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Modern GovCon: Getting Started in Government Contracting

The Insider's Guide to Thriving in the $700 Billion Federal Marketplace

Modern GovCon: Getting Started in Government Contracting is your hands-on guide to navigating the $755 billion U.S. government contracting landscape. Each year, millions of small businesses compete for a piece of these opportunities, but it's not about who makes the best product or who has the flashiest pitch. It's about knowing the rules, knowing where the doors open, and standing ready to step through them ahead of anyone else.

This goes beyond theory. It's written in an honest, straightforward voice and gives you real-world strategies, case studies, and step-by-step instructions so you can compete, win, and thrive selling to the government. You'll learn how to decode RFPs, find opportunities, leverage AI tools, and build long-term relationships with government clients - all while remaining committed to sustainable, long-term growth.

Whether you're a novice to GovCon or have been working within it for decades, Modern GovCon puts sense into why some companies consistently win and others struggle. You'll discover what sets repeat winners apart from the crowd and gain actionable insights that you can implement immediately.

This is not a typical guide to government contracting. It's a guide, advisor, and step-to-step guide to turning opportunity into reality - making your business thrive, become credible, and expand into new markets with confidence.

Mr. Anderson has been writing software since he was 11 years old, circa 1982. Starting on a Commodore PET CBM, working through Apple personal computers, DEC workstations, and CRAY super computers. During this time he taught himself several programming languages and invented some himself and sold software to the Veterans Administration.From 1990 to 1995 he attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he studied Nuclear Engineering and Computer Science. In 1995 he received his Bachelor's of Science in Mechanical Engineering with Nuclear Specialty.In 1993 Mr. Anderson received a SERS Scholarship to work at Los Alamos National Laboratory's X-Division. There he worked on a physics problem setup tool that integrated with one of the oldest computer codes still in operation today, MCNP. This radiation transport simulator was written by Albert Einstein, John Von Neumann, Robert Oppenheimer, and so many more.During his short tenure as a staff member at Los Alamos he continued his work on problem setup automation, worked on the manned Mars mission, and was one of the authors of an R&D100 finalist entry based upon his work on problem setup automation.He left Los Alamos and moved to San Diego to work at BBN, the company that built the ARPANet. There he worked on the GCCS (Global Command and Control System) and the BWAD (Biological Warfare Anchor Desk).After BBN he worked at a startup called Praja where he was the project lead on FOX Sports NFL GameTracker 2000.In 2000, Mr. Anderson went out on his own again, starting Beyond Ordinary So􀅌ware Solutions. He landed a gig with a local insurance company (YouZoom) and helped them to create one of the first online quote/bind platforms for car insurance, property insurance, commercial, and life insurance.In 2013 he took over maintenance of the Cocos-2D XNA open source game framework and ported it to every game platform except SONY Playstation. He's written several mobile platform games, went back to school to get a Master's in Computer Science from Georgia Tech specializing in Machine Learning. He was a finalist in the 2021 XPrize Pandemic ResponseWhile at Beyond Ordinary Software Solutions, he wrote all of their flagship products. He created the AskUncleSam.AI and AskCyberSam.AI services, both of which use modern day frontier AI models for making GovCon easier. He created the GoNist800.com service to make NIST-800 compliance self-assessments easier and faster. He created the HyperQ learning framework that has been used to solve a variety of esoteric problems using a unique tabular reinforcement learning framework. He wrote a paper concerning the statistical nature of the Powerball lottery system and created reliable prediction algorithms for the three major US lotteries. Mr. Anderson has been a continuous contributor to software engineering and computer science. He's a lifetime senior member of the ACM, a lifetime member of the ANS, a lifetime member of Tau Beta Pi, and holds CISSP, CCP, RP, and GDPR-F certifications.