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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.
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PROJECT 38: How the Biden administration can accelerate digital services
Many people see little change from the Trump administration to the Biden administration as far as tech priorities are concerned. But in this conversation with Editor Nick Wakeman, 18F co-founder Greg Godbout describes what he sees as an opportunity to accelerate the evolution toward a digital transformation of government.
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PROJECT 38: COVID's permanent impact on GovCon and human capital
Government contracting is a people business even as technology and connectivity loom large. In this episode of Project 38, senior staff writer Ross Wilkers talks with Jon Barney of Odgers Berndson, and Sam Dinte of Dinte Executive Search about permanent changes COVID has brought to how GovCon firms recruit and develop their workforce.
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PROJECT 38: Microsoft's federal focus and the importance of mission resiliency
As president of Microsoft's U.S. regulated industries, Toni Townes-Whitley looks across the legacy of the software giant as well as its future. She shares that vision with Editor Nick Wakeman as they talk major contract wins, social justice, emerging technology and mission resiliency.
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PROJECT 38: How the presidential transition impacts your BD, capture activities
Even in normal election year, the transition from one administration to the next create uncertainty in the market. Business development and capture management expert Bob Lohfeld tells us what companies should do to successfully move through these next few months.
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REPORTER ROUNDTABLE: The presidential transition and other pressing GovCon issues
In this episode of Project 38, Editor Nick Wakeman leads a discussion with colleagues from Washington Technology and FCW about what the presidential transition means to the government contracting market and other issues having an impact as well.
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PROJECT 38: How small businesses can breach the barrier of silence during the time of COVID
Govmates founders and matchmakers Katie Bilek and Stephanie Alexander return to Project 38 to speak with Senior Staff Writer Ross Wilkers about the challenge of silence that small businesses face in today's COVID marketplace.
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PROJECT 38: How implicit bias can lead to bad decisions
In this episode of Project 38, diversity and inclusion expert Minal Bopaiah tells us how unconscious bias can permeate how we make decisions and even how we design our technology. But Bopaiah also sees ways to mitigate the impact.
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PROJECT 38: What fiscal 2020 spending tells us about the market
With fiscal 2020 just wrapped up, Bloomberg Government's senior defense analyst Rob Levinson and WT senior staff writer Ross Wilkers take the opportunity to look back at those 12 months and they look ahead at what might happen next, particularly with how civilian agencies have stepped up their spending.
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PROJECT 38: Your next big tech hub might be in rural America
In this Project 38 episode, Brendan Walsh from 1901 Group talks with Washington Technology Editor Nick Wakeman about how today's tech revolution is creating an opportunity to build successful businesses in rural America.
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