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NAVSEA awarded Fairbanks Morse Defense a $99.09M follow-on, sole-source contract to overhaul Emergency Diesel Generators on six nuclear submarines through 2030, part of a Navy plan to extend Ohio- and Los Angeles-class service life by up to 14 years.
Navy awards Lockheed Martin a sole-source $88.6M IDIQ to produce, install, modernize and sustain Radiant Mercury cross-domain systems through October 2029, citing the Only One Responsible Source exception. Task orders will set the real scope.
The Navy added $2.4 billion in value to Fluor Marine Propulsion's Naval Nuclear Laboratory contract but obligated only $597,900 at award, using fiscal 2026 funds before they expired. Work splits among Pittsburgh, Schenectady and Idaho Falls.
The Defense Health Agency exercised third-year options worth $1.85 billion on six noncompetitive Uniformed Services Family Health Plan contracts, keeping Johns Hopkins, Martin's Point and four other nonprofits managing care for about 174,700 beneficiaries through September 2027.
DLA's Medical Surgical Prime Vendor awards to Cardinal Health, McKesson and Concordance carry a combined potential value of more than $3.7 billion, with Cardinal receiving the largest contracts. The awards follow MSPV V, which takes orders through August 2027.
GSA has expanded its OneGov deal with Anthropic, giving federal, state, local and tribal governments a 40% discount on token-based Claude usage with no minimum orders, as the $1-per-user offer expires Oct. 31.
U.S. Special Operations Command will prototype Smack Technologies' Omega, an AI campaign-planning tool that repairs plans in seconds and runs without constant cloud links, under an Other Transaction agreement worth up to $7.5 million. The startup expects production across multiple branches in coming months.
Treasury proposed rules implementing the FY26 NDAA COINS Act that would prohibit U.S. investment in super intelligence, hypersonic and biotech development in China and five other countries of concern, add live-deal feedback and divestment powers. Comments are due Dec. 7, 2026.
DHS ordered civilian agencies to stop buying Swiss firm Acronis AG's backup and cybersecurity products and remove them from federal IT systems within 180 days, citing the tools' privileged root access. The FASCSA order extends last year's intelligence community ban.
Industry and legal commenters urged the FAR Council to write rules on agency use of AI in proposal evaluations into the Revolutionary FAR Overhaul, proposing disclosure, human verification and contract-file documentation after the comment period on the second batch of overhaul rules closed Oct. 19.
The Pentagon picked Poland to host a new European maintenance, repair and overhaul facility for Lockheed Martin's PAC-3 interceptors, with Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden leading supply chain integration. The site will not build missiles; cost, location and schedule remain unannounced.
DoD's own CMMC RFI data, reported by Federal News Network, shows NIST 800-171 controls and CUI marking, not certification, drive contractor costs, with average CMMC assessments at $47,000 as the 75-day review passes 100 days.
HD Hyundai USA and Kiewit Maritime plan HD Kiewit Shipbuilding LLC, a joint venture to build a new Gulf Coast shipyard for naval auxiliary and commercial vessels plus ship blocks and modules. Construction is targeted for 2027, full operations for 2029, with up to 3,000 jobs at full scale.
Extreme Networks avoided charges but owes $975,721.84 to DOJ and $1,529,685 to OFAC for sales to MMZA, the S-300/S-400 maker. A late disclosure, made under threat of a news story, cost it a declination.
SBA OIG Report 26-19 found contracting personnel at SBA, GSA, Interior and the Department of War misread and rarely verify limitations on subcontracting, leaving pass-through schemes hard to detect. SBA plans a draft rewrite of 13 CFR 125.6 by April 1, 2027.
FBI arrested Ian Brinksman, a Top Secret/SCI-cleared systems-integration developer for a contractor to a U.S. intelligence agency, on charges he transmitted national defense information to a romantic partner who runs a Substack publication. The case spotlights insider-risk exposure for cleared contractor staff.
DOJ's Civil Division and HHS launched a six-month Healthcare False Claims Act Self-Disclosure Pilot. Companies that report previously unknown misconduct by April 22, 2027 repay 1.25 to 1.6 times a base repayment and receive a coordinated civil release covering FCA liability and certain HHS administrative authorities.
NASA OIG report IG-27-001 finds SMD runs the National Academies decadal surveys hands-off, with 700-page reports reviewed in under 10 days, untracked recommendations and $76M in mission concept studies not fully accounted for. NASA concurred with all eight recommendations.
The Justice Department's Fraud Whistleblower Incentive Program pays $10,000 to $30,000 for tips leading to criminal charges, covering fraud on Department of War, SBA and six other agencies' programs, with Treasury committing $25 million.
GAO upheld the Navy's decision to reject MIL Corp's offer for a $156M NAWCAD IT task order because its industrial production manager held a bachelor's degree, not the required master's. That made MIL ineligible to press its other claims, so GAO denied the protest in part and dismissed the rest, leaving the order with BAE Systems.
GAO rejected incumbent Octo Metric's protest of a USCIS PLANXS II IT support task order issued to AEX Digital at $88.1 million, $12.5 million below Octo's price, upholding three code challenge weaknesses that cost the incumbent the recompete.
GAO dismissed Encon Desbuild JV4's protest of its phase-one exclusion from a $1.5B NAVFAC small business design-build IDIQ pool as untimely. The phase-one debriefing was not a required debriefing, so GAO never ruled on the past performance challenge.
GAO rejected Business Integra's challenge to HII Mission Technologies' $185M Navy security and IT support award, upholding the Navy's key proposal weaknesses and warning that the protester's erroneous citations bore the hallmarks of unverified AI use. Future filings citing nonexistent authority may draw sanctions.
The Court of Federal Claims remanded the Air Force's worldwide C2E construction MATOC awards after MVL USA showed the agency never explained how its average-price comparison proved each price fair and reasonable; new full-and-open task orders are frozen during remand.
GAO upheld the Army's choice of KTH Services JV for a $245 million HUBZone base-operations contract over Keta Environmental, finding the Army could pay what the SSA called a 0.95 percent premium for the incumbent team's proven performance even though both firms earned the same past performance rating.
Every 2026 threshold with its FAR cite, the size-standard tables, and every deadline clock that can kill a bid — with the trap for each. Four printable pages, updated when the rules change.
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