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. […]
The Funding Is Back. The Real Bottleneck Isn’t Contracts – It’s Cleared Talent.
After 76 days of budget uncertainty, the freeze has lifted. DHS is funded through September. ICE and CBP now have a combined $70 billion modernization runway. Contracting officers are moving fast, and agencies that had programs on hold are restarting them simultaneously. For a lot of contractors, this feels like the moment they’ve been waiting for. Proposals that stalled are back in play. […]