Small business prime awards fell in fiscal 2025
The Small Business Administration releases its newest annual grading of how agencies worked to meet their small business contracting goals. Agencies exceeded the government-wide goal of awarding 23% of prime contracts to small businesses in federal fiscal year 2025, even as total dollars fell and storm clouds loom over this portion of the market. The Small […]
Growth, legal and operations leadership moves across the market
A pair of key hires in government relations teams and four board of directors additions also feature. Agile Defense Benjamin “Ben” Shotzberger has joined the digital transformation company as vice president of business development for its Homeland Security Department unit, a role he brings two decades of public sector experience to. Shotzberger will lead Agile Defense’s […]
FedRAMP Is filtering out innovation, not just risk
The compliance gauntlet isn’t just slowing emerging tech vendors — it’s eliminating them before agencies ever see what they’re missing, writes Irina Denisenko, CEO of Knox Systems. Most technology companies figure this out the hard way. The path to federal revenue does not run through the product. It runs through a compliance process that was designed […]
OMB issues instructions for agency migration to quantum-proof encryption
Agencies are expected to undertake two actions in service of enhanced security: execute a phased migration of cryptographic systems to prepare for quantum computing risk; and submit a PQC migration plan to OMB. The Office of Management and Budget issued a memorandum to federal agencies on Wednesday outlining the steps they need to take to migrate […]