Innovating for Mission Impact.

We bring a passion for high performance to every project, no matter the scale, from IT governance and management, to emerging technology innovation and integration.

To our clients, every need is pressing and every outcome is critical. Our expertise spans the globe, with localized commitment for each customer.

Markon is a leader in innovation, including the areas of technology and program management, acquisition support, strategic communication, technology scouting, and private sector engagement to federal technology programs across the national security community.

We provide advice to mitigate risks, industry best practices to ensure you’re getting top-notch quality, and tools of the trade to help you execute a successful project.

You look at the direction the direction the world is going, the threats that we face, and innovation is going to be its own competitive domain —  almost a battlefield. We’ve got to win the innovation battle…It’s not enough to develop and procure systems anymore. We’ve got to get in the business of of buying ideas and generating ideas.

Dr. Will Roper, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics

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Our Capabilities

Enterprise IT Governance & Management Enterprise IT Governance & Management We draw our IT governance and management expertise from experience as a trusted adviser to some of the largest and most complex agencies. Learn More
Emerging-Technology-Innovation-and-Integration Emerging Technology Innovation & Integration We help solve the challenge of innovating and integrating new technologies into complex organizations and secure environments. Learn More

The Markon Advantage for Technology Management

  • Working experience at five unique innovation and enterprise technology directorates in the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community
  • Trains and supports clients across the technology discovery, incubation, and deployment process
  • Certified staff in Agile Scrum, IDEO’s Human-Centered Design, Bright Idea Platform Management, Six Sigma, AWS Cloud, Eureka Innovation Engineering, PMI, and Lean Start-up
  • Implements best practices from across the Defense Intelligence Ecosystem to expedite tech integration into secured space
  • Ability to translate mission requirements and provide metrics-driven results
  • Partners with cutting-edge collaboration tools (CRM, idea management platform, Venture Capital research, decision analytics)

Talent Spotlight

Brenda Metzger
Technology Solution Lead

Brenda has more than 30 years of experience providing program management and IT lifecycle support to the Intelligence Community and Federal clients. Her expertise includes managing IT development, roadmaps, prototyping, and identifying solutions. 

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Chris Stevenson
Technology Solution SME

Chris Stevenson fosters a culture of innovation through a human-centered design thinking approach to problem-solving, lean startup experimentations to market adoption, and agile product development to meet complex yet dynamic mission requirements. As a Certified Scrum Master® with knowledge of Agile best practices, Chris utilizes nearly two decades of acquisition, systems engineering, and IT project management experience to help develop innovation leadership. He coaches and assists clients to understand, articulate, find, streamline, create new value, and redefine their mission space. Chris has an MBA from the University of Maryland and a BS in Business Administration from Bucknell University.

Jim Baldo, PhD
Technology Solution SME

Jim Baldo's engineering career spans over 40 years which has provided him with a broad foundation of knowledge and experience as a data analytics engineer. He has worked across a variety of engineering domains including software development, data engineering, machine learning, data architecture, and cloud services engineering. The environment that he works in has been greatly affected by big data which has resulted in utilizing new technologies and analytical methods. His engineering team leadership skills have been instrumental in interacting with business owner needs and expectations as well as managing, galvanizing, and synergizing teams of talented engineers.

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Our experts maintain industry-leading certifications and accreditations to provide you with industry best practices.

Our credentials include:

  • Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
  • Project Management Professional (PMP)®
  • Certified Scrum Master® (CSM)®
  • IDEO Human-Centered Design Certification
  • Brightidea® Platform Certification
  • Lean Six Sigma
  • Disruptive Strategy Certification
  • Java Developer Certification
  • Adobe Dreamweaver Web Design Certificate
  • AWS Cloud
  • Eureka Innovation Engineering
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