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Trends we’re watching in 2025:
- Talent pyramid restructuring will challenge consultancies’ and IT services’ companies margins and HR management
- Generative AI revenues will shift from road-maps and MVPs to GRC and scale
- Political and macroeconomic uncertainty will fuel new consulting demand
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Shutdown Ends, but Federal Contractors Face a Slow Return to Normal
/by John Caucis, Senior AnalystThe 43-day U.S. federal government shutdown, the longest in history, came to a welcome end on Nov. 13, 2025, but for some federal systems integrators (FSIs), the shutdown’s impact could linger well into federal fiscal year 2026 (FFY26). According to the Professional Services Council, the national trade association for federal technology and professional services contractors, it will take three to five days for agency functions to return to normal for each day of the shutdown, implying that operations at some agencies may not return to normal until March 2026.
Agentic AI Becomes a Federal Priority, Reshaping the IT Services Value Chain for 2026
/by TBRTBR anticipates AI-led modernization will take center stage in the federal IT market in FFY26, after the disruption from DOGE and the 43-day federal shutdown that began the fiscal year subsides. Federal agencies are increasingly embracing AI technologies to automate IT management and ensure mission success. Health and human services agencies will leverage AI to enhance benefits processing, while agencies in the Department of Defense (DOD) will use AI to streamline and secure defense supply chains and enhance battlefield operations.