Micah Dickson

Data-backed capture to unseat incumbents. Fractional CGO advising GovCon founders and PE buyers.

Brief

METTS IV Is Real. The Solicitation Is Slated for FY28.

Aug 25, 2026

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4 min read

METTS IV Is Real. The Solicitation Is Slated for FY28.

NASA put the $250M–$500M follow-on on its forecast.

Micah Dickson

Brief

$25M Spent, $61M in Potential Value, and Two Option Years Still on the Board

Aug 18, 2026

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4 min read

$25M Spent, $61M in Potential Value, and Two Option Years Still on the Board

The FBI contract that looks closer than it is.

Micah Dickson

Brief

The Monterey CSOC Seat Is an Option Fight on SeaPort, Not a Hard Cliff

Aug 11, 2026

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4 min read

The Monterey CSOC Seat Is an Option Fight on SeaPort, Not a Hard Cliff

Four Firms Already Know This Navy Cyber Desk. The Option Gate Is March.

Micah Dickson

GovCon

TallyPoint Signal: August 2026 Pipeline Menu

Aug 4, 2026

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6 min read

TallyPoint Signal: August 2026 Pipeline Menu

Seven recompete and option windows worth watching before they become everybody's chase.

Micah Dickson

AFLCMC Hired a SOCOM Firm to Run Its Air Force SATCOM

Jun 23, 2026

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9 min read

AFLCMC Hired a SOCOM Firm to Run Its Air Force SATCOM

The Window Opens in 27 Months

Micah Dickson

Peterson Is Putting Base IT Back on the Open Market

Jun 16, 2026

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8 min read

Peterson Is Putting Base IT Back on the Open Market

The Vehicle Is Dead. The Contract Isn't.

Micah Dickson

GitLab Isn't the Recompete. LaunchPad Is.

Jun 9, 2026

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7 min read

GitLab Isn't the Recompete. LaunchPad Is.

The Air Force Is Retiring the Standalone Software Buy at Wright-Patt

Micah Dickson

TallyPoint Signal- June 2026 Pipeline Menu

Jun 1, 2026

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5 min read

TallyPoint Signal- June 2026 Pipeline Menu

The contracts worth chasing before they show up on SAM.gov.June 2026

Micah Dickson

The Mission Scaled. The Contract Didn't.

May 26, 2026

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11 min read

The Mission Scaled. The Contract Didn't.

AFRL Is Reclassifying How It Buys Digital Engineering

Micah Dickson

AMC Picked Its Vendor Before the Solicitation Opened. Nobody Else Was Asked.

May 19, 2026

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10 min read

AMC Picked Its Vendor Before the Solicitation Opened. Nobody Else Was Asked.

Air Mobility Command (AMC) Deployed Its Edge Intelligence Platform at MacDill. One Firm Got the Work.

Micah Dickson

Air Force Is Breaking Up Its Cyber Support Structure at Joint Base San Antonio

May 12, 2026

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7 min read

Air Force Is Breaking Up Its Cyber Support Structure at Joint Base San Antonio

The 8(a) Window Closed. The Budget Didn't.

Micah Dickson

SOCOM Is Restructuring How It Buys Services

May 11, 2026

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10 min read

SOCOM Is Restructuring How It Buys Services

SOF WEEK SPECIAL EDITION — SOCOM 2026

Micah Dickson

541511

Space Force Just Built Its Own Commercial SATCOM Engine

May 5, 2026

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21 min read

Space Force Just Built Its Own Commercial SATCOM Engine

The SDVOSB Managing It Has Five Months Left. The Window Behind It Just Closed Last Month.

Micah Dickson

The Coast Guard Is About to Recompete a Health IT PMO Contract

Apr 28, 2026

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18 min read

The Coast Guard Is About to Recompete a Health IT PMO Contract

The Firm Holding It May Not Be Eligible to Bid.

Micah Dickson

Apr 22, 2026

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21 min read

Every Opportunity Is One Puzzle Piece

A One-Time Issue on How the Framework Works

Micah Dickson

Pearl Harbor's $82M Recompete Is TQI's to Lose

Apr 21, 2026

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16 min read

Pearl Harbor's $82M Recompete Is TQI's to Lose

TQI Solutions built their win on the old Pearl Harbor. AUKUS, SIOP, and a Cloud First mandate are buying a new one. The $82M recompete will not resemble the current PWS and most BD teams won't figure that out until the RFP drops.

Micah Dickson

The $11.6M Body Shop the Air Force Is About to Outgrow

Apr 14, 2026

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4 min read

The $11.6M Body Shop the Air Force Is About to Outgrow

How to break a Tribal Sole-Source

Micah Dickson

SPECIAL EDITION: THE FY2027 BUDGET JUST DROPPED

Apr 13, 2026

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5 min read

SPECIAL EDITION: THE FY2027 BUDGET JUST DROPPED

$1.5 Trillion. But for who?

Micah Dickson

The $15.7M Terrain Map Just Funded a $481M War

Apr 7, 2026

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The $15.7M Terrain Map Just Funded a $481M War

Every BD shop tracking this ANC sole-source closed the tab when they saw the 8(a) flag. Wrong move. NISGAA CIOPS mapped the battlefield. PE 1203040SF just posted a $481.251M FY2027 discretionary request — a 391% single-cycle jump. The incumbent cannot self-perform what that budget is buying next.

Micah Dickson

Flatter's advisory role can't build what the J-Books just bought.

Apr 1, 2026

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7 min read

Flatter's advisory role can't build what the J-Books just bought.

The Air Force's cyber and cloud execution budget is accelerating. The incumbent is coded Professional Services, Other.

Micah Dickson

Mar 28, 2026

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4 min read

The AETC Cyber Recompete

And the Option Year Arbitrage

Micah Dickson