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Ocean Ships Wins $1.1B Navy Contract to Operate Seven Oceanographic Survey Vessels
Military Sealift Command awarded Houston-based Ocean Ships a $1.1 billion firm-fixed-price contract to operate and maintain seven T-AGS oceanographic survey ships through 2032, structured as a total small business set-aside that drew three competing proposals.
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SEACORP Wins $32M SBIR Phase III Contract to Develop Submarine Payload Control System Technology
SEACORP LLC received a $31.9 million SBIR Phase III sole-source contract from the Naval Undersea Warfare Center to develop payload control system technology for Navy submarines, with work spanning Rhode Island, multiple U.S. locations, and sites in the United Kingdom and Australia.
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Amentum Wins $30M Contract to Modernize Return Basin Pump Infrastructure at Arnold AEDC
Amentum Technology secured a $30 million ceiling contract to replace pump assemblies and modernize infrastructure for the Return Basin at Arnold Air Force Base, Tennessee, home of the Arnold Engineering Development Complex.
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CBO Estimates Golden Dome Would Cost $1.2 Trillion Over 20 Years, Seven Times the Administration’s Target
A Congressional Budget Office analysis published May 12, 2026 estimated that a missile defense architecture meeting Golden Dome's objectives would cost $1.2 trillion over 20 years, with a space-based interceptor layer of 7,800 satellites accounting for roughly $730 billion of that total.
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NDAA Section 875 Puts Incumbents at Financial Risk for Filing Meritless GAO Protests
The FY2026 NDAA's Section 875 authorizes DoD to withhold up to 5 percent of contract payments from incumbents that file baseless GAO protests during a bridge contract period, with DFARS implementing regulations due by June 16, 2026.
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NDAA Section 866 Cybersecurity Harmonization Mandate Takes Effect June 1, 2026
Section 866 of the FY2026 NDAA (not FY2025) requires DoD to harmonize overlapping DFARS cybersecurity requirements by June 1, 2026, with CMMC likely serving as the consolidation anchor. Corrects the article's original wrong fiscal-year attribution and removes an unconfirmable '47 provisions' statistic.
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Moog Military Aircraft Wins $25.9M Long-Term Navy Contract to Repair V-22 Osprey Bladefold Actuators
Moog Military Aircraft secured a $25.9 million long-term Navy contract to repair bladefold actuator components and power modules for the V-22 Osprey fleet, with work performed at its Torrance, California facility through May 2029.
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DOJ Civil Rights Fraud Initiative: What Federal Contractors Need to Know Beyond the IBM Settlement
The Department of Justice's Civil Rights Fraud Initiative — established March 2025 — uses the False Claims Act to pursue federal contractors that misrepresent compliance with civil rights, equal opportunity, and nondiscrimination requirements in their contracts; the IBM settlement is the first but explicitly not the last action under the initiative.
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OMB M-26-10 Requires Agencies to Publish IT Contract Spending Data and Adopt Unified Acquisition Lifecycle Reporting
Office of Management and Budget Memorandum M-26-10, issued May 5, 2026, requires all CFO Act agencies to publish quarterly IT contract spending data at the project and investment level, adopt a unified acquisition lifecycle reporting standard, and demonstrate that major IT investments are aligned with agency enterprise architecture before award.
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FAR Council Proposes First Comprehensive Suspension and Debarment Rule Modernization Since 1988
A FAR proposed rule published April 9, 2026 (FR 2026-06864) proposes the first comprehensive revision of FAR Part 9 suspension and debarment procedures since 1988, adding due process protections, clarifying the present responsibility standard, and establishing procedural timelines that have been absent from the regulatory framework for decades.
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Conti Federal Wins $36.3M Contract to Build B-21 Raider Flight Simulator Facility at Ellsworth AFB
Conti Federal Services won a $36.3 million design-bid-build contract to construct the B-21 Raider ADD Flight Simulator Phase 2 facility at Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota, with completion scheduled for July 2028.
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FAR Overhaul Phase 1: 31 DFARS Class Deviations Effective February 1, 2026 Streamline Defense Contracting
The DoD FAR overhaul initiative's Phase 1 put 31 DFARS class deviations into effect on February 1, 2026, eliminating or simplifying provisions identified as duplicative, outdated, or disproportionately burdensome — the largest single-day reduction in DFARS regulatory text in the supplement's history.
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