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Palantir's $10B Army enterprise deal and Maven going Pentagon-wide
Photo: "Palantir Palo Alto office" by Fastily · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons.
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Space Force FY26 launches: SpaceX gets 5 missions ($714M), ULA gets 2 ($428M)
Photo: "SpaceX Demo-2 launch" by NASA / Joel Kowsky · public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.
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JWCC logs $3.9B in task orders — JWCC Next RFP coming Q2 FY26, awards in 2027
Photo: "Data center telecommunications equipment" by Gregory Maxwell · GFDL 1.2 · via Wikimedia Commons.
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CHIPS Act status: $30.9B awarded to 19 firms, but the tax credit expires December 2026
Photo: "HP Labs wafer track system" by Alison Chaiken · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikimedia Commons.
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NITAAC kills CIO-SP4 — the $50B GWAC dies after 350 protests
Photo: "Court gavel" by Jonathunder · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons.
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GSA Alliant 3 Phase 1: 43 of 133 proposers selected for the unlimited-ceiling IT GWAC
Photo: "U.S. General Services Administration Building, Washington D.C." by APK · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons.
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Expanded counterfeit-parts rule: 60-day GIDEP reporting, supply-chain flowdown, FCA exposure
Photo: "NXP PCF8577C LCD driver with I²C" by Cole L · CC BY-SA 2.0 · via Wikimedia Commons.
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Davis-Bacon's $217B federal construction world — first major overhaul in 40 years, penalties now $13,508
Photo: "Construction site, Cologne" by Whiteghost.ink · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons.
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CISA retires 10 emergency directives — and what it signals about federal cyber norm-setting
Photo: "National Security Operations Center, c. 1975" by Daderot · CC0 1.0 · via Wikimedia Commons.
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Leidos wins $617M Army IFPC launcher deal — total IFPC production now $1.2B
Photo: "U.S. service members stand by a Patriot missile battery in Gaziantep, Turkey" by Glenn Fawcett · public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.
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Northrop's B-21 production +25%, Sentinel restructure ends 2026, first launch targeted 2027
Photo: "B-2 Spirit stealth bomber" by Staff Sgt. Bennie J. Davis III (USAF) · public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.
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Booz Allen's $1.58B DIA contract — WMD intelligence as a $300M/year channel
Photo: "Defense Intelligence Agency Headquarters" by DIA · public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.
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OMB M-25-22 reshapes federal AI procurement — effective for solicitations after September 30, 2025
Photo: "Raspberry Pi AI Kit" by Suyash Dwivedi · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons.
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Federal workforce down 271,000 in 2025 — and contractors are absorbing the displaced work
Photo: "Closed lawn of National Mall with US Capitol in background" by Emw · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikimedia Commons.
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VA restarts Oracle EHR rollout at 4 Michigan sites — 9 more in 2026, $37B lifetime cost
Photo: "VA Medical Center, Manhattan" by Beyond My Ken · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons.
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Trump's March 13 Made-in-America EO — FTC enforcement + contract-level origin verification
Photo: "Ford hubcap — Made in USA" by Infrogmation of New Orleans · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikimedia Commons.
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Trump's January 7 Warfighter EO — stock-buyback ban for 'underperforming' defense primes
Photo: "Lockheed Martin headquarters" by Coolcaesar · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikimedia Commons.
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OASIS+ Phase II goes live — rolling open season for the $60B services GWAC
Photo: "U.S. General Services Administration Building, Washington D.C." by APK · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons.
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DHS kills EAGLE II — next-gen IT buying flows through GSA and NIH vehicles
Photo: "DHS St. Elizabeths headquarters campus" by Glenn Fawcett (U.S. Customs and Border Protection) · public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.
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VA's $60B T4NG2 cleared to launch — court denies all remaining protests, 33 vendors authorized
Photo: "Veterans Petersburg Clinic, 2020" by Antony-22 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons.
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SBA suspends 1,000+ firms, terminates 800+ in 8(a) program — and shifts to race-neutral review
Photo: "SBA Disaster Loan Center, Austell, Georgia" by George Armstrong (FEMA) · public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.
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OTAs hit $18B/year — and the FY26 NDAA opens them up further
Photo: "U.S. Senate floor proceedings" (C-SPAN) · public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.
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VA's $700B Community Care Network rebuild — the largest federal services contract ever contemplated
Photo: "Veterans Petersburg Clinic, 2020" by Antony-22 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons.
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VA awards $14B IHT 2.0 to 9 SDVOSB primes — a rare big-ticket set-aside in healthcare services
Photo: "VA Medical Center, Manhattan" by Beyond My Ken · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons.
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DHS Cumulus: non-competitive cloud awards to AWS, Azure, Google, and Oracle — what's in scope
Photo: "DHS St. Elizabeths headquarters campus" by Glenn Fawcett (U.S. Customs and Border Protection) · public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.
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DoE frames cyber as energy-security pillar — $935M NNSA IT + $160M CESER in the FY27 budget
Photo: "U.S. Department of Energy Forrestal Building" · public domain (U.S. federal work) · via Wikimedia Commons.
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DIU's $979M budget + 51% prototype-to-production rate — the shortest path into DoD for commercial firms
Photo: "HP garage — birthplace of Silicon Valley" by BrokenSphere · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikimedia Commons.
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GAO sustains Amentum and SOSi protests of DIA award to GDIT — the evaluation-documentation lesson
Photo: "Court gavel" by Jonathunder · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons.
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WOSB and EDWOSB self-certification ended February 1 — what uncertified firms lose now
Photo: "Veterans Administration Building, Washington, D.C." by APK · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons.
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FedRAMP 20x Phase 2 ends in March — wide-scale rollout coming Q3-Q4 2026
Photo: "Data center telecommunications equipment" by Gregory Maxwell · GFDL 1.2 · via Wikimedia Commons.
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NIST 800-171 Revision 3 + GSA's January 2026 CUI mandate — what changed for non-DoD contractors
Photo: "NIST Advanced Measurement Laboratory, Gaithersburg" by Gail Porter (NIST) · public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.
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Buy America hits full enforcement: October 2026 deadlines tighten domestic content rules
Photo: "Ford hubcap — Made in USA" by Infrogmation of New Orleans · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikimedia Commons.
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Raytheon signs $3.7B GEM-T deal — German-funded Patriot interceptors for Ukraine
Photo: "U.S. soldier firing a Javelin missile, Slovenia, 2016" by Paolo Bovo · public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.
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Congress reauthorized SBIR and STTR through 2031 — what changed in the small print
Photo: "Schuster Laboratory, University of Manchester" by Mike Peel · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons.
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Artemis II flew April 1 — NASA's 2,700-supplier chain just passed its biggest test
Photo: "Artemis II Launch" by NASA / John Kraus · public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.
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DARPA's CLARA: $2M for AI you can prove works — open-source mandatory, proposals due April 10
Photo: "DARPA Headquarters" by ajay_suresh · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikimedia Commons.
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GSA Refresh 31 hits Schedule contracts — TDR mandatory, AI clauses, Price Reductions Clause dies
Photo: "U.S. General Services Administration Building, Washington D.C." by APK · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons.
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HUBZone clock: redesignated areas expire July 1 — many firms don't realize it
Photo: "Rural road in Bremen, Indiana" by Derek Jensen · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikimedia Commons.
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DoD issued 31 DFARS class deviations in December — and 6 more in January. What's actually changing
Photo: "The Pentagon, Headquarters of the US Department of Defense" by Touch Of Light · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons.
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The 43-day shutdown is over — but the contracting damage will linger through Q2
Photo: "Closed lawn of National Mall with US Capitol in background" by Emw · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikimedia Commons.
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Army awards Anduril $20B enterprise deal — and quietly redraws the procurement map
Photo: "Anduril Ghost-X UAS prepared for flight near Mihail Kogălniceanu Air Base, Romania" by Pfc. Nathan Arellano Tlaczani · public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.
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Salesforce wins $5.6B Army IDIQ — the largest commercial SaaS deal in DoD history
Photo: "Salesforce Tower from Salesforce Park" by Dead.rabbit · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons.
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Lockheed Martin lands $4.76B PAC-3 contract — but 94% of the money is foreign
Photo: "U.S. service members stand by a Patriot missile battery in Gaziantep, Turkey" by Glenn Fawcett · public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.
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Hegseth orders DoD-wide review of every small-business contract over $20M
Photo: "The Pentagon, Headquarters of the US Department of Defense" by Touch Of Light · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons.
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FY26 NDAA raises CAS coverage threshold to $100M — what mid-sized firms gain
Photo: "U.S. Capitol Building" by Noclip · public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.
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SBA's January recertification rule guts small-business M&A valuations
Photo: "SBA Disaster Loan Center, Austell, Georgia" by George Armstrong (FEMA) · public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.
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CMMC Phase 2 hits in November — and the math says half the contractor pool will miss it
Photo: "Computer locked" by Juan Pablo Olmo · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikimedia Commons.
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June 2026: DoD bans procurement from listed China-affiliated companies — supply chain audit time
Photo: "Shipping containers at the terminal at Port Elizabeth, New Jersey" by Captain Albert E. Theberge, NOAA Corps (ret.) · public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.
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The FAR is being rewritten in plain English — first time in 40 years, and small firms benefit most
Photo: "Acquisition regulations under examination by GAO" · public domain (U.S. federal government work) · via Wikimedia Commons.
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SDVOSB firms: cert backlog cleared, federal goal raised to 5%, $31B target
Photo: "Veterans Administration Building, Washington, D.C." by APK · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons.
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GAO sustained 14% of merit decisions in FY25 — where bid protests are actually winning
Photo: "General Accounting Office Building" by AgnosticPreachersKid · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons.
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