Corrections
When we get something wrong we fix the article, note the change on it, and list it here.
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Email [email protected] with the article link and what is wrong. Include the source that shows the correct figure, date, or name if you have one. Reports are read by the publisher. Factual errors in dollar amounts, dates, awardees, contract vehicles, or set-aside type are corrected as soon as they are confirmed against the primary source; the article gets an "Updated" note and an entry below.
Corrections log
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2026-10-22HHS's Migrant Children Legal-Aid Contract Survives GAO Protest as Access Gap Persists
Correction, Oct. 22, 2026: An earlier version of this article said an estimated 126,000 minors were waiting on a guaranteed lawyer; 126,000 is the number of minors in or released from ORR custody covered by the solicitation, and advocacy groups say tens of thousands have been left without legal resources. It also said HHS moved to the re-compete because it withdrew the $150 million single-source award and that the walk-back caused delay; the source does not support that sequence, and the replacement effort was already facing multiple GAO protests when the August announcement was made.
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2026-10-22Northrop's F-16 Jamming Suite Tops $1.9 Billion as Air Force Funds Low-Rate Production
Correction, Oct. 22, 2026: An earlier version of this article said the IVEWS electronic warfare suite had flown in combat during Operation Epic Fury, and described 72 aircraft as a term of the contract modification. The source reports that Block 50 F-16s flew SEAD missions in Epic Fury and that IVEWS has been in flight test since 2024; the 72-aircraft figure was a planned tranche from a 2025 interview. The article also removed a funding breakdown that did not add up to the modification value and unsupported statements about why the funding was routed through the existing contract.
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2026-10-22Court Freezes Army Corps' Kuwait Construction Contract Over Hidden Price Test
Correction, Oct. 22, 2026: An earlier version of this article said the Army Corps must give MVL 24 hours' notice before issuing urgent task orders so MVL could object in real time, and said the injunction closed the door on the agency proceeding with AGCO's performance. The order requires notice to MVL within 24 hours after the Corps issues an urgent task order, and the injunction bars only non-urgent task orders to AGCO.
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2026-10-22Frazier Aviation and Ex-CEO Pay $4.9M to Settle FCA Claims Over Parts Sold Under Lockheed's CAGE Code
Correction, Oct. 22, 2026: An earlier version of this article stated as fact that the settlement resolves a whistleblower suit filed in 2023 in federal court in Virginia. The settlement announcement does not name that case; the article now says the settlement appears to correspond to it.
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2026-10-22HHS's Migrant Children Legal-Aid Contract Survives GAO Protest as Access Gap Persists
An earlier version of this article said an estimated 126,000 minors were waiting on a guaranteed lawyer; 126,000 is the number of minors in or released from ORR custody covered by the solicitation, and advocacy groups say tens of thousands have been left without legal resources. It also said HHS moved to the re-compete because it withdrew the $150 million single-source award and that the walk-back caused delay; the source does not support that sequence, and the replacement effort was already facing multiple GAO protests when the August announcement was made.
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2026-10-22DOT Ends Race- and Sex-Based Presumptions in DBE and ACDBE Contracting, Effective Today
Correction, Oct. 22, 2026: An earlier version of this article said the rule's personal narrative and reevaluation requirements apply to every applicant and every certified firm. Firms owned by Indian Tribes, Native Hawaiian Organizations and Alaska Native Corporations are exempt, and the reevaluation deadlines are tied to the final rule's publication. The article now says so.
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2026-10-22Army Taps Vulcan Elements to Supply Rare Earth Magnets for Million-Drone SkyFoundry Program
Correction, Oct. 22, 2026: An earlier version of this article described the selection rationale as the Army's own stated rationale, said Vulcan won by showing its supply chain was free of Chinese entanglement, said competitors may source from Chinese-linked processors, and said SkyFoundry's scale means batteries, airframes, cameras and electronics need domestic sourcing. None of that was in the cited sources. The article now attributes the selection basis to Vulcan's release (data sheets matching Army specifications, a domestic vertically integrated process requirement, and customer past-performance evaluations), presents the decoupling claim as Vulcan's own, and says only that SkyFoundry aims to produce one million drones per year.
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2026-10-22DOJ Watchdog Finds Performance-Period Irregularities in 37 of 45 Sampled Orders; One FBI Order Was Under an Expired Vehicle
Correction, Oct. 22, 2026: An earlier version of this article said six DOJ components kept awarding orders under expired procurement vehicles; the audit found only one of the 45 sampled orders, an FBI order, was awarded under an expired vehicle, and the other irregularities involved missing end dates, unexercised options and improperly extended vehicles. The headline and lede now reflect this. The article also described the twelve no-end-date orders as under multiple Blanket Purchase Agreements; they were under a single BPA. It also described the FBI order's Blanket Purchase Agreement as being for comprehensive medical services; that description applied to the Bureau of Prisons BPA, not the FBI's.
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2026-10-22Italy Books $4.2B OCCAR Contract for Two DDX Destroyers With Fincantieri-Leonardo JV
Correction, Oct. 22, 2026: An earlier version of this article described 15 knots as the ships' top speed. Fincantieri's statement says the drone-management capability applies at a speed of 15 knots; the article now says so.
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2026-10-22VA Watchdog: Staff Had Under 11 Hours to Vet Hundreds of DOGE-Ordered Contract Cuts
Correction, Oct. 22, 2026: An earlier version of this article said a VA official told OIG about the termination direction four days after Feb. 21; the report says the direction was given Feb. 25, 2025, and the official later told OIG. It also said the 2,210 actions covered every contract VA flagged for cancellation; they came from four VA lists, and VA may have evaluated or terminated others. It also said OIG made no recommendations because OALC had begun corrective action including a new tracking database; the report says OALC updated its congressional list after OIG's January 2026 briefing and VA kept reviewing and terminating contracts beyond the review's scope, and the database was created in April 2025 to track the lists and correspondence.
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2026-10-22Bipartisan Bill Would Deliver First Major AbilityOne Overhaul in Nearly 50 Years
Correction, Oct. 22, 2026: An earlier version of this article described specific changes to how the statute defines qualifying disabilities and employment structures, and said companies and nonprofits outside the current rules would likely gain access. The sources say only that the bill would expand eligibility to help more Americans with disabilities get hired, promoted and grow in their careers; they do not detail which criteria would change or who would newly qualify.
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2026-10-22$315 Million Contract Sends Tutor Perini to Rebuild Coast Guard's Arctic Fuel Pier at Base Kodiak
Correction, Oct. 22, 2026: An earlier version of this article speculated that Kodiak must stay operational during construction and that this explains the fall 2030 completion date, attributed the four-year timeline to the logistical challenge of building in southern Alaska, and predicted more blended-funding awards from a wider Coast Guard shore-facilities backlog. None of those claims was supported by the cited sources, and they have been removed.
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2026-10-22$1 Billion NAVFAC Northwest Construction Contract Goes to 11 Small Businesses, From Idaho to Guam
Correction, Oct. 22, 2026: An earlier version of this article said the winners spanned two Alaska cities (both Alaska firms are in Anchorage), said NAVFAC Northwest had tied roughly $2 billion in contract actions and ceiling value to a single fiscal year (the announcement says only that the MACC follows a record-setting fiscal year in which $1 billion in contract actions was already awarded), and said NAVFAC routinely lets task orders flow to subcontractors (no cited source says this). Those statements have been corrected or removed.
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2026-10-22VA Watchdog Clears DOGE-Era Contract Terminations on FAR Compliance, Faults Bad Numbers Sent to Congress
Correction, Oct. 22, 2026: An earlier version of this article said OIG cited the roughly 100 reinstated contract actions as evidence of a compressed, error-prone process, tied them to the 11-hour Feb. 21 review window, and called the Feb. 25 termination direction a "same-day" directive and the "proximate cause" of the compressed timelines. OIG does not make those characterizations; it reports the reinstatements, attributes the Feb. 25 direction to a Category Management Support Office director's account, and says the Feb. 21 directive came from the OALC principal executive director and a senior adviser to the Secretary. The article also said both lists sent to Congress were wrong by orders of magnitude; that applies to the May list, while the July list overstated contract-action counts by roughly 4.5 times.
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2026-10-22Army Merops Interceptor Drone Clears G-TEAD's 180-Day Acquisition Clock in 142 Days
Correction, Oct. 22, 2026: An earlier version of this article said TWZ reported Merops was developed under the Project Eagle initiative with contributions from Swift Beat. Neither source says that; TWZ reports it was originally developed by Perennial Autonomy, and the article now says so.
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2026-10-22$345M DISA Browser-Isolation Award Stands as Claims Court Rejects 22nd Century's Menlo Pricing Protest
Correction, Oct. 22, 2026: An earlier version of this article attributed the statement that there were "plenty of things DISA could have done to ensure fairness" to the court. That was 22nd Century's argument, which the court quoted. The article now says the court held that nothing in the solicitation or the law required DISA to direct Menlo to offer comparable pricing.
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2026-10-22Navy Claims First Drone Boat With a Carrier Strike Group, but Won't Name the Vessel
Correction, Oct. 22, 2026: An earlier version of this article said Cao made the claim on Thursday, Oct. 15. DefenseScoop reported he spoke on Wednesday, Oct. 14.
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2026-09-29Marine Corps Locks In Up to $404 Million Sole-Source Kongsberg Framework for NMESIS Launchers Through 2034
An earlier version of this article said the sole-source award closes the NMESIS launcher and weapon control market to competitors for the life of the framework. Defence Blog reports only that this award was not competed under a sole-source exception, and the sources do not say whether future orders will be competed; the article now says that.
What does not count as a correction
Awards get protested, modified, and clarified after the first announcement. When later events change the picture we publish a follow-up article rather than rewriting the original; the original stays as the record of what was announced. Typo and formatting fixes that do not change a fact are made without a log entry.
