Research Division
Where's Public Demand?
From procurement trends to policy shifts, understand where government demand is headed.
How the most consequential tech companies entered government
From company founding to first major federal adoption — and how the entry playbook is changing.
Microsoft
1975
Federal desktop & productivity standard
Oracle
1977
Federal database modernization
Cisco
1984
Federal network infrastructure
NVIDIA
1993
Federal AI / HPC adoption
Amazon (AWS)
2006
CIA cloud initiatives / AWS GovCloud
1998
In-Q-Tel investment in Keyhole (Google Earth)
Salesforce
1999
FedRAMP Authorization / Federal Cloud
Workday
2005
Federal civilian HR modernization
Palantir
2003
In-Q-Tel investment / Intelligence Community
Anthropic
2021
National security partnerships
Anduril
2017
DoD programs & strategic partnerships
What's Changed
More entry points than ever before.
Time to meaningful adoption is shrinking.
Government is an early adopter of critical technologies.
Publications & Case Studies
Case Study
Beyond Frontier Models: Federal Agency Specialization
Federal AI procurement isn't consolidating into a few frontier vendors — it's fragmenting into narrow, agency-specific workflows underneath them. Where the real contracts get written.
Interactive Report
The Untapped Federal AI Market
Civilian AI procurement is growing faster than defense. A field guide to where the doors are actually open — the budget imperative, vendor concentration, and small-business access.