June 12, 2026 · 18 min read
I was handed an AI-built pricing sheet last week with rates wrong enough to break a contract, and a hundred AI-written questions meant for someone else. Same root cause. The model is now the cheap part. The expert whose judgment makes it safe is the part you cannot buy, and the part the market is busy trying to replace.
June 9, 2026 · 18 min read
Six Army captains audited a fleet of dozer maintenance records, found more than 82% of the entries useless, and published it under their own names. A firm priced a job with real AI productivity and got told the price was too low to be credible. Two cases this spring, one about data and one about price, and the system marked both honest parties down. Here is why the machinery underneath speed, innovation, and small business still pays out to the old model, and what it means for the military health enterprise that has the most at stake.
April 22, 2026 · 15 min read
Constitutional compliance, mission-centricity, and economic efficiency. The three principles being tested in the federal contracting laboratory that will reshape how $775 billion in annual contract spending gets allocated.
April 14, 2026 · 14 min read
The four-month procurement freeze is over. The FAR Part 19 rewrite that took effect in the middle of it is not getting the attention it warrants. The Rule of Two no longer applies to task orders under multi-award vehicles.
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