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PROJECT 38: Can agencies force contractors to get the COVID-19 vaccine?

Can agencies require contractors to get the COVID-19 vaccine? Maybe, but it is complicated as attorneys Al Krachman and Brooke Iley explain to Senior Staff Writer Ross Wilkers in this episode.

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PROJECT 38: How small businesses can be M&A players too

John Allen of Bluestone Investment Partners tells WT Editor Nick Wakeman how small businesses can find a way to become players in today's hyperactive merger-and-acquisition landscape.

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PROJECT 38: What's new on CMMC & what's next

FCW Senior Editor Lauren Williams, our resident expert on the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification, stops by Project 38 to talk with Editor Nick Wakeman and Senior Staff Writer Ross Wilkers about the latest on the rollout of those new standards for contractors.

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What will drive the deals in 2021?

In this episode of Project 38, Washington Technology Editor Nick Wakeman and Senior Staff Writer Ross Wilkers discuss how they see little ahead to slow the pace of mergers and acquisitions in the federal market as buyers of all types continue to make big deals.

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PROJECT 38: What investor concerns say about the federal market

This wide-ranging discussion has Senior Staff Writer Ross Wilkers talk with Jon Raviv, an equity research analyst, and venture capitalist Mark Frantz about how investors are weighing federal budgets, mergers and acquisitions, and other factors driving the market.

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PROJECT 38: BlueHalo's strategy for transforming modern warfare

BlueHalo hit the market hard with six acquisitions in 2020 and as CEO Jonathan Moneymaker explains to Editor Nick Wakeman, this latest platform of Arlington Capital Partners is pursuing opportunities around the transformation of modern warfare.

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PROJECT 38: Was the SAIC-Unisys Federal deal worth it?

It’s been a year since Science Applications International Corp. made one of the biggest acquisitions of 2020 and this conversation between Editor Nick Wakeman and Bob Genter, SAIC's defense and civilian president, starts with the question: Was the Unisys Federal acquisition worth it?

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PROJECT 38: Dive deep into the 2021 GWAC agenda

In this episode of Project 38, Senior Staff Ross Wilkers goes to three leading market research and proposal specialists to get their views and insight into the overall GWAC landscape and what companies must take into account when pursuing them.

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PROJECT 38: Four mega-trends shaping today's market

Today’s market stands on the brink of great change and as SAIC's chief technology officer Charles Onstott explains to WT Editor Nick Wakeman, there are four mega-trends shaping those changes that companies need to embrace.

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PROJECT 38: Why tradecraft is the best way to treat your competitive data

In this episode of Project 38, Brian Lindholm of FedSavvy Strategies explains to Senior Staff Writer Ross Wilkers how gathering competitive intelligence is a close cousin to how the intelligence community processes all the data it gathers.

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PROJECT 38: Accenture's John Goodman on the need for speed and agility

John Goodman, chief executive for Accenture Federal Services, talks with Washington Technology Editor Nick Wakeman about the challenges and opportunities ahead that are driven in part by COVID-19 but also enabled by emerging technologies that can change how the government does business.

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PROJECT 38: Deloitte's vision of the post-COVID market

Deloitte’s public sector leader Mike Canning speaks with Editor Nick Wakeman about the long-term impacts of COVID-19 on work and the business of government, along with his view of how public health should now be a national security priority.

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PROJECT 38: A mega-deal, new Biden initiatives and CMMC drive the news cycle

The editorial teams from Washington Technology and FCW (virtually) gather to discuss the biggest news of January: news: megadeals, the new Biden Administration and what's happening with CMMC.

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PROJECT 38: Inside Telos' path to its IPO and what's next

For this episode of Project 38, Telos CEO John Wood takes Senior Staff Writer Ross Wilkers inside the five-decade-old firm’s initial public offering and why that path makes sense for them.

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PROJECT 38: How a new 'More's Law' drives today's market

In this episode of Project 38, Smartronix CEO Peter LaMontagne explains to Editor Nick Wakeman a new concept called “More’s Law” that sees agencies demand more data, more often, from more sources, in more formats and with more self-service tools to drive insights.

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PROJECT 38: How 2020 has shaped 2021 opportunities

We can finally turn the page to 2021 but any look to the future requires some looking back at 2020. In this episode of Project 38, PM Consulting Group’s founder Walter Barnes gives Senior Staff Writer Ross Wilkers the ground-floor perspective on both what drove the federal market in 2020 and factors to shape it in 2021.

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PROJECT 38: 2020's hot GovCon stories

In the final episode of Project 38 for 2020, Editor Nick Wakeman gathered reporters from Washington Technology, FCW and Defense Systems to review their top stories of the year on topics ranging from the pandemic to JEDI to CMMC to the presidential transition.

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PROJECT 38: How Amentum's DynCorp acquisition will transform the company

In this episode of Project 38, Amentum CEO John Vollmer describes to Senior Staff Writer Ross Wilkers how the company navigated its first year and why its recent acquisition of DynCorp will transform the company further.

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PROJECT 38: Will the Biden administration drive more commercial tech into the market?

Megan Metzger of Dcode, the organization built to bring commercial technology firms into the federal market, and Editor Nick Wakeman talk about opportunities sparked by the incoming Biden administration. But many of those opportunities have more to do with a changing market than with politics.

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PROJECT 38: How public-private partnerships have forever changed

The coronavirus pandemic is one of those situations where collaborations between the public and private sector entities had to accelerate given the situation. In this episode of Project 38, Guidehouse CEO Scott McIntyre and COO Charles Beard share their views with Senior Staff Writer Ross Wilkers on what those partnerships looked like in 2020 and how they’ll change going forward.