Shutdown fallout, SAIC and market churn lead this episode’s agenda

Update: 2025-11-03

Description

The government shutdown is now in week number four, which gives us a checkpoint to gauge the impacts so far and those to come for federal agency operations.

Part one of this two-part episode sees Carten Cordell and Edward Graham, respectively managing editors at WT’s partner publications Government Executive and NextgovFCW, join Nick and Ross to go over the shutdown from every angle.

Carten and Ed detail what operations are still ongoing inside government, who is still working, the impacts of the shutdown and key checkpoints to watch out for ahead of the eventual reopening.

Then in part two, Nick and Ross unpack the CEO transition at Science Applications International Corp. and put it into context against a market landscape that looks very different here in October versus what it was in January.

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House Dems demand furloughs end for nuclear security agency

Top cyber lawmaker wants answers on CISA workforce reductions

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CyberCorps talent pipeline buckles under Trump hiring freezes

SAIC parts ways with CEO Toni Townes-Whitley

Leonardo DRS CEO William Lynn to retire after 14-year run at the company

Booz Allen cuts more jobs, lowers outlook amid funding slowdowns