The 2024 Washington Technology Top 100
How we got our numbers
Our 2024 Top 100 reader's guide
Trends driving today's Top 100
Diversity gaps persist among the Top 100 C-suites
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Even with this year's Top 100 rankings out for all to see, sometimes it's never too early to start looking at next year's when we have certainty over how two companies will feature on it.
For this second in a two-part episode, Nick and Ross pick up where they left off in part one by highlighting how the complex merger of Amentum with Jacobs' government services businesses will affect the 2025 ranking. This is one of several examples they highlight of how mergers and acquisitions affect the rankings every year.
Nick and Ross also highlight how just about every IT systems integrator ties their strategy to working well with global commercial tech providers. Company No. 100 on the ranking also gets the spotlight in their discussion.
Dive into the rankings and more surrounding them by clicking the links below:
The 2024 Washington Technology Top 100
How we got our numbers
Our 2024 Top 100 reader's guide
Trends driving today's Top 100
Diversity gaps persist among the Top 100 C-suites
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Edition number 31 of the Washington Technology Top 100 rankings is now live for all to use as a resource for more than just the numbers behind the federal market's largest technology and services contractors.
This latest episode of WT 360 has Nick and Ross start their talking through the companies and numbers that feature on the ranking, but particularly what they tell us about the government market's directions.
Here is *some* of what was on their agenda for this first in a two-episode series on the Top 100:
The top quadrant's significant market share concentrationHow tech implementation and consulting are becoming more intertwinedWhat Science Applications International Corp.'s new CEO wants the company (No. 11) to grow intoWe will post the second half of the discussion next Monday morning. Same time, same place.
Dive into the rankings and more surrounding them by clicking the links below:
The 2024 Washington Technology Top 100
How we got our numbers
Our 2024 Top 100 reader's guide
Trends driving today's Top 100
Diversity gaps persist among the Top 100 C-suites
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Initial public offerings in the government market are a rare event, so it was natural to focus much attention on Telos Corp.'s IPO in the fall of 2020 and where the company wanted to go next.
Telos' chief executive John Wood spoke to us shortly after the completion of that IPO and returns for this episode to provide an update on the security technology company's execution since then.
A significant aspect of Telos' journey as a public company can be characterized as a transition. As Wood describes to our Ross Wilkers, that also involves going toward a destination and not just an exit from something.
The overall security landscape for government and industry also features prominently in their discussion, both in the cyber realm and elsewhere.
PROJECT 38: Inside Telos' path to its IPO and what's next
Telos lays out plan for its year of transition
Where to now for Telos & its IPO proceeds?
Why Telos decided the time is now for its IPO
Already somewhat public, Telos' IPO further illuminates strategy
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It is the law of the land that says federal agencies cannot simply discard any of the data they take in, no matter how much they already have and regardless of whether it is digital or physical.
Melissa Carson, vice president and general manager of Iron Mountain's government solutions business, starts out this episode with facts and figures to help quantify the volume challenge agencies have with one mind-boggling number on government forms to pay attention to.
She then tells our Ross Wilkers all about how the government, and companies like Iron Mountain, are connecting efforts to make data management easier with the overall customer experience agenda.
That work includes turning physical assets into the digital form, which is no easy feat, but becoming more so with the advent of generative artificial intelligence and other AI techniques. Having the right guardrails in place is key to making that a success though, according to Carson.
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Dave 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-employee company was created through a pair of acquisitions by private equity firm Brightstar Capital. Zolet is busy creating a new company culture that he calls the "Astrion Way" -- a blend of technical skills with deep customer knowledge and focus.
As Zolet tells our Editor Nick Wakeman, he wants Astrion to be a company that can look around the corner and see what's coming so it can bring solutions to customers that help them meet their missions faster and more efficiently.
Zolet shares the company strategy and future plans in this conversation.
This is episode three in our 2024 series on mergers and acquisitions across the government market.
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BlueHalo 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 private equity owner in Arlington Capital Partners. In this episode, BlueHalo's chief executive Jonathan Moneymaker explains the decision to combine with Eqlipse Technologies and the overall demand landscape that is behind the move.
"Transforming the Future of Global Defense" is the tagline all over BlueHalo's website and other promotional materials, and one Moneymaker spoke to us about in 2021 early on in the journey. Moneymaker returns now to tell our Ross Wilkers about what that transformation looks like here in 2024 and shares some first-hand anecdotes of how he has seen it.
This is episode two in our 2024 series on mergers and acquisitions across the government market.
BlueHalo to combine with Eqlipse Technologies
PROJECT 38: BlueHalo's strategy for transforming modern warfare
Private equity drives high transaction volume in 2023
2024 M&A Round Up
WT 360: All about Guidehouse's vision to be a 'next-generation consultancy'
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Guidehouse 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 its new owners Bain Capital with respect to what's next and how they plan to get there.
A bulk of that can be seen in how Guidehouse has adopted this approach for itself – "Building our next-generation consultancy." McIntyre explains what that means to our Ross Wilkers, plus how consulting is now much more than just providing clients advice, and the ways Guidehouse works with customers that are regulators and among the regulated.
This is episode one in our 2024 series on mergers and acquisitions across the government market.
Private equity drives high transaction volume in 2023
2024 M&A Round Up
Guidehouse to get a more global private equity owner
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Google'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 to that announcement and at Google's flagship cloud conference April 9-11 in Las Vegas.
In this episode, Frank joins our Nick Wakeman and Ross Wilkers to explain what Google's receipt of that key security authorization means for both the tech giant itself and the larger cloud computing landscape with respect to federal.
Google had much to share at its Cloud Next conference and Frank had much to talk about with key government and industry leaders there: conversations on all things cloud and artificial intelligence that he provides a glimpse into for Nick and Ross.
Google is now authorized to host classified data in the cloud
Google Public Sector ‘hitting our stride’ in government market, CEO says
Google centers public sector strategy on alliances with integrators
Google Bets Big on Government Business with New Division
Pentagon Awards $9B Cloud Contract to Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Oracle
CIA makes awards for intelligence community's next massive cloud contract
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