https://wolverine-group.com/blog.html Practitioner writing from The Wolverine Group on federal acquisition, AI in procurement, and open-source intelligence tradecraft. en-us https://wolverine-group.com/post-genai-data-safety-year-end-close.html https://wolverine-group.com/post-genai-data-safety-year-end-close.html AI in Procurement Tue, 15 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0400 Sorting the year-end queue is the skill, not prompt writing. What belongs in a commercial AI tool during fiscal close, what to anonymize, and what never goes in. https://wolverine-group.com/post-sba-size-standard-541611.html https://wolverine-group.com/post-sba-size-standard-541611.html Acquisition Strategy Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0400 SBA would raise the management consulting threshold from $24.5 million to $295 million. The firms with the most to lose are the ones the set-aside program has worked best for. https://wolverine-group.com/post-ai-contracting-officers.html https://wolverine-group.com/post-ai-contracting-officers.html AI in Procurement Tue, 14 Jul 2026 09:00:00 -0400 Most procurement AI pitches solve a problem contracting officers do not have. The useful work is narrower, less glamorous, and far more valuable. https://wolverine-group.com/post-osint-source-validation.html https://wolverine-group.com/post-osint-source-validation.html OSINT Tradecraft Fri, 26 Jun 2026 09:00:00 -0400 Collection is cheap and getting cheaper. Confidence is expensive. A working discipline for source validation in a synthetic-media environment. https://wolverine-group.com/post-teaming-with-a-wosb.html https://wolverine-group.com/post-teaming-with-a-wosb.html Acquisition Strategy Tue, 09 Jun 2026 09:00:00 -0400 Socioeconomic teaming is treated as a compliance checkbox far more often than a capability decision. That costs primes real evaluation points.