The "SmallsCast" Podcast

The "SmallsCast" Podcast

This podcast is designed for Small Government Contractors, Service Providers, and Manufacturers, as part of the Government Contractor Ecosystem, connecting people, organizations, and resources

Episodes

October 13, 2025 50 mins

Listen in as your host Just Nate talks with Mike Crandal, CEO and co-founder of Digital Beachhead.


  • The Urgency of CMMC 2.0: November 10th is the date for Article 48 implementation, making CMMC a mandatory default clause in all new DoD solicitations. Many small businesses are panicked because they didn't believe it would actually happen.

  • A History Lesson in Compliance: The discussion traces the evolution from DFARS 7012 t...

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Listen in as your host Just Nate and Greg talk with Dr. Matt Hortt about the amazing Library located in Greeley, CO.

The Evolution of Libraries and the Link Facility: Dr. Hortt discusses the massive evolution of libraries over the past 25 years, moving away from things like stamped due date cards and VHS/DVDs towards online streaming services and specialized community resources. The new facility, located in Greeley, is called Link ...

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September 29, 2025 59 mins

Listen in as your host Just Nate and Greg talk with Bill Edwards, Director of CUAS Operations and Training, COLONEL, U.S. Army (Retired). Bill is a wealth of knowledge when it comes to counter UAS.

Bill Edwards has developed a sequence of training courses designed to simplify the complex CUAS market:

1. C-Suite and Leader Course: To ensure executive understanding of capital investment needs.

2. Introduction to CounterUAS Technologies ...

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September 15, 2025 51 mins

Listen in as your host Just Nate and Greg talk with Chris Hutson, Director of Business Development at Prime Partners.

Prime Partners specializes in providing skilled labor on demand. We take pride in finding the best talent for our partnering companies based on their hiring needs and requirements.

As an Executive Search Services Company, we provide skilled talent to partnering companies to support existing human resource teams and th...

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September 8, 2025 54 mins

Listen in as your host Just Nate, DK and GG talks with Sarah Wood, Director of Small Business Development Center (SBDC) Serving Boulder County.

The team talk about how SBDC can help both new and old companies. Please see all the upcoming events below:

Ascent - Customer Discovery  (only promote through September 4th)
Virtual
September 4th - 18th
9 am - 11  am
Applications accepted until filled: https://sbdc.colorado.gov/pr...

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September 1, 2025 44 mins

Listen in as your host Just Nate, DK and guest GG talks with Mike Shanley, Founder and CEO of GovDiscovery AI.

Mike Shanley – Founder and CEO, GovDiscovery AI

Mike Shanley is a recognized thought leader with over 20 years of experience in federal business development and government contracting strategy. As the Founder and CEO of GovDiscovery AI, he leads the company’s mission to accelerate growth for federal contractors by pro...

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August 22, 2025 21 mins

Listen in as your host Just Nate talks with Josh Wills, Peer Navigator with Mt. Carmel Veterans Service Center

Mt. Carmel Veterans Service Center is dedicated to improving the lives of our Military and Veteran communities by providing support and services in a variety of areas.


Upcoming Mt. Carmel events -

Join us for this month's VBC networking event.

Looking forward to seeing everyone at this month's event.27 Aug, 5:30pm...

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August 18, 2025 62 mins

Listen in as your host Just Nate and guest host Greg "the lover" Glover talks with Eric Kronman from Fluet.  

Fluet is the premier law firm for the national security, aerospace, defense, and intelligence sectors.



Y-Combinator for SAFE forms: https://www.ycombinator.com/documents

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Listen in as your host Just Nate talks with our good buddy Russ Long from Long Capture.  It has been over a year since Russ was last on our podcast and things are rockin in the Capture business.  Just Nate and Russ have fun this go round and discuss everything from SBIR Phase I,II and III to include pricing, STTRs, Catalyst Campus and Long Capture "World Wide"  The wacky dual just simply have fun and get to know one anoth...

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Listen in as your host Just Nate talks with Peter Hancock, the President and Founder of Professional Employment Group (PEG) of Colorado.

Professional Employment Group of Colorado is a regional recruiting company with a national presents from coast to coast. Its full recruiting and support staff site on sight in Denver and Colorado Springs. They specialize in providing talent to the private and public sector in the IT, engineering, ...

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Listen in as your host Just Nate talk with Francis Hoang, a managing partner at the Fluet Law Firm.


Fluet is a unique national security focused law firm, Fluet attorneys understand high growth, high risk environments. Our diverse backgrounds in law, business, charitable organizations, the military, and government service, as well as our deep familiarity with operating in highly regulated environments, uniquely positions us to ...

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January 1, 2024 44 mins
Listen in as your host Just Nate and the one and the only co-host DK is back to chat. This episode was recorded right before X-mas 2023 but will be our fist episode of Season 5 in 2024. This episode the dual speak to the team from GovIRG. govIRG provides back-office business solutions and audit support for government contractors. We specialize in providing “Been There Done That” guidance to small and medium size businesses in Ac...
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Listen in as your host Just Nate and the one and the only co-host DK is back to chat.

The dashing duo are talking with Chris Gorog of New Cyber Frontier again about the latest and greatest on Cyber Security. We cuss and discuss the past present and future of cyber.

To find out more about New Cyber Frontier, please check them out here: ⁠https://newcyberfrontier.podbean.com/

To find out more about the Smalls or become a member, plea...

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Listen in as your host Just Nate and the one and the only co-host DK is back to chat.

DK is up in Buena Vista sitting in the hot springs as we discuss what the heck he is doing. DK is up at the 2023 Mountain West UAS 11th UAS Roundup conference scheduled for September 17th and 18th, 2023. The Drone Training Park is located west of the Buena Vista Airport, off Gregg Drive, SE of the Rodeo Grounds: 38.818652, – 106.155528

The Drone ...

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Listen in as your host Just Nate and the one and the only co-host DK is back to chat with old friends. We are speaking to Matt Betzmer, the president of Defense Management Company, Inc (DMC Inc)  Matt walks us through his journey of starting up his own DoD firm.  Just like the last time we had Matt on the show, he does not hold back on this episode, he tells it like it is, the good and the bad. DMC now has multiple contracts worth...

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September 11, 2023 33 mins

Listen in as your host Just Nate and the one and the only co-host DK is back to chat with great new friends. We are speaking to Gregg Walsh representing the Space Force Association (SFA) and their big event coming up. THE INAUGURAL SPACEPOWER CONFERENCE

DECEMBER 12TH-13TH 2023 ORLANDO FLORIDA

Your opportunity to meet the people shaping the future of the Space Domain.

Mark your calendars! The inaugural SFA Spacepower Conference is...

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September 4, 2023 39 mins

Listen in as your host Just Nate speaks to the Founder/Owner of Aronetics, Mr. John Aron!

IN AN AGE of increasing digital interdependence threatened by nonstop nightly news of breaches and hacks, getting a handle on digital security matters more than ever. However, it seems that almost everyone has their own threat model — and their set of concerns unique to themselves. 

The threat is omnipresent eerily similar to relativity, ever...

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Listen in as your host Just Nate and the one and the only co-host DK is back to chat with great new friends. We are speaking to the NDIA Young Professionals. Dominic Archuleta, Bernadette Maisel and Mairead Levison.

The NDIA Rocky Mountain Chapter is very focused on encouraging young professionals to participate in chapter events, run for chapter offices and to network with some of the chapter’s 1,400 members. If you have ideas ...

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Listen in as your host Just Nate chats with a great new friend, Rod Goossen

The core of the RoGO solution is our proprietary DropBlock technology. With DropBlock you can:

  • GPS track human and non-human First Responder assets working in remote, cellular-denied areas from the RoGO web portal. Now, Incident Command can know where First Responders are and who is in possible danger. This feature of marking & tracking wildfire r...
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Listen in as your host Just Nate and Dennis talk with Jason Putnam and Ben Avicolli from The Stratagem Group.

https://www.stratagemgroup.com/index.html

Listen in as Jason and Ben talk about how their business is helping not only the government customer but how they treat their employees. Jason the CEO put's it best, "We work hard to allo...

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