About the Insider
Six years ago, we began to deliver independent insight into business management strategies and best practices of government contractors. Our paid subscribers have been contractor executives, as well as investors. We try to answer the “so what?” question about the strategic choices of companies and the policy and investment climates that affect them. Recently, we made the Insider Web-based and free.
Insider content. The Insider delivers expert commentary, insight, and advice based on experience, analysis, and fact. We are not a typical media outlet and leave transactional news and controlled releases of company and government news and opinion to others. Also, we accept no advertising and do not sponsor industry events, awards, and the like.
Insider sources.Analysis and views of the Insider are heavily influenced by continuing contact with managers and executives in contracting firms (almost always not for attribution), interaction with professionals who advise companies on legal, financial, and business strategy, government customers, and members of the oversight community and nonprofits with an interest in Federal contracting. We also benefit from reading the coverage of the government and industry in the mainstream media and the controlled-circulation and Web-based trade press.
Who prepares the Insider? Michael Lent is the founder, editor and publisher of Government Services Insider, which began publication in January 2004. A few months earlier, he left Booz Allen Hamilton after a long career mainly in the government services business, but also with commercial clients in telecommunications, agribusiness, and aerospace. Michael was one of the firm’s most senior specialists in organizational and operations improvements for Federal clients. The engagements he sold and the teams he led helped clients to rethink organizational strategy, design and implement restructuring, identify and make cost reductions, resolve IT management issues, plan outsourcing, execute process improvements, and manage complex acquisitions. His significant clients included the Department of Justice, especially the FBI, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Department of the Treasury, especially the IRS, the Departments of the Army and Navy, Defense Logistics Agency, AID, and many other clients.
Previously, Michael was with a Federally Funded R& D Center. Earlier, he served with the intelligence element of the Fourth Infantry Division in Vietnam. He received the A.B. degree in government from Columbia College of Columbia University and an M.A. in international studies from the University of California at Berkeley.
He lives and work in Washington DC and can be reached at mlent@gsinsider.com
Other contributors have, and will continue to appear under their own bylines. The Insider is pleased to have as a continuing columnist Alan Chvotkin, executive vice president and counsel of the Professional Services Council. Government, industry, and other observers in the federal acquisition community recognize Alan as one of the top experts on acquisition policy and regulation. His columns address how companies should interpret new developments and shape their business approach in light of statutory and regulatory change.
Michael Lent | 
January 19, 2010 6:19 pm
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