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WT 360: Thales North America steps into the spotlight as strategic opportunities emerge

Alan Pellegrini, CEO of Thales Group's North American subsidiary, discusses how he sees global priorities shifting and how the business is shaping its portfolio across space, defense and cybersecurity.

  • By Nick Wakeman

WT 360: How private capital helps spin the tech innovation cycles

Tiffanny Gates, the former Novetta CEO now at Capitol Meridian Partners, describes how private equity and other investment models like it help bring commercial innovation into the public sector ecosystem.

  • By Ross Wilkers

WT 360: DOGE takeaways for industry and the race for tech superiority

Luis Avila, a managing director in BDO’s technology and transformation practice, runs us through the major themes that investors are hearing about from publicly traded government contractors and how they set the tone for the industry.

  • By Ross Wilkers

WT 360: Federal sales cycles from more angles than just capture

Amber Hart and Lisa Shea Mundt, cofounders of The Pulse of GovCon, go over the keys for taking a “BD 360” approach in the market and their aptly-named new book.

  • By Ross Wilkers

WT 360: Inside the government’s quantum computing push

Alexandra Kelley, who reports on emerging technology for NextGovFCW, jumps in to explain how and why federal agencies are ahead of the curve in quantum computing.

  • By Nick Wakeman and Alexandra Kelley

WT 360: EY’s blueprints for emerging tech adoption and anti-fragility

Doree Keating, leader of Ernst & Young’s Americas government and public sector practice, explains the global consulting giant’s approach to blending that work with technology skills amid longer-term shifts in the public sector workforce.

  • By Ross Wilkers
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WT 360: Tariff talk is for GovCon too

Larry Sher, a government contracts attorney and partner at Winston & Strawn, lays out what government contractors should understand regarding how the prices of imported goods and services matter to them and their customers.

  • By Ross Wilkers

WT 360: NextgovFCW’s Natalie Alms on GSA and Musk’s moves there

Natalie Alms, who covers federal technology policy and tech workforce matters at our partner publication NextgovFCW, jumps in to update us on General Services Administration happenings that involve Elon Musk.

  • By Natalie Alms and Ross Wilkers

WT 360: Taking stock of GovCon and Trump’s first two weeks back in office

Nick and Ross work through the questions they can answer on what has happened so far in the transition to a second Trump administration. They also ponder the questions everyone in the ecosystem is seeking answers to.

  • By Ross Wilkers

WT 360: The ties between tech and talent in the public sector

Jill Jones and Yoko Jolly, executives at CrossVue, discuss the connections between technology and transformation efforts across government with respect to their human capital initiatives.

  • By Ross Wilkers

WT 360: Jacobs remains tech-focused after services spinoff

Jacobs executive Shannon Miller explains how the company is doubling down on digital solutions for critical infrastructure, sustainability and life sciences programs after divesting parts of its its federal business o Amentum.

  • By Nick Wakeman

WT 360: Our first look at GovCon’s agenda for 2025

Stephanie Smith, RSM’s GovCon senior industry analyst, gets this New Year going with an initial overview of key themes and talking points that should dominate the discussion for the next 12 months.

  • By Ross Wilkers

WT 360: Unpacking what we can from the Trump 2.0 transition so far

David Berteau, president and CEO of the Professional Services Council, walks us through what government contractors should watch as a second Trump administration moves in and Biden's moves out.

  • By Ross Wilkers and Nick Wakeman
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WT 360: How Leidos leans on repeatability in its tech transformation work

Steve Hull, president of Leidos’ digital modernization sector, goes over how the company looks for common themes across government that do not require completely reinventing the implementation and delivery wheels.

  • By Ross Wilkers

WT 360: Nextgov/FCW’s Natalie Alms on skills-based hiring across public sector

Natalie Alms, who covers technology workforce matters for our partner publication NextgovFCW, jumps in to explain how government agencies and their contractors are changing some job requirements for new employees.

  • By Natalie Alms and Ross Wilkers

WT 360: All about V2X’s new chapter of optimization

Jeremy Wensinger, V2X’s chief executive since June, goes over how the company is looking past the heavy-lifting of integration after the 2022 merger that created it and focusing on taking the broader portfolio to market.

  • By Ross Wilkers

WT 360: Where Amentum wants to go next following its big merger

Steve Arnette, chief operating officer at Amentum, explains how this new version of the company sees itself in the global government services landscape and what it means to have a “technology-enabled growth strategy.”

  • By Ross Wilkers

WT 360: How the defense industrial base can improve its readiness

Jerry McGinn, executive director of the Baroni Center for Government Contracting at George Mason University, goes over how the U.S. industrial base has responded before and the path forward for future responses.

  • By Nick Wakeman

WT 360: BryceTech's CEO shares her secrets for rapid growth

Carissa Bryce Christensen discusses how her company earned a Fast 50 spot for four consecutive years and the keys to being a successful business in the GovCon market.

  • By Nick Wakeman

WT 360: A roadmap for navigating the business lifecycle

James Calver, a partner at fractional executive services provider TechCXO, goes over some basic principles of what it really means to be a growth-oriented company and where the starting points are to make that happen.

  • By Ross Wilkers

WT 360: All about fiscal year 2025’s signposts and markers

John Caucis and James Wichert, public sector market analysts at Technology Business Research, explain where federal IT budget outlays are going and how some companies are looking to be both integrators and consultants.

  • By Ross Wilkers