ManTech Leads the Way to Google Workspace

ManTech, a excessive tech, high-end engineering and cyber supplier to the federal authorities, is making the transfer to Google Workspace. The 54-year previous world tech firm, with the historical past and experience in bringing Digital to the Mission® with one of the best options and mission-focused know-how to the federal neighborhood, is partnering with Google Public Sector to maneuver its 9,800+ ManTech personnel to Google Workspace. This initiative empowers ManTech to carry best-in-class collaborative, cloud-based software program to their workforce and to each department of the federal authorities in supporting vital mission wants. 

To study extra about ManTech’s determination and course of behind Google Workspace, Troy Bertram, Managing Director of Google Public Sector companion gross sales, sat down with ManTech’s CIO/CTO Mike Uster and ManTech’s Enterprise Sector Normal Managers – David Hathaway (Protection); Adam Rudo (Intelligence) and Stephen Deitz (Federal Civilian).

Bertram: Thanks for taking the time to talk with me at present, Mike, David, Adam and Stephen. Are you able to inform us a bit extra about ManTech – what’s your organization’s mission – and the way does your group uniquely assist the federal government companies market?

Uster: As a trusted companion of the federal authorities, we specialise in refined know-how options starting from Cognitive Cyber to Analytics & AI, high-end digital engineering, Knowledge on the Edge and Enterprise Cloud – all essential to safeguarding nationwide safety and advancing the federal government’s core mission of reaching IT modernization.  

Deitz: Our dedication to nice expertise and modern options is vital to ManTech’s strategic goal of fixing authorities’s hardest challenges – successfully and cost-efficiently.

Bertram: What motivated ManTech to carry Google Workspace into its IT portfolio? 

Hathaway: Innovation is a part of our DNA. Actually, ManTech would be the first federal methods integrator shifting into Google Workspace. The timing of our adoption aligns to the Division of the Military and different authorities prospects shifting to Google Workspace. Finish Consequence:  Addressing our prospects’ mission wants in ways in which solely ManTech can.  

Deitz: We view Google Workspace as an essential addition to our preliminary work with Google Cloud, which delivers hyperscale analytics, excessive throughput and air-tight safety for businesses charged with safeguarding nationwide and homeland safety, in addition to assembly the know-how wants of Federal Civilian businesses that serve our citizenry.

Bertram: What had been the dangers (and rewards) you thought of with this migration?

Uster: Reward could be summarized in three phrases: simplicity, flexibility and interoperability. There’s additionally a wave of next-generation staff who grew up utilizing Google services like Gmail, Docs, and Sheets. The instruments are easy and intuitive. For ManTech customers – and authorities alike – there’s actually minimal coaching required. We imagine utilizing these Google instruments will assist us and the federal authorities appeal to and retain expertise whereas reaping value financial savings. 

Hathaway: The U.S. authorities spans some 440 businesses and 4 million workers. Over time, businesses have developed from the period of mainframe hardware or “huge iron” to PCs, laptops, the Web, electronic mail, smartphones and different advances – however at completely different paces, approaches and time frames. Google Workspace gives a wealthy number of options that uniformly advance IT and communications for every company – and assist guarantee interoperability between numerous businesses which may be tasked with integral targets and agendas in a safe surroundings. 

Bertram: How did safety issue into your determination making for utilizing Google Workspace?

Uster:  We knew any answer we adopted wanted to be FedRAMP Excessive. Now that Google Workspace is FedRAMP Excessive and has earned Division of Protection’s Impression Stage four (IL4) authorization, the choice to modify was simple. With Google Workspace being cloud-native, this additionally ensures that our customers and knowledge stay safe – irrespective of the place our customers are.

Bertram: Are you able to inform us extra about the way you made the transfer to Google Workspace?

Uster: ManTech’s philosophy and innovation method with regards to introducing new applied sciences to our prospects is “confirmed right here first.” We provide innovation and capabilities for our prospects’ nationwide and homeland safety missions, which we’ve constructed into our enterprise, have examined them, and gained vital perception into optimizing efficiency and safety.  

We began small – with lower than 100 Google Workspace licenses, which we arrange in a second ManTech community. We ran this pilot for about 18 months to ensure we labored out the kinks and will transition easily earlier than implementing extra broadly or recommending Google Workspace to our prospects. Our “examined right here first” method provides us firsthand data of the digital options we carry to our prospects, guaranteeing we carry one of the best choices to their environments. 

Bertram: We all know constructing cultures of innovation inside the ManTech workforce – and authorities extra broadly – is a vital initiative for you. How do you envision Google Workspace will make it easier to obtain this?

Deitz: Modern tradition is a signature attribute of each corporations. In ManTech’s case, it dates all the way in which again to the day we opened our doorways for enterprise– and has grown even stronger and broader through the years. Should you have a look at missions all over the world, ManTech is concerned; we assist U.S. authorities prospects in lots of international locations. The identical applies to Google and its management in know-how development in all places. We have now strengths that others cannot match.

Uster: Google Workspace’s cloud-native, versatile and intuitive instruments create frictionless environments for customers. And with no friction, persons are in a position to focus extra on innovating quite than determining software program. 

Bertram: As you talked about earlier, the U.S. Military lately deployed Google Workspace, procuring licenses for as much as 250,000 personnel.  How did the U.S. Military’s deployment affect your determination?

Hathaway: As a companion to authorities, and in my case the Division of Protection, ManTech’s aim is to be the place our prospects are – land, sea, air, house, cyber house and in all places in between. As a primary mover within the authorities contracting house just like the U.S. Military was within the authorities business, we’re proud to share that distinction. With each of us now being Google Workspace customers, we’re taking a look at how we are able to work extra collaboratively with the U.S. Military in a safe surroundings. Bringing our environments collectively provides us a geometrical accelerator to propel collaboration. 

Bertram: How will Google Workspace assist assist your enterprise progress and engagement inside the federal neighborhood?

Rudo:  Our partnership with Google is a vital a part of ManTech’s hybrid surroundings method. We intention to be adept in lots of productiveness software environments – and to ensure their reliability and safety by first testing it ourselves. 

Hathaway: ManTech’s work in Zero Belief is one instance. Our prospects belief our work on this space as a result of it’s been battle-tested right here at ManTech. The identical measure applies to Google Workspace.

Bertram: What recommendation do you might have for anybody main their very own transformation initiatives? And particularly, what recommendation do you might have for gaining buy-in and profitable adoption of Google Workspace?

Uster: Be daring and begin small. By no means settle – all the time go for one of the best, no matter it takes. ManTech and Google have proved themselves adept at succeeding in areas that others deem “Mission Not possible.” That’s what makes us particular to our prospects. That’s what has set ManTech aside from the business norm since our founding in 1968. 

Google Workspace is a confirmed software inside the industrial market and the general public sector. Now that it’s FedRAMP Excessive for the federal house, it’s a viable commodity for the federal authorities and protection contractors.  So purchase a small set of licenses and check out it out your self.

_{Particular due to: ManTech Normal Managers: David Hathaway – Protection Sector, Adam Rudo – Intelligence Sector, Stephen Deitz – Federal Civilian Sector}