File your comments but expect some version of the proposal to take effect in 2027. The best players are already mapping which contracts will flip to set-asides, studying their new competitors and recruiting teammates, writes Kevin Cooley, CEO of Resource Management Concepts.
Shifting budgets, tougher compliance rules and competition from big primes make it easy to get stuck in an echo chamber but an advisory board brings in experience, contacts and credibility without the legal baggage of a board of directors, writes market expert Mark Amtower.
Raising small-business size standards is a good start. But if we want more competition at the top of the defense market, we need to stop eliminating tomorrow’s competitors on their way there, writes Matthew Kasberg, CEO of Odyssey Systems.
Treat autonomy as a dial, not a switch: start narrow, log everything and let AI agents earn trust overtime, writes Atul Arya, founder and CEO of Blackstraw AI.
DOD has consolidated unmanned systems programs under one office with the Defense Innovation Unit as the commercial gateway. Here’s what that means for contract strategy, data rights, and supply chains, writes Raymond Jones of Spencer Fane LLP.
The proposed rules would collapse nearly 1,000 size standards into 338 and shift many industries to headcount. You have until Sept. 21 to make your voice heard, writes attorney Ray Jones of Spencer Fane.
Recompetes and on-contract growth make up most of what GovCon companies pursue, but the people who hear the earliest signals report to the COO, not the CGO. Here's how to close the gap, writes growth expert Nic Coppings.
The market will adapt to change but there is too much uncertainty and confusion about the direction and pace of that change, writes Stan Soloway, former president of the Professional Services Council.
A $450M bid protest over an alleged AI hallucination is a preview of what's coming for every agency using AI in source selection, writes David Smalley with defense AI firm Seekr.
SBA’s proposed size-standard overhaul might help growing firm but it raises hard questions about competition, the mid-tier, and how to define small, writes Kristina Messner, CEO of Messner Media Group.
Artificial intelligence is accelerating engineering, but America’s long-term advantage will depend on how effectively government and industry connect digital innovation, physical testing and engineering expertise into a continuous learning cycle. writes Artie Mabbett, CEO of North Wind.
The Pentagon must build an allocation structure to precede its purchases of artificial intelligence tokens, writes John Mark Suhy, chief technology officer at Greystones Group.
Contractors play a critical role in helping agencies apply artificial intelligence as concerns grow about the data infrastructure underlying it all, writes Katherine Hennessey of Everpure.
Katie Arrington, who led the creation of the Cybersecurity Maturity model Certification, writes that the requirements behind the cyber and supply chain security standard should not change.
Closing the infrastructure industry's talent gap will determine which projects actually get built over the next decade, writes Brian Jordan, chief growth officer at GISI Consulting Group.
Contractors still have obligations, self-assessments and False Claims Act exposure aren't going anywhere, writes Perry E. Keating, president of Protiviti Government Services.
The Government Accountability Office's review backs up what reporters and other observers were finding all along: overstated savings, undisclosed data problems and a wall that still cannot be trusted.
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.
