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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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The House passed the FY2027 National Defense Authorization Act on July 22 — $1.15 trillion in national security spending, a renamed Department of War, and…
Iran struck an oil tanker near the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend, sending Brent crude back above $76 and erasing much of June’s inflation…
A $10 billion defense industrial investment wave, 30+ expansion announcements, and multiyear munitions buys worth $12.6 billion — the defense production surge is real, and…
The week that reshaped federal contracting: the Pentagon suspended CMMC Phase 2, fixed-price became the government’s default contract type, FEMA spending cratered 92%, and the…
FEMA has spent just $310 million on contracts through three quarters of FY2026 — 92% below last year — while its Disaster Relief Fund sits…
SBA’s FY2025 scorecard shows agencies awarded 28% of prime contracts to small businesses — yet total dollars fell and WOSB spending hit a 12-year low…
