Reporters from FCW and Washington Technology discuss the latest news including the cancellation of Alliant 2 SB, the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act, and the direction Lockheed Martin's new CEO is taking the company.

The continuing acceleration of the COVID-19 pandemic coupled with the simultaneous revival of diversity and social justice movements in the United States can be overwhelming. In this episode of Project 38, we attempt to distill what it all means with the help of Capitol Hill veteran and GovCon community leader Tonya Saunders.

The COVID-19 pandemic has put the defense industrial base through a stress test unlike any other but one that did have some groundwork laid before it. In this episode of Project 38, John Luddy of the Aerospace Industries Association explains what the sector was concerned about before the pandemic and what this national emergency has highlighted.

AIA is one of the major trade groups that represents companies in the government market to federal agencies and lawmakers. As its vice president of national security policy, Luddy has his eye not just on member companies but how their government customers and the Defense Department in particular are managing through the crisis.

Major questions remain to be answered and the funding environment remains a significant question mark, but Luddy walks us through the items that warrant consideration and what DOD has done so far to support cash-strapped companies in particular.

Deltek's annual Clarity report is a yearly snapshot of the industry that looks at people, processes and best practices in the government contracting industry.

But in the midst of a pandemic that has turned the world of contractors and customers upside down, the report offers an opportunity to focus on what companies can do to improve and how they compare to their peers.

Editor-in-Chief Nick Wakeman talks with Amy Champigny, Deltek’s senior product marketing manager and leader of the annual Clarity effort. She shares key takeaways from the report and areas of opportunity for the industry such as human capital strategies, how data can drive better decisions and IT and business development trends.

The conversation about diversity in the national security and overall public sector ecosystem goes through peaks and troughs, and the past month would certainly qualify as a peak period. Get a glimpse at how talk and action go hand-in-hand in this episode of Project 38 with Maggie Feldman-Piltch, founder and CEO of #NatSecGirlSquad.

Feldman-Piltch lives and breathes the subject of what she and the consulting and networking firm call “competent diversity” and leadership to make that happen. Competent diversity to them means building a national security and defense workforce that is more resilient, capable and agile.

Guidehouse worked with the Squad on a survey released earlier this year to ask members about the challenges they face in entering, working in and leading in national security. Feldman-Piltch discusses with Senior Staff Writer Ross Wilkers some of the broader trends and findings that illuminate what is happening on the ground floor, plus how to turn the conversation into action.

Successful companies have always had closely-aligned sales and marketing teams, but the coronavirus pandemic has disrupted the usual way of doing business, creating a significant challenge across the market.

Allan Rubin, head of marketing at ORock Technology and recognized expert in the field, shares how sales and marketing teams can stay aligned in a world where traditional activities such as live events and in-person networking have fallen to the wayside as everything has shifted to digital and virtual interactions.

​Alignment is critical for survival in today's market. In this interview, Rubin describes how teams need to collaborate and communicate as they make their way forward in this changing environment.

David Berteau sees the myriad ways the coronavirus pandemic from his perch as President and CEO of the Professional Services Council. In this episode of the Project 38 podcast, Berteau shares his thoughts on the health of the market and where it could go from here.

PSC is the leading voice of government services companies to federal agencies and lawmakers. Those firms' services cover a broad swath of the market and as such, the impact of the pandemic has ranged greatly from company to company. But one common thread they all share has been how to manage the impact on employees.

Major questions still remain to be answered and Berteau reviews these as the market looks at how it will arrive at a new normal and when that might be.

How do the widely-reported disruptions in global IT supply chains caused by COVID-19 impact both the federal government and its leading systems integrators? We take an “outside-in” approach to finding some answers in this episode with Michael Hong and Jeff Sorensen of Kearney’s public sector practice.

Why call it “outside-in” for this conversation? Federal agencies and their largest IT product and service providers all rely on the same supply chain network, one way or another, all the way from basic materials to the bundled solutions that integrators are responsible for providing. The COVID-19 crisis is causing a rethink of approaches to supply chain management and sourcing.

Given Kearney’s work with both commercial and public sector organizations, Hong and Sorensen both hear the questions their clients are asking and provide some possible answers that others are discovering. They also share some perspectives on how enterprises have bolstered their IT investments and what that means for the virtual workplace of today/tomorrow.

Three reporters from Washington Technology and our sibling publication FCW.com share insights on the impact the COVID-19 pandemic is having on business, policy and work in the government market.

A glance at what the pre-coronavirus world looked like for federal agencies quickly brings technology modernization back to the forefront, and that is where we pick up for this second of a two-part interview with ICF CEO John Wasson.