The hidden costs and risks of hiring former government insiders
Proper coordination among HR, legal and BD is needed to understand post-employment restrictions and possible conflicts before they derail your contracting opportunities, write Scott Flesch and Joshau Drew of the law firm Miller & Chevalier. Current and former government employees have a wealth of knowledge and experience that provides a critical advantage in the private sector. […]
What companies get wrong about selling to DHS
Beth Cappello, a former Homeland Security Department deputy chief information officer, told our Power Breakfast audience who they should really be talking to and how to craft proposals that stand out. Leadership and priority changes at the Department of Homeland Security come with every new administration. For the Trump administrations, the focus has been on immigration […]
Veterans Affairs seeks input on its cloud buying future
The department wants to get a better handle on how it manages 757 applications and systems across two cloud environments. The Veterans Affairs Department is going back to the drawing board for ideas on how it can buy cloud computing services. In a sources sought notice posted Tuesday, VA describes its current inventory of 757 applications […]
ICF holds to its 2025 outlook as shutdown drags on
In talking with Wall Street, CEO John Wasson describes technology modernization efforts as continuing and programmatic work as more impacted at its largest federal client. ICF is holding to the financial outlook it presented at the start of this year and to expectations of a return to growth in 2026, even amid the bumpy ride 2025 […]
Transportation Command seeks zero-trust contract management system
TRANSCOM seeks a mature, cloud-enabled solution to replace legacy tools and support the military’s all-domain command strategy known as CJADC2. Transportation Command is getting closer to a contract award for a commercial, cloud-based IT management system that uses a zero-trust architecture to replace its fragmented legacy tools. The contract is part of the command’s efforts to […]
WT 360: Shutdown fallout, SAIC and market churn lead this episode’s agenda
Carten Cordell and Edward Graham, respectively managing editors at WT’s partner publications Government Executive and NextgovFCW, join Nick and Ross to go over all things shutdown in this episode’s first part. Then for part two, Nick and Ross unpack SAIC’s CEO transition against the backdrop of today’s market landscape. The government shutdown is now in week […]
