In this interview Professional Services Council President and CEO David Berteau shares what he is hearing from industry on the impact of the government shutdown and steps contractors should be taking now to get ready for when the government reopens. Whenever that is.

Washington Technology Senior Staff Writer Ross Wilkers joins Editor Nick Wakeman in a review of the major trends and issues driving today's market, including major acquisitions, procurement trends and what JEDI says about contracting today.

Whether you are talking FTS 2001, Networx or the EIS contract, few people know the ins and outs of the government telecommunications market like Diana Gowen, the leader of MetTel’s federal business and a veteran of CenturyLink, Qwest, MCI and AT&T.

Deloitte's Dan Helfrich shares his views on how the migration to the cloud, blockchain, machine learning and IT modernization will spell the end of traditional IT services. The changes will impact business models, customer relationship, partnerships and hiring for the next decade and beyond. Helfrich shares how Deloitte approaches these trends and how the key to success will be successfully combining people and technology assets. To maintain and gain market share companies need to master that combination.

In Episode 5 of the Project 38 podcast we talk to Steve Harris, senior vice president and general manager of Dell EMC about IT modernization and digital transformation and how the market is changing for primes, their partners and most importantly their customers.

In episode 4, we talk to John Wood, CEO of Telos Corp. as we continue our exploration of innovation and disruption in the government market. John shares his views on the challenges and obstacles to bringing innovation to the government market. He brings nearly 30 years of government contracting experience and holds the the point of view that the challenges to innovation aren't about the technology but the culture and the vested interests that resist change.

In this episode, we explore disruption in the market and the keys to managing and thriving through times of great change with our guest is David Kriegman, former executive with SRA International and author of Zero to A Billion, the story of how SRA become a government contractor with more than $1 billion in annual revenue.

In this episode, our guest is John Hillen, former CEO of Sotera Defense Solutions and current Executive in Residence and Professor of Practice at George Mason University’s School of Business. In our conversation we explore the evolution of the market and how the changes of the last decade are accelerating competition and creating a more open and transparent market as we move forward.

Our guest is Stan Soloway, former president and CEO of the Professional Services Council and founder of Celero Strategies. Soloway sees a market at the crossroads with new ways of doing business emerging and many traditional government contractors being challenged to change their ways or be left behind.

Soloway brings a perspective from both inside government based on his time inside government as a high-raking Defense Department official as well as his decade and a half of leading PSC and being the voice for industry.

The challenge for customer and contractor is grasping the technological disruptions in the market and understanding what that means for their customers and employees as well as the future.