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Federal AI is scaling faster than its ability to learn

Agencies are buying AI as a service at record pace. The binding constraint is no longer access to models—it is whether the government can capture what works before the next contract cycle erases the memory.

August 20, 20266 min read

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Cybersecurity

The zero trust deadline is an operating model, not a project

As agencies close out their zero trust milestones, the ones treating it as a finish line are already falling behind the ones treating it as a new way to operate.

July 16, 2026 · 5 min read

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Talent & workforce

Cleared technical talent is the real modernization bottleneck

Agencies have the budgets and the vehicles to modernize. What they increasingly lack is enough cleared engineers who can actually do the work—and that scarcity is now the schedule.

June 11, 2026 · 5 min read