$100B+ in federal AI spending. What's working? What's failing? Who's winning?

The AI Mandate covers the policy moves, contract awards, and deployment decisions shaping how the US government builds and buys AI — twice a week, in about 5 minutes.

Written by Hamaad Chippa, a former aerospace & defense engineer (Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman), management consultant (Kearney, Booz Allen), and enterprise AI strategist with over 20 years at the intersection of technology and government.

What's inside every edition:

• The week's most consequential government AI developments, with analysis

• Global AI policy signals that affect US strategy

• Data points or visualizations that puts the news in context

• Contract awards, procurement moves, and vendor decisions worth tracking

Read by federal leaders, defense contractors, systems integrators, and the consultants and investors who track this space.