Government & Utilities
Independent technology governance for state agencies, local governments, and the utilities that keep them running.
WHY THIS WORK
Engineered for the agencies that answer to councils, courts, and the public.
PEDIGREE
200+ YEARS PUBLIC-SECTOR
Combined founder and advisory experience across federal, state, local, tribal, and utilities technology programs.
DEPTH
COURT-DEFENSIBLE WORK
Every recommendation engineered to survive IG inquiry, council review, AG investigation, or procurement protest.
INTEGRITY
100% VENDOR-NEUTRAL
No resale agreements. No referral fees. Loyalty runs to the agency, not the vendor stack.
Built for the realities of government operations and public infrastructure.
Government technology decisions happen inside a unique web of constraints: procurement law, multi-year capital budgets, cross-administration continuity, public records obligations, and political environments where every vendor selection is subject to scrutiny. But it is not just city halls and state offices. The same technology challenges extend to every public utility and infrastructure agency, Street & Bridge, Parks & Recreation, Power & Light, Wastewater Management, and Public Works, organizations that depend on software platforms, dispatch systems, land mobile radio, and cellular communications to keep communities safe and services running.
Sentinel works across the full spectrum of government and public utility operations: advising boards, committees, and elected leadership at the city, county, and state level while also providing hands-on managed technology services, from websites and citizen alert systems to server rooms, cybersecurity programs, and network infrastructure. We also serve tribal governments navigating the intersection of sovereignty, federal funding, and modern technology needs.
The challenge we solve.
Government and public utility technology environments are among the most complex in any industry. Procurement follows strict protocols, RFPs are scored against published rubrics, evaluations are subject to public records requests, and every decision must be defensible to a council, commission, or oversight body. Meanwhile, public works, utilities, and infrastructure agencies are running mission-critical dispatch systems, land mobile radio networks, and field operations software that cannot tolerate downtime, yet are often maintained by skeleton IT staffs stretched across multiple departments.
Sentinel understands both sides of this equation. Our advisory work is structured to survive the scrutiny of public records requests, political transitions, and audit cycles. And our managed services capability means we do not just advise, we can operate alongside your teams, managing server rooms, maintaining secure networks, keeping citizen-facing systems online, and ensuring that radio, dispatch, and communications infrastructure stays reliable.
Capabilities tuned to public-sector technology programs.
Government is not one discipline.
Each public-sector environment has its own statutory profile, procurement reality, and operational tempo. Sentinel structures engagements around the discipline, not the other way around.
State Agencies
Strategic technology planning, modernization advisory, and procurement governance for state-level departments and authorities operating large, complex technology portfolios.
Learn More →Local Government
Counties, cities, and special districts navigating the same technology decisions as much larger organizations, but with smaller teams, tighter budgets, and higher visibility.
Learn More →Tribal Governments
Technology governance for tribal nations navigating the intersection of sovereignty, federal funding mechanisms (BIA, IHS, USDA), and modern infrastructure needs, including broadband, public safety communications, and records management systems.
Learn More →Public Utilities & Critical Infrastructure
Water, wastewater, power, street and bridge, parks and recreation, and public works agencies navigating OT/IT convergence, dispatch and field operations software, communications infrastructure, and SCADA-adjacent system modernization.
Learn More →Courts & Judicial Technology
Case management systems, electronic filing, court analytics platforms, and the integration discipline that connects courts to law enforcement records, jail management systems, and public safety dispatch operations across jurisdictions.
Learn More →Built for the realities of public-sector decision-making.
Most consultancies are optimized for private-sector velocity. Sentinel is built for public-sector defensibility, the kind that survives a council meeting, a public records request, and a change of administration.
Co-founder Jason Floyd has served on City Council and brings direct local government leadership experience to every engagement
Co-founder Justin Scott began his career in Colorado state government and served as a consultant and program manager on a major technology modernization program for Colorado's largest county
Advisory board member with 20+ years in city government offices, currently serving as City Mayor
Collectively, our leadership team brings extensive experience with local, county, and state government structure, budgets, and IT operations
Public-sector procurement fluency: RFPs, scoring rubrics, evaluation defensibility, and grant compliance
Work product structured to survive public records requests, political transitions, and audit cycles
Managed services capability: we do not just advise, we operate, maintain, and support critical government IT and communications infrastructure
Familiar with capital budgets, fiscal-year cycles, and multi-year program planning
Cross-jurisdictional experience: state, local, special district, tribal, and federal
CJIS, FedRAMP, StateRAMP, and other public-sector compliance frameworks
Independent governance layer that makes vendor decisions defensible to councils, boards, and commissioners
Recent thinking from the field.
Why Most Government RFPs Are Written by the Wrong People
The agencies that consistently get good outcomes from procurement keep ownership of requirements internal, and bring consultants in for governance, not authorship.
Read More → ModernizationLegacy Replacement Is Not a Project, It Is a Decade
The agencies treating modernization as a 12-month initiative are setting themselves up to fail. The ones treating it as a sustained governance discipline are succeeding.
Read More → Critical InfrastructureThe OT/IT Boundary Is Not Holding Anymore
For utilities and critical infrastructure operators, the assumption that OT lives in a separate world from IT cybersecurity has aged badly. Here is the new framing.
Read More →Ready to talk about your government technology needs?
Sentinel documents. We do not litigate. Findings advisory and non-binding by design.
A thirty-minute conversation about your program, your timing, and what is actually going to get used. Then we will recommend an engagement, a subscription, or no action at all. Whatever your agency actually needs.
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