Deltek’s Kevin Plexico Wins 7th Wash100 Award
for Industry-Leading Market Intelligence
Executive Mosaic is delighted to announce Kevin Plexico, Deltek senior vice president of information solutions, as a 2026 Wash100 Award winner for his work providing industry-leading market intelligence and information to the GovCon community.
Plexico has spent his 33-year career in the information services space, having started his career at Input before becoming vice president for information solutions at Deltek. As SVP for information solutions, Plexico is responsible for leading the sector’s largest team of analysts focused on the $1 trillion GovCon industry while providing unique and industry-leading content to GovCons and architecture, engineering and construction firms.
Make your voice heard in the 2026 Wash100 popular vote competition! Vote for Kevin Plexico and other top GovCon executives now at Wash100.com.
“Kevin’s recognition as a 2026 Wash100 Award winner marks an extraordinary distinction—his seventh consecutive honor—and underscores the lasting influence he brings to the GovCon industry,” said Jim Garrettson, Executive Mosaic CEO and founder of the Wash100 Award. “At Deltek, Kevin has become one of the industry’s most trusted voices on market intelligence, trends and data-driven insight.
“His ability to translate complex market dynamics into clear and actionable guidance helps GovCon professionals make smarter, more strategic decisions. Kevin’s consistency and expertise continue to set the standard for insight and leadership across the GovCon marketplace,” Garrettson continued.
Come meet Plexico for yourself at the Potomac Officers Club’s 2026 GovCon Executive Leadership Summit on Feb. 26! He’s moderating the “Leading the Shift: CEOs at the Crossroads of Innovation and Integration” panel discussion. Sign up now!
Why Is Kevin Plexico Winning a 2026 Wash100 Award?
Plexico has consistently demonstrated GovCon market intelligence leadership, and product and technology innovation, both in 2026 and over his career. As such, he has long held the distinction of being one of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Experts; he authored a GCE column in December forecasting what GovCon professionals should expect in federal, state and local contracting trends in 2026. This included valuable information such as competitive dynamics, acquisition policy shifts and regional spending drivers, further cementing Deltek’s thought leadership in the sector.
Deltek’s GovWin IQ 2026 Contracting Opportunities Report
He also helped shape Deltek’s GovWin IQ 2026 Top Federal Contracting Opportunities report. This highlighted major federal spending programs, such as the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Community Care Network Next Gen, the General Services Administration’s OASIS Plus, and trend data that GovCon firms use for business development planning.
He’s been a leader in explaining how artificial intelligence can benefit contractors. Plexico was connected with major enhancements to Deltek’s GovWin IQ platform, including AI-powered GovWin IQ capabilities. He announced and explained in June 2025 key upgrades that embed AI into GovWin IQ, such as the Ask Dela Opportunity Chat. This is a natural-language question-and-answer bot for government opportunities.
“We’re not just improving proposal development, we’re reinventing it by combining deep industry expertise with powerful emerging tech,” Plexico said in the article.
How AI Can Help Proposal Development
He also dove into GovWin IQ’s new AI-generated proposal outlines, which are automated frameworks to help GovCon teams draft proposal responses faster and more efficiently. Plexico has spoken publicly about how GovWin IQ’s AI capabilities are transforming the way contractors prepare proposals, making them faster and more competitive in procurement bids.
Plexico is a standard bearer in forecasting GovCon trends and issuing strategy, helping clients interpret shifting government acquisition policies, budget pressures, small business set-asides and market entry tactics. This amplifies Deltek’s brand as a go-to GovCon insights provider.
Presenting at Top Conferences
Plexico regularly presents at high-profile industry conferences and events, including Potomac Officers Club’s 2026 GovCon Executive Leadership Summit on Feb. 26. He’ll participate in the “Leading the Shift: CEOs at the Crossroads of Innovation and Integration” panel discussion. Sign up today!
He wrote an insightful analysis in June 2025 explaining five themes in Deltek’s market-pacing Clarity Contracting Industry Study. Plexico dove into how machine learning and AI are still among the leading technology priorities for GovCon digital strategy investments. More companies, he said, also expected to fall under the Pentagon’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification requirements since they were finalized in late 2024.
Who Is Kevin Plexico?
Plexico played a consequential role in helping Input grow from a boutique market research firm to the industry-leading provider of industry information to GovCon professionals. He leads research, analysis, and content creation for federal, state, local, education and Canadian government market data at Deltek. Plexico has a BBA from James Madison University and a MBA in information solutions from the University of Maryland.
What Are Kevin Plexico’s Recent Career Achievements?
He provided industry guidance in mid-2025 about the Trump administration’s focus on consolidating contracts to streamline the procurement process and its impact on value-added resellers—or VARs—and small businesses. Plexico explained that while the administration planned to cut out middlemen like VARs by encouraging original equipment manufacturers to sell directly to the government, many OEMs would rather work through VARs because of contracting challenges.
“A lot of these companies that are selling through those VARs, they don’t want their own contracts,” Plexico said. “They don’t want to go through the work of getting a GSA schedule because it’s a pain in the neck.”
Plexico in 2025 authored the definitive guide to winning government contracts in the era of AI. Here he provided best practices for each stage of the proposal process, with recommendations for how to create winning proposals. Plexico also examined how generative AI is changing proposal management while emphasizing where human expertise and experience remained a top priority.
What Does Kevin Plexico’s Success Mean for GovCon?
Plexico’s seventh-consecutive Wash100 Award signals that the GovCon industry’s leading source of actionable business intelligence, information and advice will continue helping contracting professionals arm themselves with the tools they need to win government business.
Congratulations to Kevin Plexico on his 2026 Wash100 Award!
Click here to cast your ballot for Plexico in the 2026 Wash100 popular vote competition.