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WT 360: All about pathways for tech talent into the public sector

Arun Gupta, chief executive of NobleReach Foundation, says having more 'dual citizens' of industry and government will help people understand both sides of the ecosystem and attract more talent.

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WT 360: How AI drives Accenture Federal's growth plans

Ron Ash, CEO of Accenture's U.S. federal subsidiary, joins to describe how AI-driven initiatives are reshaping strategic partnerships and opening more opportunities for outcome-based contract work.

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WT 360: ICF’s pillars for its technology modernization outlook and approach

David Birken, senior vice president for digital modernization and experience at ICF, joins to go over some keys for mapping technology implementations to workforce trends and what customer delivery looks like in today’s landscape.

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WT 360: Is employee ownership right for your company?

David Blauzvern, a managing director and ESOP specialist at CSG Partners, lays out some answers to that question and what employee stock ownership plans can offer government contractors for their next phases.

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WT 360: SAIC Ventures’ methods for investing in and working with tech startups

Michael Hauser, managing partner for Science Applications International Corp.’s venture capital arm, walks through how this part of the company works to bring emerging technologies forward after they invest in a young company.

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WT 360: One founder’s guide to making hard pivots and picking the right investor

Sophia Harris, founder and chief executive of ODRG, charts the path her company has taken since its inception in 2013 and how a full change in approach positioned it for an investment from Advantage Capital.

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WT 360: Defense One’s Lauren Williams on reindustrialization and its underlying ecosystem

Lauren Williams, our Defense One colleague and a senior editor there, jumps in to help connect some dots between the defense industrial base and the U.S.’ efforts to regain global manufacturing leadership.

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WT 360: Our EIC Frank Konkel on Uber’s federal pact and procurement centralization

Frank Konkel, editor-in-chief for all GovExec publications including WT, jumps in to help connect the rideshare giant’s agreement with the General Services Administration and the agency’s agenda for reforming government contracting.

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WT 360: All about messaging and its relationship to business performance

Dustin Siggins and Katie Helwig, public relations and GovCon practitioners respectively, go over the past decade in corporate culture shifts and how external messaging connects directly to communications with government customers.

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WT 360: Adaptation is essential for companies to thrive in today’s market

Aaron Myers -- partner for aerospace, defense and government advisory at Aprio -- goes over how contractors should balance change with staying true to themselves in a customer landscape full of demands to do business differently than before.

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WT 360: Nextgov/FCW’s David DiMolfetta on Iran, cyber and the Salt Typhoon breach

David DiMolfetta, our Nextgov/FCW colleague who covers all things cyber, jumps in to explain how U.S. government agencies are monitoring Iran’s cyber activities and why a major intrusion into telecommunications networks keeps getting worse.

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WT 360: Nextgov/FCW’s Edward Graham on the Veterans Affairs’ contract controversy

Edward Graham, our Nextgov/FCW colleague who covers VA, jumps in to break down why some lawmakers are pressing the department for transparency on its use of artificial intelligence in deciding which contracts to cancel.

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WT 360: The 2025 Top 100 also is a roadmap for next year and beyond

Nick and Ross carry on their 2025 Top 100 conversation by highlighting some key tension points government and industry are sorting through five months into the Trump administration and what that foreshadows about the future.

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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, our Defense One senior editor colleague 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, our Defense One colleague who covers the Air Force and Space Force, 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.