Enquirer Consulting Group

Turbo Federal Buyer Map

Kerry Gray | Turbo Federal | October 2026

As of 16 Oct 2026

Turbo Federal delivers AI transformation, application modernization, cybersecurity, case management and program management services to federal government customers, and AI edge security to local governments.

This page maps the kinds of organizations that buy that work and who usually raises the need and signs off inside each. Most of your buyers are government offices, so the page does not count them and names the roles instead.

Where your buyers sit

Each group ties to something your own site describes: AI and edge security for national and urban security, AI test and evaluation, case and records management and app modernization for federal agencies, smart city work for local governments, and the subcontract positions you hold on government-wide vehicles. Counts are United States firms, banded. Government offices are not counted here, since this table counts firms only.

Group	Organizations in the US	Under 20 staff	20 to 99	100 to 499	500 or more
Federal law enforcement, justice and homeland security components	no clean public count
Defense offices testing and fielding AI	no clean public count
Civilian agencies modernizing case, records and legacy systems	no clean public count
Cities and local governments running public safety and smart city programs	no clean public count
IT services and systems design firms (the pool your teaming partners come from)	about 130,000	about 120,000	about 8,300	about 2,300	about 1,300

US firm counts by industry code, banded deliberately.

Who signs off at each group

In a government office the need is usually raised by the program that owns the mission and awarded by a contracting officer. The technical leader decides whether the approach is acceptable.

Group	Raises the need	Signs off
Federal law enforcement, justice and homeland security components	Program manager, operations or intelligence unit lead	Component chief information officer (or the department's chief AI officer on AI work), contracting officer for the award
Defense offices testing and fielding AI	Program manager, test and evaluation lead	Program executive or office director, contracting officer for the award
Civilian agencies modernizing case, records and legacy systems	Program office owning the case workload, IT portfolio manager	Chief information officer, contracting officer for the award
Cities and local governments	Police or emergency management lead, city IT director	City chief information officer or city manager, with the purchasing office running the buy and council approval above a set amount
IT services and systems design firms	Capture manager, program manager on the prime contract	VP of business development or CEO, with the subcontracts manager

How a federal buy reaches you

Your site lists prime positions in the cybersecurity and IT professional services categories of the federal supply schedule and on a defense AI test and evaluation vehicle, plus subcontract positions on several government-wide vehicles.

That shapes who you talk to. Where you hold the prime, the conversation is with the program office and the contracting officer at the agency. Where you sit as a subcontractor, the first buyer is the prime that holds the contract and bids the task order, and the agency comes second.

The teaming route

A prime bidding a task order often needs a small business partner who brings a specific capability. Your site names a cleared team, Zero Trust and NIST and FISMA compliance work, and AI test and evaluation.

At those firms the person to reach is the capture manager or the head of business development working the bid, well before the proposal is due.

Ten people to start with

The people who usually sign at the groups above, one a company. Work emails and phone numbers checked on Oct 16, 2026.

Name	Role	Company	Where	Email	Phone
Brian Thomas	Chief Information Officer	City of Lawrence, KS	Kansas City, MO		+1 816 516 0709
Ed Althof	Interim Chief Information Officer	County of Orange	Santa Ana, CA	ed.althof@ocit.ocgov.com	+1 949 292 5420
Joel Binn	Titles Held: Director	City of New York	Scarsdale, NY		+1 516 519 9732
Wanyonyi Kendrick	Chief Information Officer	City of Jacksonville	Jacksonville		+1 904 631 9563
Johnathon Brett	Chief Information Officer	Voyager Technologies	Washington DC	johnathon.brett@voyagertechnologies.com	+1 706 564 2142
Dragan Kesic	Interim Chief Information Officer	Arizona Department of Corrections	Phoenix, AZ		+1 219 613 6500
Leo Barella	SVP, Chief Information Officer	Booz Allen Hamilton	Boston, MA		+1 312 560 3136
Sachin S Panicker	Chief AI Officer	Fulcrum Digital Inc	New York	sachin.panicker@fulcrumdigital.com
Dr. Ardrelle L. Evans	DOL-TAP Program Manager	U.S. Department of Labor	Omaha, NE		+1 254 781 6214
Imran Ahmed	Senior Program Manager	Dakota County	Minneapolis, MN		+1 612 426 1377

Where to start

Start from the vehicles you already hold

Agencies that buy cybersecurity and IT professional services through the schedule categories where you hold the prime can order from you directly. A short note to program managers and their technical leads about one named problem, with the vehicle in the first line, reaches the people who start that buy.

Reach primes before the bid, not after

Capture managers at the IT services firms that hold the larger vehicles you sub on build their teams months ahead of the larger task orders. Leading with the cleared team and the AI test and evaluation work gives them a reason to put you on the team early.

Take edge security to cities

Your solutions page names local governments and smart city technologies, alongside crowd monitoring and vehicle and traffic monitoring. The assessment your site offers is a clear first step for a city police, emergency management or IT lead.

Built from public federal registries and the company's own website, counts banded deliberately.

If a walk-through is useful, pick a time at cal.com/ecg.

Prepared by Matthew, matthew@enquirerconsulting.com.