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.
From faster procurement cycles to 15,000 jobs in Alaska, the facts about this program are being ignored in Washington, writes Nicole Borromeo, president of the ANCSA Regional Association.
The intelligence is there. The relationships are there. But your operating model has taught your best people that sharing what they know creates more burden than benefit, writes growth expert Nic Coppings.
Deploying AI at the tactical edge isn't a software problem. It's a full-stack engineering challenge that commercial architectures weren't built to solve, writes Cale Stephens, vice president at Crystal Group.
The current architecture isn’t lacking capability—it’s constrained by design. When storage economics force teams to choose what to watch, adversaries choose for them, writes Collin Lee, CIO of Omni Federal.
The gap between how well you think you know your customer and how well you actually do is where your competitors live, writes growth expert Nic Coppings.
Artificial intelligence, commercial-first buying and demands for proof of returns on investment are rewriting the rules for contractors, writes GovExec CEO Tim Hartman.
From inventory support to DARPA's $282M benchmarking initiative, here's where the opportunities are — and what to avoid, write immixGroup’s Joshua Iseler and Grier Egan.
Agencies won't unlock AI's potential until they treat their existing data as a strategic asset, not an administrative burden, writes Tyler Morris of Iron Mountain Government Solutions.
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