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PROJECT 38: How Razor's Edge Ventures scouts for tech and companies

The U.S. national defense strategy is a guide for how Razor's Edge Ventures decides where to make its investments, as two of their leaders explain in this episode.

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PROJECT 38: New ManTech CEO shares his vision and keys for growth

ManTech CEO Matt Tait says their new owners in the Carlyle Group have told them this: ManTech needs to be ManTech to succeed in today's market. He tells editor Nick Wakeman what that means in this episode.

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PROJECT 38: Are you ready to step out of your comfort zone?

Small business entrepreneur Walter Barnes III, founder of PM Consulting, shares his journey with Editor Nick Wakeman and offers advice on overcoming the hurdles and challenges he’s faced in the federal market.

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PROJECT 38: Using innovation theater to speed up change

What is the concept of innovation theater and how can it break the public sector ecosystem's status quo? Hear Raft's founder and CEO Shubhi Mishra both explain and dispel the negative notions surrounding it to our Ross Wilkers.

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PROJECT 38: How the metaverse is already here with more to come

The metaverse is changing how agencies operate and how contractors deliver solutions. To hear Chris Copeland and Kyle Michl of Accenture Federal Services explain things to our Editor Nick Wakeman, the concept is more than a buzzword.

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PROJECT 38: Volume is merely one leg of the data challenge

The statistics alone are daunting on how much data is being created in the world. Babel Street CEO Michael Southworth offers up those figures and what the tech industry's answers are in this episode with our Ross Wilkers.

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PROJECT 38: A fiscal year-end checkpoint of the market

Where companies are prioritizing their investments and seeing headwinds is the focus of this episode that has our Ross Wilkers swap notes and thoughts with John Caucis and James Wichert, public sector market analysts at Technology Business Research.

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PROJECT 38: The government's customer experience push is also an industry effort

The business community's role in how federal agencies pursue their customer experience agendas is the focus of this episode featuring our Ross Wilkers' conversation with Greg Gershman, part of the Healthcare.gov rescue team and now CEO of digital services company Ad Hoc.

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PROJECT 38: An insider's view on Peraton's mega integrations

Peraton Chief Growth Officer Mike King tells Editor Nick Wakeman why the combinations with Perspecta and Northrop Grumman's IT business has been worth the billions of dollars and energy to turn three distinct companies into something new.

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PROJECT 38: Inside Leidos' business development approach

Keeping Leidos' pipeline as the federal technology market's largest company full is the job of its Chief Business Development Officer Debbie Opiekun, who in this episode explains the company's philosophy of pursuing opportunities.

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PROJECT 38: Booz Allen signaling intent with $100M ventures fund

Booz Allen Hamilton's move to formalize its venture investment function with a set dollar figure shows how serious it is in bringing tech startups into the U.S. public sector, the firm's lead tech scouting and ventures executive Brian MacCarthy tells our Ross Wilkers.

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PROJECT 38: Batsakis and Speigel explain their 'low-code' middle-market strategy

George Batsakis and Jerad Speigel share with Editor Nick Wakeman the strategy and vision behind their rebranded digital transformation company Groundswell that was built through three acquisitions over seven months.

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PROJECT 38: Inside Amentum's path forward after rapid expansion

Company no. 12 on our 2022 Top 100 rankings sees its scale and reach as in-line with what government agencies expect of their services providers, as Amentum CEO John Heller explains in this episode of Project 38.

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PROJECT 38: Maximus embarks on its new strategy

Maximus' chief executive Bruce Caswell and federal business leader Teresa Weipert take our Editor Nick Wakeman inside the company's plan to become a leader in citizen services and IT modernization.

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PROJECT 38: Inside Accenture's progress on integrating Novetta

Tiffanny Gates and Ira Entis of Accenture Federal Services update WT Editor Nick Wakeman on the integration of Novetta and where they see that combination taking company no. 13 on our 2022 Top 100 rankings.

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PROJECT 38: How L3Harris wears its 'Trusted Disruptor' hat

Company no. 10 on our 2022 Top 100 rankings views that its embrace of that identity as requiring both internal and external components, L3Harris Technologies executive Sean Stackley says in this episode to our Ross Wilkers.

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PROJECT 38: Lumen's '4th Industrial Revolution' push in the public sector

The "Fourth Industrial Revolution" is about both technological advancement and rapid societal change. It is also in Lumen Technologies' corporate mission and drives its federal strategy as explained to our Ross Wilkers by Zain Ahmed, senior vice president of public sector at company no. 31 on our 2022 Top 100.

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PROJECT 38: How the convergence of digital and physical drive Parsons' growth

Parsons Corp. was born an engineering company in 1944 and still is. But software is also a core component in both federal and infrastructure markets as our Ross Wilkers heard from Peter Torrellas, president of the company's connected communities business.

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PROJECT 38: Why a Top 100 company changed its name after 33 years

CEO Paul Dillahay explains to Editor Nick Wakeman why NCI Information Systems became Empower AI and how the multi-year journey leading up to that new name transformed the Top 100 company.

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PROJECT 38: Why we all need mentor-protégé relationships

People are what really drive success no matter what the latest and greatest technology is. Marketing experts Mark Amtower and Sheri Ascencio share the story of their mentor-protégé relationship with Editor Nick Wakeman and explain why those are so valuable.