CMMC, AI, and Cleared Hiring: The Three Pressures Reshaping GovCon in 2026

If you run a defense contracting firm right now, the environment has gotten objectively harder in the past twelve months. Compliance demands have multiplied; the talent you need is either unavailable or stuck in a clearance backlog, and the AI tools your team adopted to save time may have quietly created a new class of regulatory exposure. […]