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Daily federal contracting news for small businesses: SBA scorecards, agency spending trends, procurement policy shifts, and the developments that shape government contracts. Team Integrity Knowledge Center decodes what each headline means for small, women-owned, veteran-owned, and minority-owned federal contractors — in plain English, every day.
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A June 2026 settlement shows DOJ using the False Claims Act against a contractor’s cybersecurity self-assessment — surfaced by a government audit, not a whistleblower.
A proposed DoD rule would extend foreign ownership, control, or influence (FOCI) disclosure and mitigation to unclassified contracts over $5M — reaching ~37,700 firms.
DOJ’s Procurement Collusion Strike Force is criminally prosecuting bid-rigging and bribery in federal contracts — with nearly half of Antitrust’s open cases now procurement-related.
DOJ recovered a record $6.8B under the False Claims Act in FY2025, with record whistleblower suits and a six-fold jump in defense fraud. What contractors…
IBM has closed its acquisition of HRL Laboratories — the advanced research lab co-owned by Boeing and GM with deep DoD and DARPA research relationships…
NASA is taking over technical and operational work from major contractors like Amentum, which projects losing 3% of annual revenue in 2027 from NASA insourcing…
Army Directive 2026-17 shuts down hundreds of official Army social media accounts including its 25,000-follower LinkedIn page. For small business and nontraditional contractors who relied…
Deputy Secretary of Defense Steve Feinberg sent a memo directing up to $243.9M to Palantir without competitive bidding — naming the company first and citing…
A proposed FAR rule would standardize how all contractors handle Controlled Unclassified Information — with 72-hour incident reporting and real False Claims Act exposure.
On its 73rd anniversary, SBA launched a modernized SBA.gov to streamline access to capital, counseling, and contracting — with a sharpened focus on manufacturers.
GSA’s OneGov strategy is putting frontier AI in agencies’ hands for pennies. Here’s what the shift to centralized commercial buying means for small GovCon firms.
With a FY2027 stopgap likely, here’s what a continuing resolution does to federal buying — what stalls, what keeps moving, and how to protect your…
