With TBR’s Federal IT Services market and competitive intelligence research, understand and build strategies around industry trends to maximize addressable opportunity and minimize disruption as a core industry undergoes unprecedented change.
Gain insight into how defense contractors are going to market, forming alliances, planning for the future and more as they provide solutions and services tailored to customer objectives ranging from night vision goggles and underwater sensors to F-35s and Low-Earth Orbit satellite constellations.
Learn how federal contractors are approaching Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2), hypersonic technology, the new age space race, digital engineering and the evolving international defense scene.
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Trends we’re watching in 2026:
- The new normal, post-government shutdown and the future of federal It modernization
- Impact of disruption in the federal civilian market and uncertain recovery timeline
- Increased partnership activity
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TCS vs. HCLTech: 2 Distinct Paths to AI Leadership
/by Catie Merrill, Senior AnalystAs AI reshapes the IT services market, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and HCLTech are positioning themselves for leadership — but from very different starting points. TCS brings immense scale, disciplined resource management and exceptional financial resilience, while HCLTech leans on ecosystem orchestration, infrastructure investment and its long-standing engineering capabilities.
Lenovo’s Hybrid AI Push Puts Industry Solutions and Services at the Center of Its Growth Ambitions
/by Ben Carbonneau, Senior AnalystLenovo believes enterprises will run AI across devices, on-premises infrastructure and public clouds — a hybrid AI architecture — choosing where to process information based on data security, latency and operating costs. This core belief drives Lenovo’s investment strategy of building software, solutions and services around its wide-ranging hardware portfolio, spanning smartphones, PCs, workstations, servers and storage to support customers’ choices about where AI runs. For example, Lenovo is positioning itself for broader enterprise AI adoption by leaning into its Hybrid AI Advantage framework, which combines the company’s hardware, software and services to support the deployment of solutions from its AI Library.