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Enterprise Technology Solutions and two principals will pay $2.25 million to settle False Claims Act allegations that the IT contractor won 150+ set-aside awards with false HUBZone and women-owned claims while operating from Pakistan. Whistleblower Kyle Harris gets $337,500.
Read the story →NASA selected 16 companies, seven of them Alaska Native or tribal subsidiaries, for $1.4 billion in Enterprise Logistics Support Services BPAs placed on GSA's OASIS+, covering property management, transportation, disposal, export control and flight hardware support for up to 8.5 years.
A Katalyst Space servicer named LINK launched July 3 on a Northrop Grumman Pegasus XL rocket to rendezvous with and reboost NASA's decaying Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, under a $30 million SBIR Phase III contract awarded in September 2025.
NASA finalized its path to award on the roughly $60 billion SEWP VI IT contract after GAO denied Strategic Alliance Business Group on July 2, 2026, the last of 12 protests. The firm lost for omitting a required supply-chain attestation form, and GAO found NASA had no duty to seek a clarification.
NASA's inspector general questioned $127.9 million in Boeing Starliner payments and warned the spacecraft may not earn human-rating certification before 2027 — if ever — citing overconfidence in heritage systems and unresolved technical failures.
At a June 24 House oversight hearing, DOJ's Brenna Jenny laid out False Claims Act enforcement focus areas for federal research grants, including undisclosed foreign funding, NASA China certifications, and DEI programs.
FAR and DFARS rules move through a legally prescribed notice-and-comment cycle — ANPRMs, NPRMs, final rules, interim rules, and class deviations — with mandated review periods contractors can use to shape requirements before they lock into solicitations.
A practical breakdown of IDIQ vehicle types — GWACs, MATOCs, MACs, and single-award IDIQs — covering FAR structure, active ceilings, and how to position your firm for task order revenue.
FAR Case 2026-002, published June 23, 2026, raises the dollar level at which sole-source justifications need higher-level sign-off to $10 million for DoD, NASA, and the Coast Guard, while civilian agencies stay at $900,000. Comments are due July 23, 2026.
NASA awarded 2,115 IDIQ contracts under the new SEWP VI government-wide IT vehicle, with a $60 billion ceiling and 10-year ordering period through October 2036. Program director Joanne Woytek, who has led SEWP since 1999, will retire October 17, 2026.
NASA named 364 initial awardees for the Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement (SEWP) VI contract vehicle on June 22, 2026, covering hardware, software, cloud, and cybersecurity across three categories with a $20 billion ceiling each and a 10-year ordering period through October 31, 2036.
NASA selected 14 awardees under CSDA On-Ramp 2, adding Airbus, ICEYE, GHGSat, Muon Space, and four others to a $476M IDIQ for commercial Earth observation data through November 2028.
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