Originally published in GovCon Wire on June 30, 2026
For years, those of us operating in the federal contracting trenches have understood a simple truth: contracts don’t create value when they’re drafted – they create value when they’re managed. Forrester’s recent The Contract Lifecycle Management Platforms Landscape, Q2 2026 report highlights the CLM industry’s shift toward postsignature governance, trustworthy AI, and operational integration, validating, in our opinion, the growing importance of capabilities that federal contractors have long known are critical. In other words, the CLM market is finally catching up to the realities federal contractors face every day.
But catching up isn’t the same as arriving.
