Podcasts

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.

WT 360: CHIPS Act opportunities are not just for companies that make them

Larry Sher, a government contracts attorney and partner at Winston & Strawn, explains how the Commerce Department is casting its net far and wide for companies to participate in the U.S.’ semiconductor leadership push.

Find opportunities — and win them.

WT 360: Defense One’s Audrey Decker on Boeing’s direction and Air Force, Space Force priorities

Audrey Decker from our partner publication Defense One explains the ongoing turmoil in Boeing’s government business, along with what’s important these days for the Air Force and Space Force customers she covers.

WT 360: AI’s increasing adoption across GovCon operations

Unanet’s Kim Koster discusses what she learned about artificial intelligence in helping put together her company's newest GAUGE report, which looks at how government contractors work in the market.

WT 360: All about the human element in acquisition

Adam Rentschler, co-founder and chief executive of Valid Eval, joins to outline the role technology and data can play in helping government buyers defend their decisions to bring some humanity back into the ecosystem.

WT 360: A roadmap for keeping innovation and entrepreneurship pipelines healthy

Arun Gupta, chief executive of NobleReach Foundation, joins to describe how the nonprofit organization is looking to facilitate more public-private sector partnerships in order to better equip the government in solving problems at scale.

WT 360: Defense One's Sam Skove on the drone industry's vital signs

Sam Skove, who covers the Army for our partner publication Defense One, jumps in to go over the branch's push for more small drones and where the industrial base that makes them is at right now.

WT 360: Dennis Kelly's blueprint for building billion-dollar GovCons

Tyto Athene's chief executive Dennis Kelly joins to overview how he and his company approach acquisitions, integrations, team-building and evolution as the role of federal systems integrators changes all the time.

WT 360: Raft's big decision and vision for the digital battlefield

Shubhi Mishra, co-founder and chief executive of Raft, describes her decision to find an investor to support the software engineering startup and where they go from here with Washington Harbour Partners' backing.

WT 360: NextGovFCW's David DiMolfetta on the global network outage

David DiMolfetta, who covers cybersecurity at our partner publication NextGovFCW, jumps in to explain how federal agencies are working to recover and learn from the mid-July computer outage that was historic in scale.

WT 360: Our EIC Frank Konkel on generative AI across the intelligence community

Frank Konkel, editor-in-chief for GovExec's publications including us, jumps in to take stock of how far along this normally secretive group of agencies is at with their adoption of generative artificial intelligence.

WT 360: KBR's Top 100 footprints extend across the globe

Byron Bright, president of U.S. government solutions at KBR, describes how Company No. 17's work for that particular client set extends well beyond America to include its allies and where technology fits into the bigger picture.

WT 360: GovCIO's Top 100 journey from its transformative acquisition

Joe Cormier, both chief operating officer and chief financial officer at GovCIO, outlines how Company No. 41's combination with Salient CRGT has shaped its pathway almost four years on and what he sees as next steps.

WT 360: Lumen's Top 100 strategy builds off its network core

Jason Schulman, national vice president of federal government sales at Lumen Technologies, explains how company No. 38's public sector team works with agencies on their network modernization agendas.

WT 360: More signposts to note from the 2024 Top 100

Nick and Ross continue their 2024 Top 100 chat by highlighting one company as certain to climb up the 2025 rankings after its big merger, plus how growth and commercial tech partnerships go together for all systems integrators.

WT 360: Our first snap judgments of the 2024 Top 100

Nick is all done putting together the 2024 Top 100 rankings. Now it's time for Nick and Ross to start talking about the directions and themes the list illustrates about the federal technology and services market.

WT 360: All about Telos' post-IPO journey

Telos Corp.'s chief executive John Wood joins to review the security technology company's four years since its initial public offering and preview the pathway it has laid out for a return to growth.