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$872.5 Million From DOE to Triad National Security Tops Federal Contract Actions for October 25 to 31, 2026

Wed, 04 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The ten largest federal contract actions recorded for the week of October 25 to 31, 2026 added up to $4.3 billion. The biggest was $872.5 million from the Department of Energy to Triad National Security, LLC, under modification P00262 of an existing contract.

Three agencies made the top ten: Department of Energy, Department of Homeland Security and Department of Veterans Affairs. Defense Department contracts reach USAspending only after a 90-day delay, so they are not in these lists.

Trump Executive Order 14438 on Decreasing Housing Costs for the American People

Sat, 31 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Executive Order 14438 directs the Federal Housing Finance Agency and the Federal National Mortgage Association and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation to establish a pilot program. The pilot program reviews single-family mortgage loans using automated valuation models to identify borrowers who satisfy requirements for cancellation of mortgage insurance. The Director shall direct the Enterprises to establish procedures for this pilot program.

Purpose

The Administration must reduce regulatory barriers to mortgage origination and costs that impede homeownership. The Administration must embrace innovative risk and value assessment technologies that incorporate Super Intelligence to drive down mortgage and homeownership costs. The Administration must promote competition and innovation throughout the housing and mortgage market.

$372.5 Million From DOE to Fluor Marine Propulsion Tops Federal Contract Actions for October 18 to 24, 2026

Thu, 29 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The ten largest federal contract actions recorded for the week of October 18 to 24, 2026 added up to $861.3 million. The biggest was $372.5 million from the Department of Energy to Fluor Marine Propulsion, LLC, under modification P00151 of an existing contract.

Four agencies made the top ten: Department of Energy, Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Homeland Security and National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Defense Department contracts reach USAspending only after a 90-day delay, so they are not in these lists.

GSA and SBA Audit 689 Suspended 8a Contractors Whose Federal Contracts Carry a $5.5 Billion Ceiling

Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The General Services Administration and the Small Business Administration are auditing the federal contracts of 689 firms suspended from the SBA’s 8(a) program, contracts with a combined ceiling of $5.5 billion. GSA announced the review on October 21, 2026.

The 8(a) Business Development Program lets small businesses owned by people the SBA counts as socially and economically disadvantaged compete for set-aside and sole-source federal work. To stay in, a firm has to meet tests on personal net worth, adjusted gross income, total assets, character and its potential for success. The SBA says its own assessment found hundreds of participants that hadn’t shown they met those tests and kept getting contracts and procurement priority anyway. GSA will go through those contracts one by one and send suspected fraud to its inspector general and the Justice Department.

Pentagon Acts as Investor and Bulk Buyer With 25,000 APKWS Kits a Year and Supplier Stakes, but Congress Holds the Money

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The Pentagon signed a framework with BAE Systems on October 19 for up to 25,000 APKWS guidance kits a year for up to seven years, but Congress still has to approve and fund it. The same week, the department’s technology chief talked up loans and equity stakes in suppliers. The Pentagon wants to be a long-term customer and a shareholder at once. Both roles run through Capitol Hill.

The APKWS kit turns an unguided 2.75-inch rocket into a laser-guided one. All four services use it, and it has become a cheap way to shoot down drones. BAE builds the kits in Hudson, New Hampshire, and Austin, Texas, and delivered its 100,000th in February. The framework also sets out a path to 35,000 kits a year if allies place orders through Foreign Military Sales.

DOJ Indicts 14 in North Korean IT Worker Scheme and Raids More Than 40 Texas 'Laptop Farms' as FBI Warns Contractors

Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The Justice Department announced on October 13 a new crackdown on North Korean IT workers who get remote jobs at US companies under false identities and send their pay to Pyongyang’s weapons programs.

A federal grand jury in the Northern District of Ohio indicted 14 people. Two US-based facilitators were arrested, named by the department as Bostelle and Pena Carrillo. According to the indictment, the scheme placed workers at more than 70 US companies and earned about $3 million.

Pentagon AI Oversight Gaps Expose a Wider Problem in Government Technology Governance

Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The United States Department of Defense is accelerating its adoption of artificial intelligence, but the government machinery responsible for ensuring that these systems are deployed responsibly is struggling to keep pace. A new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO), published October 14, 2026, reveals a troubling mismatch between the Pentagon’s technological ambitions and its capacity to manage the organizational, personnel and accountability challenges that accompany them.

The findings are particularly relevant beyond the military. They illustrate a recurring problem in government modernization: agencies can acquire sophisticated technology much faster than they can establish the administrative structures necessary to govern it. Artificial intelligence makes this imbalance especially consequential because its applications increasingly influence decisions that were previously made, reviewed or supervised by human officials.

White House Suspends H-1B and Green Card Processing for Microsoft, Tata, Infosys and Five Other Firms

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The administration said on October 8 it will stop processing new and pending H-1B visa petitions and PERM labor certifications, the first step toward an employment-based green card, for eight companies: Microsoft, Adobe, Cognizant, Tata Consultancy Services, Wipro, Infosys, HCL and Capgemini.

Vice President Vance called Microsoft the “biggest abuser.” Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling said: “We are cutting off the head of the snake.”

Bid Protests at GAO Fall to a Decade Low With a 14% Sustain Rate, Yet the Pentagon and GSA Push 'Loser Pays'

Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Companies filed 1,688 cases at GAO in fiscal 2025 challenging federal contract awards, according to GAO’s annual report to Congress. That’s 6% fewer than the year before and among the lowest counts in a decade. GAO decided 380 on the merits and sustained 53, a sustain rate of 14%, down from 16%.

The more telling number is the effectiveness rate: in 52% of cases the protester got some relief, either because GAO sustained the protest or because the agency fixed the problem itself before a decision.

GAO Flags FAR Overhaul Clause Confusion as the Second Batch of Rewrites Hits an October 19 Comment Deadline

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

On October 6 GAO released its decision on protests against the Army’s MAPS contract, a $50 billion vehicle for professional and IT services. It upheld the Army. But it said the solicitation’s mix of old Federal Acquisition Regulation clauses and new ones from the administration’s FAR overhaul could leave bidders unable to tell which version applied, and called it “not a model of clarity.”

That’s the problem contractors have described all year. Since the overhaul began, they’ve had to bid against three texts at once: the old FAR, the agency deviations that put the new text into effect early, and the formal proposed rules.

GSA OneGov AI Deals Move Past $1 Pricing as Federal Procurement Consolidates and the FAR Is Rewritten

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

In August 2025 three AI companies offered the US government their enterprise products for almost nothing. OpenAI put ChatGPT Enterprise on the table at $1 per agency for a year. Anthropic offered Claude for $1 across all three branches of government. Google came in at 47 cents for Gemini. All three went through OneGov, a program the General Services Administration launched in April 2025 to negotiate governmentwide deals directly with big software makers.

EU Cloud and AI Development Act Could Shut US Cloud Providers Out of Sensitive Public Contracts

Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Amazon, Microsoft and Google run most of Europe’s cloud computing. A law now moving through Brussels could decide whether they may keep hosting its most sensitive public data. On September 8, 2026, EU governments went through the key part of the proposed Cloud and AI Development Act, articles 29 to 44, article by article. Those articles set who qualifies to host public-sector data at each level of sensitivity, and they turn on conditions the United States may not meet.

US Threatens to Pull Buy American Waivers as Europe Writes 'Buy European' Into Defense Spending

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

On September 15, 2026, the United States sent EU lawmakers a paper warning that it “will review all potential response measures” if the EU writes a European preference into its next long-term budget. One of the measures on the table: rolling back the Buy American waivers that let European defense companies compete for Pentagon contracts.

Nineteen of the EU’s 27 member states have Reciprocal Defense Procurement agreements with the US. Under them, American buyers waive Buy American rules for those countries’ firms, and the countries do the same for US firms. Washington is now signaling that the deal works only if Europe keeps buying American too.

Why Government IT Projects Fail: HealthCare.gov, the FBI's Virtual Case File and the Lessons From Phoenix, Horizon and Robodebt

Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

On October 1, 2013, HealthCare.gov opened and buckled on day one. The HHS inspector general later counted nearly $800 million obligated across 60 contracts by February 2014. A decade earlier the FBI had scrapped its Virtual Case File after three years and $170 million. And GAO says the federal government still spends about 80% of its more than $100 billion a year in IT on running systems it already has.

GSA's $50 Billion Multiple Award Schedule vs Britain's G-Cloud: Two Ways to Buy Government Technology

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The General Services Administration’s Multiple Award Schedule is the federal government’s biggest catalog of things it can buy without a full tender. GSA says it moves more than $52 billion a year in products and services. An analysis of GSA data puts fiscal 2025 sales at about $50.6 billion, with about 14,600 contract holders and roughly a third of sales going to small businesses.

It’s in the middle of a shake-up. In fiscal 2025 GSA cut about 1,600 contracts it judged unnecessary. In May 2026 it reorganized its Federal Acquisition Service, putting the schedule in one office alongside its big governmentwide IT contracts. And since March 2025, an executive order has made GSA the central buyer of common goods and services for the whole government.

Hegseth's Acquisition Overhaul Meets GAO's Numbers: 12-Year Weapons Timelines, a Canceled Frigate and a Late Columbia Submarine

Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

GAO’s annual assessment of major weapons programs, published on July 2, 2026, covered 104 programs with planned spending of more than $2.4 trillion. It found the average time to field a new capability is now over 12 years, and rising. Of 40 programs started on the Pentagon’s fast “middle tier” path since 2018, 18 began with immature technology.

That’s the baseline against which Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s acquisition overhaul, launched in November 2025, will be judged.

VA's Oracle Health Record Costs Near $50 Billion as the Contract Ceiling Nearly Triples and Cleveland and Anchorage Go Next

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

At a House Veterans’ Affairs Committee hearing on September 2, VA Deputy Secretary Paul Lawrence put the cost of the department’s new electronic health record at about $48 billion: about $37 billion to finish deploying it through 2031 and about $11 billion to run it. He confirmed the figure isn’t an independent estimate.

The last independent estimate, by the Institute for Defense Analyses in 2022, was $49.8 billion over the system’s life. GAO testified the same day that the estimate needs updating and that VA still hasn’t provided a new cost estimate or a schedule GAO can assess.