Amtower Off Center

Hosted by nationally-known speaker and consultant Mark Amtower,  Amtower Off-Center highlights the good, the bad, the ugly and the just plain silly of doing business in the government market. Every week experts join Mark for a lively discussion of current issues facing the government contractor community.


  • Digital marketing pioneer and Evalueserve Vice President Geoff Livingston, joins host Mark Amtower on this week’s Amtower Off Center to discuss artificial intelligence and ChatGPT.
    April 24, 2023
  • Hansang Bae, Public Sector chief technologist for Zscaler, joins host Mark Amtower on this week’s Amtower Off Center to discuss zero trust, and why its adoption has been so slow.
    April 24, 2023
  • GovCon guru and attorney Alan Chvotkin, partner at Nichols Liu, joins host Mark Amtower on this week’s Amtower Off Center to share his key rules of government contracting.
    March 28, 2023
  • Mark Krzysko, president of the Association for Federal Information Resources Management, joins host Mark Amtower on this week’s Amtower Off Center, to discuss what his organization is doing for the GovCon community.
    March 21, 2023
  • David Shea, director of the Office of Charge Card Management at the General Services Administration joins host Mark Amtower on this week’s Amtower Off Center to discuss the federal SmartPay program. 
    March 14, 2023
  • Kevin DeSanto, managing director and co-founder of KippsDeSanto, joins host Mark Amtower on this week’s Amtower Off Center to discuss how mergers and acquisitions in GovCon have been impacted by the pandemic.
    February 13, 2023
  • Washington Technology Editor in Chief Nick Wakeman joins host Mark Amtower on this week’s Amtower Off Center to discuss the state of NITAAC & CMMC, mergers and acquisitions, and CIO-SP4.
    January 30, 2023
  • This week on Amtower Off Center, Naveen Krishnamurthy, CEO of RIVA Solutions, joins host Mark Amtower for a wide ranging discussion covering: The RIVA Story Building the staff- recruiting and retention RIVA’s culture Mentor-mentee program…
    January 19, 2023
  • Skyway Acquisitions CEO Kevin Jans joins host Mark Amtower on this week’s Amtower Off Center to discuss RFP, CPARS and other issues affecting government contracting officers.
    January 11, 2023
  • Amtower is joined by Sanjt Ganguli, Vice president, Transformation Strategy and Field CTO of Zscaler. They discussed: – Zscalers FedRamp authorizations – the evolution of the need for Zero trust architectures – the new book…
    December 1, 2022
  • Allen Federal Business Partners President Larry Allen joins host Mark Amtower on this week’s Amtower Off Center for a wide ranging discussion of how inflation, climate change and the upcoming election will affect contractors in…
    October 26, 2022
  • Marsha Lindquist, president of Granite Leadership Strategies and a fellow at both APMP and NCMA, joins host Mark Amtower on this week’s Amtower Off Center  to discuss her book, Secrets of Strategic Pricing for Government…
    October 5, 2022
  • Stephanie Geiger, executive vice president and co-founder of Government Marketing University, joins host Mark Amtower on this week’s Amtower Off Center to discuss the founding of GMarkU and the upcoming GAIN conference in October.
    September 29, 2022
  • Peter Lierni of Solutioneering joins host Mark Amtower on this week’s Amtower Off Center to discuss the high turnover in business development and capture personnel and other issues impacting the procurement/RFP process.
    September 6, 2022