Amtower Off-Center Federal News Network | Hubbard Radio

This week on Amtower Off Center, host Mark Amtower is joined by ACT-IAC CEO Dave Wennergren for a lively and wide-ranging discussion about ACT-IAC.
Topics include:

a brief history of ACT-IAC

the mission of the organization

professional development opportunities

committees and communities of interest

the ongoing events for the councils and the major annual events

award programs

small business participation

This week on Amtower Off Center, host Mark Amtower is joined by Peter Erickson of MoDev, producer of the GovAI Summit.
Topics discussed include:

the current evolutionary stepping point in technology that AI, ML and LLM represent

a little historical perspective on what brought us to this point, including earlier uses of voice recognition

the emergence of AI as a tech transformational event

key players in this emerging arena

and the scope of the upcoming GovAI Summit

 

Government proposal guru Carl Dickson joins host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center to discuss several recent topics Dickson has written about, including:

5 Ways to use AI to Improve proposals

14 ways to determine if your proposal is any good

How branding can hurt your proposals

10 things the customer might choose to do instead of accepting your offer.

 

This week on Amtower Off Center, host Mark Amtower is joined by Eileen Rivera, Federal MarCom leader and the author of Hard Talk: Confessions of an Accidental Marketing and Communications Professional.
Topics discussed include:

Why did you write Hard Talk?


Who is the audience

Dealing with unexpected situations that can impact a company's reputation

Lessons learned from the front lines of MarCom in the government market

Advice for would-be authors

This week on Amtower Off Center, host Mark Amtower is joined by fellow GovCon consultant Mike LeJeune of RSM Federal for a wide ranging discussion on branding and marketing in GovCon.
Topics include:

Defining your market niche

Being able to enunciate your market position in 90 seconds or less

Why your capabilities statement is not etched in stone

The power of social media in GovCon

Staying on the radar

This week on Amtower Off Center, host Mark Amtower is joined by Kevin Plexico, senior vice president of Information Solutions at Deltek, to discuss the latest Clarity Study.
Clarity is Deltek's annual study on trends and contractors perspectives of the government market.
Topics discussed include:

Companies attitudes and mindsets toward the government market

How this impacts their various internal functional areas

The differences in government spending of=ver the past few years

How DEI is impacting the market

Potential changes in the 8(a) program

The large opportunities, Alliant 3, OASIS+, SEWP VI and other large contracts impacting the flow of business opportunities