Reforming the Federal Contracts and Grants System
DoD Awards Framework Agreements for Low-Cost Missiles
DoD has signed framework agreements with five companies — Anduril, CoAspire, Leidos, Zone 5, and Castelion — to rapidly expand U.S. military strike capacity...
The Unfinished Weapon: Why America’s Push for Speed in Defense Acquisition Could Still Field Systems that Can’t Survive the Fight
Federal News Network - A new system arrives in the field faster than any previous version. The program was delivered ahead of schedule. The...
Army Launches 1st Tranche of Strategic Capital Initiative Projects
ExecutiveGov - The U.S. Army has unveiled the initial wave of projects under the Strategic Capital Initiative (SCI), a program that aims to modernize...
DoD – War Department Multiyear Purchases Spur Industrial Base Investments
War Department investments in the FY26 budget and those promised in the FY27 budget have heartened companies in the defense industrial base to invest...
From Paper Reform to Practice: How Agencies Are Actually Implementing the Revolutionary FAR Overhaul
Covington - Over one year ago, on May 2, 2025, the FAR Council took the first concrete step in the administration’s “Revolutionary FAR Overhaul”...
Deal Team Six: Finally, the Pentagon Makes Defense Contractors an Offer They Can’t Refuse
RealClear Defense - On May 7, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth released a video that made me laugh out loud in the best way...
Fixed-Price Contracting Works. But Not If the Government Outsources Ambiguity
Uncommon Leadership - The new Executive Order is right to push the government to fixed-price contracting. Too many programs still reward activity over outcomes,...
Agentic AI Just Proved It Can Fix Federal Procurement — Now let’s Scale It
NextGov/FCW - Every year, federal agencies evaluate thousands of vendor proposals worth billions of taxpayer dollars through a process that is slow, inconsistent, and...
The “Once 8(a), Always 8(a)–or HUBZone, SDVOSB, or WOSB” Rule, Where Are We Now?
Koprince McCall Pottroff - For better or for worse, these federal procurement “times they are a-changin’.” One obvious source of recent change is the...
Can the Pentagon Embrace Commercial Acquisition?
American Enterprise Institute - The United States government has historically struggled with accessing the benefits of the commercial market for defense purposes. The Trump...
Hegseth Announces Creation of “Deal Team Six” to Negotiate Defense Contracts
In a video posted on X, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the establishment of a team of the "most talented negotiators in the private...
FAS 2.0 Becomes ASD/Create: GSA’s Quiet Rewiring of Federal Procurement Power
Federal News Network - The General Services Administration’s Federal Acquisition Service has long been the government’s workhorse — running schedules, managing contracts and keeping...
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