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What the Medicaid Unwinding Broke — and What State Eligibility Platforms Need Before the Next Policy Shock

The continuous enrollment unwinding exposed specific, predictable failure modes in state Medicaid eligibility systems — batch processing bottlenecks, address data decay, and ex parte rates that varied by an order of magnitude. States that treat this as a closed incident rather than a diagnostic will face the same failures when the next federal policy shift hits.

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Beyond GPS: Why the DoD's Assured PNT Program Is the Prerequisite Every AI-Enabled Weapon System Needs

Every AI-enabled targeting system, precision-guided munition, and autonomous platform fielded in the last decade depends on GPS for timing and position. In theaters where adversaries have demonstrated mature GPS jamming and spoofing, that dependency is no longer acceptable — and the A-PNT portfolio is the DoD's answer, if acquisition keeps pace with the systems that need it.

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AI adoption, public services, and modernization for state and local government.

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September 25, 2026

What the CCWIS Record Teaches State IT Buyers: Governance, Readiness, and Delivery

The federal CCWIS record shows slow modernization, not a simple project failure rate. State buyers can use its lessons to improve program-IT governance, readiness testing, and workforce continuity.

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September 24, 2026

State CIOs Can't Secure What They Don't Control

NASCIO found that 31 percent of surveyed CIO budgets fund critical-infrastructure cyber support for local governments and special districts. A credible whole-of-state plan must map authority, funding, and actual service coverage.

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September 23, 2026

Beyond the Document Scan: Stronger Digital Identity for State Government

Cryptographic credentials can strengthen identity verification, but states still need trustworthy enrollment, protected recovery, accessible alternatives, and separate eligibility checks.

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Defense & DoW

AI, autonomy, and cybersecurity for the defense mission.

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September 28, 2026

Army TITAN and the Targeting Gap: Why AI-Enabled Intelligence Fusion Is Harder Than the Kill Chain Diagrams Suggest

The Army's Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node places AI-enabled multi-source fusion at corps and MDTF echelon for long-range precision fires — but deploying AI inference in DDIL environments exposes persistent gaps between what the kill chain diagrams assume and what contested operations actually allow.

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September 27, 2026

What Transforming in Contact 2.0 Actually Requires: The Army's Autonomous Systems Acquisition Strategy and What It Means for Defense Contractors

The Army's second wave of Transforming in Contact is no longer about learning whether soldiers can integrate commercial technology — it proved that. TiC 2.0 is asking harder questions about one-to-many control, autonomous breaching, and field-level EW that defense contractors cannot answer with a product sheet.

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September 25, 2026

Blackbeard's Production Award: What SBIR Phase III Accelerates—and What the Navy Still Has to Prove

The Navy's Blackbeard production award demonstrates a faster contracting route for a nontraditional supplier. Fleet readiness still depends on testing, integration, manufacturing quality, and a funded delivery plan.

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