GovCon today: June 17, 2026 — Agentic AI Deploys; Accountability Doesn't

Federal agencies are fielding agentic AI systems that initiate real-world actions inside government workflows — and almost none of them can consistently reconstruct how an output was formed, what data it touched, or what permissions enabled it. For small FFP-preferring AI shops, the governance gap isn't a policy problem to wait out: it's an unpriced liability surface that lands on the contractor when the audit trail disappears. Today's episode maps that risk and explains the PWS language that can scope it out.