GovCon today: June 15, 2026 — The FFP Mandate's Hidden Trap

Trump's fixed-price and AI executive orders are nominally favorable for FFP-capable small AI contractors — but the Professional Services Council is publicly flagging implementation ambiguity that could let agencies route developmental AI work back to cost-type vehicles through a complexity carve-out. Today's episode traces that risk through the PSC's WT 360 analysis, connects it to the VA's ungoverned AI adoption failure, and argues that the Washington Technology Top 100 'resilience' narrative is masking a defense-civilian bifurcation that small AI shops straddling DoD and VA need to reckon wi