Federal Contracting Insights & Trends

Analysis

The $1.2T Infrastructure Pivot: Why Mid-Market Firms Are Losing the Phase III Race

Shahid Shah - May 14, 2026

Analysis

The Polaris Protests, Decoded: What GAO Just Did to Small-Business Set-Asides

Data Desk

12 Sole-Source Awards, One Vendor, Six Months

Analysis

The FedRAMP Modernization Timeline You Actually Need

Policy & Budget

Analysis

The $1.2T Infrastructure Pivot: Why Mid-Market Firms Are Losing the Phase III Race

Shahid Shah - May 14, 2026 0

Three line items inside the FY27 Defense IT request ? PE 0303140K, PE 0305387D, and the consolidated JADC2 enterprise services pool ? together direct...

Policy & Budget

What DOGE Actually Changed at the Program-Office Level

Shahid Shah - May 7, 2026 0

Strip out the press release and what DOGE has actually changed at the program-office level is two things: the threshold for new-start justification has...

The Color of Money in Government Contracting, Decoded

May 2, 2026

Agencies

VA OIT Awarded What, To Whom, Last Week

Shahid Shah - May 10, 2026 0

VA's Office of Information and Technology had a busy contracting week. Three T4NG task orders worth a combined $284M, the long-rumored Oracle-Cerner sustainment pivot,...

The DoD Multi-Cloud Pivot Is Quietly Locking Out Mid-Tier Integrators

Shahid Shah - April 25, 2026 0

JWCC was sold to the small-business defense community as a broadening of cloud access. The obligations data through the first eighteen months tells a...