WT 360: Fiscal year 2027's key features include contract scrutiny and tech differentiation

Federal technology integrators spent much of fiscal year 2025 trying to see what a new world order of contracting would look like, then FY 2026 was all about settling into that environment.

John Caucis and James Wichert, public sector analysts at the market intelligence firm Technology Business Research, join for this episode to go over how agencies’ emphasis on outcomes and accountability from contractors are carrying over into the just-started fiscal 2027.

One way integrators are responding to that scrutiny is offering more intellectual property, including reusable software and other products. Caucis and Wichert walk our Ross Wilkers through how integrators are going about IP and which companies are most active in this respect.

Caucis and Wichert also break down the opportunity sets in both defense and civilian markets, plus the evolving tech partnership scene for integrators that they must be involved in. Artificial intelligence and hyperscale cloud computing are merely two examples of that, as Caucis and Wichert explain.

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