The FY2027 Continuing Resolution: What the Stopgap Means for Federal Contractors
Congress just handed federal contractors a few more months of certainty and a few more months of uncertainty at the same time. On September 1, 2026, the House passed a stopgap spending bill to keep the government open past the October 1 deadline. The Senate had already approved it, and the President signed it into […]
AI Capture Platforms in 2026: What to Automate and What You Should Never Hand a Machine
A capture manager today can ask software to scan thousands of solicitations overnight and rank the ten worth a second look by breakfast. That is the promise of AI capture platforms, and it is mostly real. These tools automate the slow, repetitive research that used to eat up a capture team’s week. Here is the […]
GWAC and MAC Contract Vehicles: An FY27 Strategy Guide
GWAC and MAC contract vehicles are pre-awarded federal contracts. They let agencies buy services fast from companies that have already qualified. Here is the shift worth making for FY27: stop asking “did we win a seat?” and start asking “do we hold the seats that matter, and can we still reach the ones we don’t?” […]
Simplified Acquisition Threshold 2026: Current Limits
If you have read that the simplified acquisition threshold sits at $250,000, that number is a year out of date. It rose to $350,000 on October 1, 2025, and the micro-purchase threshold moved from $10,000 to $15,000 at the same time. That distinction matters more than it sounds. The threshold decides which contracts are automatically reserved […]
Empower AI’s $145.6M DIGIT XGen Win: What It Means for GovCon
In 2021, GSA’s flagship enterprise IT program carried a $807 million price tag. Its next-generation successor, awarded on July 14, 2026, is worth $145.6 million. That gap is not a typo. It is one of the clearest signals yet of where federal IT contracting is heading, and most coverage of the award skipped right past […]
OASIS+ Amendment 0009: July 15 Deadline and What Changed
One signature could decide whether your OASIS+ proposal stays in the running. On July 7, 2026, the General Services Administration (GSA) posted Amendment 0009 for the OASIS+ Phase II solicitations. The amendment applies to all six contract tracks, from 8(a) to Unrestricted. Two things happened at once here. First, offerors with pending proposals received a hard […]
CMMC Phase II Suspended: What Defense Contractors Must Know
More than 100,000 small defense businesses needed a third-party cybersecurity assessment by November 2026. Only about 100 approved assessors existed to perform them. That gap just forced one of the biggest compliance reversals in recent defense contracting history. On July 13, 2026, the Department of War announced the immediate suspension of CMMC Phase II requirements. The same […]
Will AI Replace Government Contractors? The 2026 Reality
Paste a solicitation into an AI tool today, and you can have a clean, professional-looking proposal draft before lunch. That reality has a lot of people asking the same question: Will AI replace government contractors, consultants, and proposal writers in 2026? The short answer is no. The longer answer matters more because AI is genuinely […]
The VA Just Told Its Tech Vendors: Loyalty Doesn’t Pay the Bills Anymore
For years, holding a VA contract felt like job security. You did the work, you stayed out of trouble, and the recompete was mostly yours to lose. That assumption just took a public hit. On June 18, 2026, a senior VA technology official said the quiet part out loud. Zack Schwartz, principal deputy assistant secretary […]
SEWP VI Awards Are Out: What Every Contractor Should Do Next
After years of anticipation, NASA has started handing out one of the federal government’s biggest IT contracts. On June 22, 2026, the agency announced it would begin processing awards for SEWP VI, naming 1,490 vendors and making 2,115 awards across three categories. That scale is hard to overstate. Under the prior SEWP V, NASA made […]