Three program elements in the FY27 Defense IT request quietly redirect $14.8B toward a narrower vendor pool. Here is what an operator below $50M actually needs to know.
Two sustained protests and one dismissed protest in a single docket week tell you more about FY26 set-aside risk than any GSA briefing has.
OASIS+, CIO-SP4, and Alliant 3 are not equally exposed to the CR. The award-velocity data through Q2 explains why.
A regular column. This week: the Oracle-Cerner sustainment pivot, three quiet T4NG task orders, and one new entrant nobody saw coming.
JWCC was supposed to broaden access. Eighteen months in, the obligations data tells a different story.
The single most undersold acquisition mechanism available to small tech firms remains, year after year, also the most misunderstood.
From the Data Desk
— FPDS, FY25 final
Government-wide obligated spend hit a new peak in FY25. The share captured by mid-tier firms declined 4.2 percentage points year-over-year.
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Opinion · Contrarian Take
"The capture-consulting industry has been selling NAICS expansion for fifteen years. The data has been telling a different story for ten of them."
The Atlas · FY2026 · Vol. 1, No. 7
May 14
What the FY27 request signals for sub-$50M tech firms, plus a data desk pull worth reading twice.