Matt Jones, CEO at Sigma Defense, explains how a pickleball app epiphany showed him why contractors billing for hours — not outcomes — will not survive what is coming.
Contractors supporting the department’s most sensitive missions still must be prepared to prove their cybersecurity posture, writes Jason Sproesser of Summit 7.
Army Directive 2026-17 shuts down hundreds of official Army social media accounts. For the acquisition community, the loss goes beyond reach because the Army is also giving up its ability to frame its own message, writes acquisition expert Allison Gregory.
The West is winning the numbers game in space but is missing the point. Real resilience depends on autonomy and ground-segment survivability, writes Graeme Ritchie, CEO of Shield Space.
Compressed acquisition timelines are rewarding contractors who invest in customer intelligence months before an opportunity appears. Not the ones who mobilize after it lands, writes growth expert Nic Coppings.
Her history of turning skeptical agencies into customers signals a shift for the AI pioneer from regulatory defense to an aggressive infrastructure play, writes GovExec Chief Executive Officer Tim Hartman.
This analysis of Top 100 contractor taglines finds bigger and vaguer language. A growing number of firms are also betting their brands on artificial intelligence, writes Boscobel’s Joyce Bosc.
The edge gots to firms that excel at navigating the new regulatory landscape. Here’s eight keys to building your advantage, writes Chris Crowder of Unanet.
EO 14412 sets hard deadlines for agencies and contractors to migrate away from crypto that quantum computers can one day break, writes Gina Scinta of Thales Trusted Cyber Technologies.
Eight years, multiple pauses, and still no cyber protection to show for it — maybe it's time to move past CMMC, not review it again, writes former PSC President David Berteau.
The White House's Anthropic directive shows why contractors can't build compliance around any single AI tool or ruling, writes Mark Mitchell of Netskope.
Your Shipley process and CRM are only as good as the customer intelligence feeding them. Most firms have never measured that capability, writes growth expert Nic Coppings.
EO 14409 sets a high bar for protecting AI models and training data — and agencies can't do it alone; they need help from their vendors, writes Gina Scinta, CTO of Thales Trusted Cyber Technologies.
As the government overhauls its procurement rulebook, contractors are still grappling with a persistent problem that shapes how they price, plan, and perform work. This includes information that must be protected and those responsible for identifying it, writes Lindy Kyzer of ClearanceJobs.com.
The compliance gauntlet isn't just slowing emerging tech vendors — it's eliminating them before agencies ever see what they're missing, writes Irina Denisenko, CEO of Knox Systems.
From a $63 billion autonomous systems push to $58.5 billion in AI investment, the fiscal 2027 request signals where the Pentagon is placing its biggest bets, writes ImmixGroup analyst Joshua Isler.
Strong leadership, partnership, and management turn opportunities into growth even in rocky times in the GovCon industry, writes Evan Henris, CEO of Parabilis.
Commercial supply chains are built to operate in a different world and that often conflicts with how government agencies base their budgets and timelines, writes Don Baker.
