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Fixed-Price First: What the New Default Means for Federal IT Modernization
On April 30, 2026, the President signed Executive Order 14402, "Promoting Efficiency, Accountability, and Performance in Federal Contracting." The order...
Speed to Decision Starts with the Data: Key Takeaway from ASC 2026
Last month, I spent several days at the Air & Space Forces Association’s Air, Space & Cyber Conference (ASC 2026) at National Harbor. I came home with one...
The Permitting Modernization Wave Federal Agencies Should Be Riding
The push for faster federal permits is bigger than the headline projects, and so is the opportunity. Permitting has never been a fashionable topic in federal...
Small Businesses Help Federal Agencies Move at Mission Speed
In federal IT, the distance between “we have a problem” and “we have a solution in production” is where mission outcomes are won or lost. Citizens are waiting...
From Cloud Spending to Cloud Intelligence: How FinOps Delivers Strategic Visibility
The Pentagon has a cloud problem, and it isn't capacity. Speaking before the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Cybersecurity in March 2026, Department of...
Microsoft 365 Copilot for Government: Practical AI for Mission Delivery
Federal agencies are under constant pressure to do more with less. Fewer people. Tighter budgets. Rising expectations for service, transparency, and security....
How Commerce Technology is Modernizing Federal Services Beyond Retail
Federal agencies are not retailers, but many of them still face business challenges that are fundamentally commercial in nature. Across the government,...
How Microsoft’s Project Silica allows Archives to Think in Millennia
When you enter the rotunda of the National Archives in Washington, D.C., you walk into a room that is dark and quiet. Behind thick glass, the United States...
GSA’s Big Idea: Raising the Micro-Purchase Threshold
The General Services Administration (GSA) has introduced a legislative proposal that could transform small-dollar federal procurement. Today, the...