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Before a business can pursue federal government contracts it must register in SAM.  Here are the basics on what that means and where founders and PE-backed businesses get tripped up. Register in SAM.gov — It’s Free SAM, the System for Award Management is the federal government’s vendor management database and every entity pursuing a prime contract...

Who Am I? A philosophical question that people have asked themselves for centuries is, “Who am I?” A big question that arguably we spend our lives trying to answer but never really get there. A question that is closely related to “Who am I” that you may be asking of your business is, “Am I federal...

By:  Margaret M. Cassidy & Andrew Swick 1. Overview The Department of Defense (DoD) and Anthropic demonstrated what a battle contract negotiations can be.  Negotiations between the two blew up in a spectacular way on February 27, 2026, when Secretary of Defense Hegseth publicly labeled Anthropic a supply‑chain risk and ordered businesses in the DoD supply...

DoD just cancelled Anthropic, government style.   To do so, it used a procurement law directed to the military to designate Anthropic a supply chain risk.  [Here is The Defense Salon article discussing this.] That is not the only law permitting the federal government can cancel a contractor.  The Federal Acquisition Supply Chain Security Act (FASCSA) (41...

The final part of our FY26 NDAA review examines changes related to how the U.S. defense ecosystem operates globally while protecting sensitive U.S. technologies and mitigating the risk of adversaries impacting U.S. national security. We organized our review into five subcategories: ITAR AUKUS Exemption Implications Streamlining Foreign Military Sales (FMS) Reforming Technology Transfer and Foreign Disclosure...