The GovCon field guide
Practical, step-by-step playbooks for winning federal work — registrations, compliance, official proposal templates, and the AI keys that power your workspace. Every link points at the official source.
CaptureAgent never resells AI or data access — your organization plugs in its own keys, encrypted per-org so nobody else (including us) can read them. Here is exactly how to get each key.
Everything a new venture needs before it can win federal work — SAM.gov and your UEI, CAGE code, D-U-N-S, and your SBA/SBIR identifiers — in the right order, with zero paid middlemen.
DSIP is the Department of War's one front door for SBIR/STTR — topic search, Q&A, and every proposal submission. Here's how a new firm gets in.
The Department of War buys through Program Executive Offices — find the PEO that owns your problem, the program office under it, and the human beings (TPOC, contracting officer) who can actually move your deal.
Fundraising for a dual-use defense startup follows the same rules as any startup — with a few defense-specific twists. Here is the compressed playbook, plus the working list of defense-active investors from CaptureAgent's Private Capital tab.
Non-dilutive funding, warm PEO paths, and DoW sponsor relationships — the accelerator programs every dual-use founder should know, plus the live list from CaptureAgent's Accelerators tab.
Always draft against the agency's own current templates — evaluators notice. These pages link only to official, current sources.
The compliance stack that unlocks defense work — each category below has its own step-by-step page with the exact forms.
The programs, accelerators, and free help that shorten a new defense company's path — plus the best community-maintained lists.