False Claims Act settlements, suspensions and debarments, and procurement fraud enforcement.
GSA OIG audit A250037 found every sampled PBS contract file incomplete, 8 of 11 COR files mismanaged and 40 of 41 government estimates missing CUI markings, after PBS lost about 380 of 774 acquisition staff in 2025. PBS agreed with the recommendations.
Read the story →GAO-27-109299 finds ICE added over 40 detention facilities as its detained population topped 61,817, while DHS inspections fell in frequency, shifted to self-inspection and changed process, and ICE never used deficiency or contract-compliance data to test the effects.
Lockheed Martin will pay about $29.5 million to resolve DOJ False Claims Act and EEOC allegations that it weighed race and sex in pay, hiring and promotion while certifying equal-opportunity compliance as a federal contractor; $7.5 million goes to 1,000-plus employees.
ILC Dover and ILC Astrospace will pay $13 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations that they billed the Army, Missile Defense Agency and NASA while missing contract cybersecurity requirements from 2018 to 2024. Former cyber director Philip Root, who brought the qui tam suit, gets $2.35 million.
John Allen Kurrle Jr., 62, of Gainesville, Va., pleaded guilty in the Eastern District of Virginia to conspiracy to commit wire fraud for lending his identity and his home to a remote-IT worker scheme that produced nine U.S. job offers while he held a top secret clearance at a defense contractor. Sentencing is set for Jan. 28, 2027.
SBA OIG Report 26-19 found contracting staff misunderstood who monitors the limitations on subcontracting, raising the risk that pass-throughs go undetected. SBA plans a draft rewrite of 13 CFR 125.6 by April 1, 2027.
A former USPS packaging official admitted steering contracts worth hundreds of millions to four companies through a relative's consulting firm, two days after the Justice Department announced an Oregon repair contractor's guilty plea for paying a prime contractor employee over $465,000 in kickbacks.
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.
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