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Analysis and insights on US federal contracting
May 8, 2026
The $1.5 Trillion Question: Inside America's Historic Defense Budget Push
The U.S. is rolling out a historic **$1.5 trillion** defense budget for FY2027, the largest single-year request since World War II, anchored by a **$71 billion** nuclear triad rebuild, a 24,000% jump in autonomous warfare spending, and a "Golden Dome" missile shield. But the headline number depends on a reconciliation bill Congress may never pass, and the political and strategic risks beneath it are substantial. This analysis breaks down where the money flows, why it matters for the next decade of U.S. military spending, and what's likely to actually survive Capitol Hill.
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How I Track $500B in US Federal Contracts in Real Time and What I've Learned So Far
The U.S. federal government publishes every contract it awards, daily, for free. The problem is that the data is a firehose with no filter, and the contract that matters most is rarely the biggest one in dollar terms, it's the one largest as a fraction of the winning company's annual revenue. **GovEdge** is built around that single idea: scoring every award by revenue impact so the signals worth acting on surface automatically.
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