Interview with Brent Maravilla - A journey hacking federal government procurement
Channel: AGL (Now Technologists for the Public Good)
Date: 2020-02-11

In case you missed the last All-Members call on Jan. 23, 2020, the call featured an interview with Brent Maravilla, acquisition strategist for U.S. Digital Service. Brent spent more than 12 years working on procurement in the federal government. Currently, he is a procurement strategist with Rebellion Defense.

Listen to the 38-minute audio recording below. Not to miss points:

His changing mindset between past and future
Changing the process
Hacking the process
No one is showing up—taking ownership of the process and outcomes
Finding mentors and dealing with impostor syndrome
Being brave and taking risks
Forward-thinking: can federal procurement be considered a product with users?