Views from the Corner Office

Federal News Network's Tom Temin, anchor of the daily Federal Drive with Tom Temin, interviewed John Goodman, chief executive of Accenture Federal, about challenges to an electronic marketplace for federal buying, handling complex government projects, and artificial intelligence.

Lynn Dugle, the CEO, chairman and president of Engility, said the security clearance backlog is limiting their ability to bid on contracts and creating a challenge for all of industry

Mehul Sanghani, the chief executive officer and founder of Octo Consulting, said the two-year budget deal offered some much-needed certainty to the federal contracting sector.

LaJuanna Russell, the president and CEO of Business Management Associates, said she's seeing agencies shift more to focusing on their customers and outcomes instead of outputs.

The executives from KarSun Solutions discussed why the IT modernization effort is helping bring innovation to the federal procurement market. Sundar Vaidyanothan CEO and co-founder, Karthic Mecheri, co-founder and chief architect and Terry Miller, the chief operating officer KarSun Solutions sat down with Federal News Radio's executive editor Jason Miller at the station's studios in Washington, D.C.

John Wood, CEO of Telos, said the administration's focus on cloud, cybersecurity and IT modernization make it a good time to be a government contractor.

David Wajsgras, a Raytheon Company vice president and president of the Intelligence, Information and Services business, sat down with Federal News Radio's executive editor Jason Miller at his office in Dulles, Virginia.

Angela Nordstrom, vice president of federal for NIC, said agencies have a rare opportunity to modernize their systems using a transaction-based approach.

Dan Helfrich, a principal with Deloitte consulting who leads the federal government services practice, sat down with Federal News Radio's executive editor Jason Miller at his office in Arlington, Virginia, on Views from the Corner Office

Dan Keefe, the president and COO of ManTech's Mission Solutions and Services Group, said agencies are more interested than ever on how to save money and modernize IT.