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WT 360: Sagewind Capital’s thesis for adaptation and fast decisions
Steve Lefkowitz and Raj Kanodia, co-founders and leaders of Sagewind Capital, overview how the investment firm’s portfolio companies make technology core to their strategies and adjust when the landscape moves quickly.
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WT 360: Our breakdown of the federal CIO’s departure, OneGov’s future and whatever CMMC will look like
NextGov/FCW’s executive editor Jessie Bur joins Nick and Ross to go around the world of Fed Tech, starting with the federal chief information officer’s pending exit and ending with the CMMC security standard’s murky future.
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WT 360: LMI’s approach to ‘commercial-grade, mission-ready technology’ and innovation cultures
Alex Adamczyk – vice president of sales, engineering and rapid prototyping at LMI – explains how Top 100 Company No. 73 seeks to blend its technology and business blueprints so it can bring innovations to agencies.
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WT 360: Odyssey Systems and the landscape’s shifts in speed, decision authorities
Matt Kasberg, chief executive of Company No. 73 on our 2026 Top 100, explains how Odyssey Systems works with the defense acquisition community amid a period of so much change in that function.
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WT 360: Our breakdown of the 2026 Top 100 and everything it illustrates
Nick and Ross huddle up to overview the 33nd annual edition of WT’s flagship research project, the major takeaways and talking points it presents, and whether or not it looks noticeably different from the 2025 ranking.
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WT 360: Key points (and questions too) from Trump’s fixed-price contracting and AI orders
Stephanie Kostro, president of the Professional Services Council, overviews how industry is looking at what President Trump’s executive orders on fixed-price contracts and artificial intelligence mean for them, among other burning GovCon topics.
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WT 360: All about AE Industrial’s place in the market's private capital action
Kirk Konert, managing partner at AE Industrial Partners, describes his firm’s approach of aligning investment decisions with government priorities and tells the story of how two portfolio companies hit the public markets.
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WT 360: Defense tech investing is cool again, but can it stay that way?
Steve Brotman, founder and managing partner of Alpha Partners, explains what has led to venture and other investors wanting in on defense tech companies and key markers for watching future movements in the ecosystem.
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WT 360: A pulse check on GovCon’s capital market landscape
Dave Khalsa, head of mid-cap defense and government technology investment banking at J.P. Morgan, reviews the conditions and decisions shaping public offerings and all other transaction types across the sector.
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WT 360: NextGov/FCW’s David DiMolfetta on CISA’s catchup, federal AI policy and offensive cyber
David DiMolfetta, cyber reporter at NextGov/FCW, jumps in to break down the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s path forward after an 11-week funding lapse and other major storylines in his coverage universe.
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WT 360: NextGov/FCW’s Edward Graham on the world’s AI and robotics leadership race
Edward Graham, managing editor at NextGov/FCW, jumps in to take us through how a new White House memo on artificial intelligence security helps illuminate the competition between the U.S. and China.
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WT 360: GovCon’s new world order requires hard pivots
Davi Hayes, senior director for federal strategy at The Chertoff Group, summarizes the past 12 months of fundamental change across the market and what companies must have in mind as they adjust to today’s landscape.
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WT 360: Noblis and its next 30 years
CEO Mile Corrigan discusses technology transition efforts and venture investments as federal agencies seek faster lab-to-field solutions.
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WT 360: Arcfield and the modern era’s space races
Kevin Kelly, chief executive of Arcfield, joins to go over how the systems engineering outfit is looking at a landscape that involves large-scale initiatives like Golden Dome and making data centers work in space.
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WT 360: NextGov/FCW’s Natalie Alms on the early days of DOGE and its cost-cut decisions
Natalie Alms, senior correspondent at NextGov/FCW, jumps in to explain how court testimony helps shed light on the Department of Government Efficiency’s goals and decisions to make contract and grant cuts.
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WT 360: GovCon’s vital signs point to DHS’ partial closure, Anthropic’s possible exit and the FAR Overhaul
Stephanie Kostro, president of the Professional Services Council, joins Nick and Ross to go over how the Homeland Security Department funding lapse is uneven in nature and other industry-wide happenings.
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WT 360: All about the paths forward for SAIC, Anthropic, resellers and 8(a) companies
Nick and Ross start to look at next steps for Science Applications International Corp., IT resellers and 8(a) companies amid their changing landscapes. Anthropic’s impasse with the U.S. government also comes under the microscope.
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WT 360: Nextgov/FCW’s Alexandra Kelley on the government’s breakup with Anthropic
Alexandra Kelley, our Nextgov/FCW colleague who covers emerging tech, jumps in to explain how agencies are phasing out Anthropic’s artificial intelligence tools amid the company’s disagreement with the Pentagon on usage of them.
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WT 360: Enabled Intelligence’s blueprint for the data labeling challenge
Peter Kant, founder and chief executive of Enabled Intelligence, explains how the company works with the U.S. government to better grasp the data agencies have and tailoring large language models for them to use.
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