HighlightCast

This Month, Adam McNair and Kevin Long sit down with members of our business development, marketing, and operations team to discuss 2020 accomplishments, challenges, and goals for the upcoming year. 

Adam McNair and Kevin Long sit down with Highlight Technologies Internal Ops Manager, Mary Padberg, to discuss the DoD's new CMMC cybersecurity certification. From Highlights self assessment, to the audit process to the effect on the government contracting landscape. 

Adam McNair and Kevin Long are joined by Highlight's Manager of Operational Excellece, Devon Du Fur, to discuss ISO, CMMI, and process improvement. 

Adam McNair and Kevin Long discuss the recent rebranding of Highlight Technologies. 

Adam McNair and Kevin Long address the government shutdown, and different ways to handle things. They talk how companies are affected at an executive level, employee retention, and essential vs nonessential personnel on different projects. Plus, a strategy on how to aid current furloughed employees.

This episode of The HighlightCast brings another interesting perspective related to the business world. Anyone who has expertise in business growth knows the importance of location. A business’ location, from where they offer their main services or products, is way more than just identity. You will be surprised how much a location can impact the daily happenings of any business.

On the 3rd episode of the HighlightCast, Adam and Kevin talk about the end of the fiscal year and how things are, for the government and contractors, at this point. Afterwards, they delve into a short series of topics, touching the cord of confrontations inside the industry in it's growth stage.

On the second episode of the HighlightCast, hosts Adam McNair and Kevin Long, open up by discussing the purpose of the podcast; having another avenue to communicate with their employees, sharing insights on the latest news in the industry and some of the challenges faced by small businesses in the industry as well as innovative ways to overcome those challenges.

The first topic discussed is multiple award contracts and government wide contracts which have been done for a very long time. They mention Alliant 2, the former of which came out 5 or 6 years ago, and the GSA STARS programs. Adam discusses how there are three major vehicles that represent billions of dollars in federal contracts that are being adjudicated right now. They discuss the protests surrounding these contracts and how too many bidders make the whole process complicated.