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Policy & Budget

The FY2027 Defense IT Budget: What Actually Matters

Every budget cycle produces the same wave of coverage: topline spending increases, major weapons systems, AI modernization talking points, and congressional political theater. But...

The Quiet Shift Toward AI Modernization Funding

The federal market spent the last two years talking about artificial intelligence as if agencies were about to launch entirely new acquisition categories overnight....

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What DOGE Actually Changed at the Program Office Level

The public conversation around DOGE has focused on headlines: workforce reductions, contract cancellations, and broad claims about efficiency. Inside program offices, the changes looked...

Federal AI Budget Signals Nobody Is Watching

Federal AI spending is becoming harder to identify precisely because agencies increasingly avoid labeling projects as AI programs. That does not mean adoption is...

Why Federal AI Adoption Looks Different From Commercial AI

Commercial AI companies optimize for growth velocity. Federal agencies optimize for operational survivability. That single difference explains why federal AI adoption looks slower, narrower,...

VA OIT Awarded What, To Whom, Last Week

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

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...

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