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WT 360: Our first takeaways from the 2025 Top 100 with more to follow
Nick is all done putting together the 32nd annual edition of our flagship rankings. For this first in a two-part episode, Nick and Ross start talking all about what this research project tells us about both the companies and market.
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WT 360: Defense One’s Lauren Williams on international companies and their US ambitions
Lauren Williams, a Defense One senior editor focused on technology and business, jumps in to explain why companies headquartered outside the U.S. want a bigger footing there amid all the tariff and economic turbulence.
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WT 360: All roads lead back to GSA in this ‘Editor’s Summit’ episode
Frank Konkel, editor-in-chief for GovExec’s publications including us, joins Nick and Ross to unpack the General Services Administration’s newest moves to be the central agency for all things GovCon and some other major storylines.
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WT 360: Defense One’s Audrey Decker on the Golden Dome and its big challenges
Audrey Decker, who covers the Air Force and Space Force for Defense One, jumps in to detail this big idea for a future national missile defense system and what makes its development so “wicked hard.”
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WT 360: Clear themes to note from the emerging structural changes to acquisition
Tris Carpenter, general manager for strategic growth at Red Team Consulting, goes over what companies should look for in the proposed rewrite of the Federal Acquisition Regulation dubbed FAR 2.0.
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WT 360: How federal tech policy leans on speed, efficiency and commercial approaches
Bill Wright, head of global government affairs at Elastic, explains how the bipartisan nature of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity shapes policy and how industry can play a critical role in that.
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WT 360: All about termination reversals and GSA’s consolidation push
Jeff Shapiro, government contracting advisory and regulatory assurance partner at CohnReznick, explains what happens after agencies try to undo contract terminations as well as questions raised by the General Services Administration’s push to expand its procurement power.
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WT 360: Our EIC Frank Konkel on GSA, Google and the government as a single whole customer
Frank Konkel, editor-in-chief for GovExec’s publications including us, jumps in to go over Google’s massive discounted offering to agencies and how that pact with the General Services Administration will not be the last like it.
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WT 360: How software shapes the market's M&A landscape
Jean Stack and John Song, co-managing directors at Baird & Co.'s government practice, join to go over the tech-centric areas of heated demand for acquirers and the fundamentals that drive M&A activity.
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WT 360: All about private equity’s past, present and future in GovCon
Greg Nossaman and Greg Woodford, co-founders of the investment bank G Squared Capital Partners, go over how private equity has become core to the market's fabric and how business owners should approach partnering with these investors.
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WT 360: What CACI’s acquisitions say about the opportunities ahead
Jeff MacLauchlan, chief financial officer at CACI International, explains the company's philosophy for filling gaps in capabilities and customers with the idea of investing ahead of customer needs.
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WT 360: We unpack the 2024 M&A roundup and GovCon’s ongoing adjustment to Trump 2.0
Nick and Ross start out by going over the newest edition of our annual report that catalogs merger-and-acquisition activity, then shift their discussion to how the new administration still leaves contractors guessing roughly 11 weeks in.
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WT 360: Supply chain health and wealth remains paramount
Leo Alvarez, a principal in Baker Tilly’s government contractor solutions practice, lays out how companies can make supply chain risk management a core aspect of their business and not just about legal compliance.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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