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The Pentagon’s fiscal year 2026 research and development budget request contains 61 separate program lines with an associated budget justification that mentions quantum technologies — a notable milestone in the U.S. military’s decades-long pursuit of capabilities that could one day reshape sensing, computing, cryptography and decision-making. To read more, click here.

With global conflicts increasingly shaped by drones and A.I., the American military risks losing its dominance. While the future of warfare is being invented in places like Ukraine, U.S. officials are looking on with a growing sense of urgency. For decades, the American armed forces have relied on highly sophisticated, super-expensive weapons, like nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and stealth fighters, which take years to design and cost billions of dollars to produce. To read more, click here.

On July 2, 2024, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the formation of a new False Claims Act (FCA) Working Group. The creation of the group, especially in the wake of record-breaking FCA recoveries in 2024, underscores the government’s ongoing commitment to combating health care fraud and makes clear that FCA enforcement is here to stay. To read more, click here.

The Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council has released new model deviation text as part of the ongoing Revolutionary FAR Overhaul (RFO) Initiative, in accordance with Executive Order 14275 and OMB Memorandum M-25-26.
The following RFO updates were posted Friday, June 27, 2025:
Part 6 – Competition Requirements is open for informal feedback until August 11, 2025. Implementation Support: Practitioner Album: FAR Part 6

SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler recently announced the launch of the Make Onshoring Great Again Portal, a free tool designed to help small businesses identify U.S. manufacturers and producers. With a database of more than 1 million American suppliers, the searchable portal will empower job creators to source domestic suppliers to support their operations – which will in turn support American jobs and reconnect our supply chain with U.S-based production.
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Washington, DC (April 3, 2025) – For nearly a decade, the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) has identified, prototyped and scaled commercial technologies that deliver advantages to warfighters. To meet current and future threats, the Department of Defense must rethink the current state of manufacturing, which is fragmented and often dependent on a traditional supply chain with limited capacity and – in many cases – a reliance on our adversaries for key components.
The first step in this initiative is to create the Blue Manufacturing Marketplace to establish a pre-vetted catalog of trusted advanced manufacturing companies capable of scaling defense technology production.

To read more and watch the webinar, click here.

Mountain View, CA (April 10, 2025) – To ensure U.S. energy dominance, the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), with the Department of the Army and the Department of the Air Force, launched the Advanced Nuclear Power for Installations (ANPI) program. First announced in summer 2024, the program will allow for the design and build of fixed on-site microreactor nuclear power systems on select military installations to support global operations across land, air, sea, space, and cyberspace. The Department of Defense team selected eight companies to be eligible to demonstrate the ability to deliver compliant, safe, secure, and reliable nuclear power.

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Today, the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) has launched its OneGov Strategy, a bold initiative aimed at modernizing how the federal government purchases goods and services. In this first phase, agencies will gain easier access to IT tools with standardized terms and pricing. Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) will benefit from a more direct and predictable engagement model while taxpayers will benefit from a smarter, more secure federal IT enterprise.

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The second Trump administration has come flying out of the starting blocks on international trade policy actions—imposing and rescinding, shaping and reshaping tariffs, sanctions, and export controls. The executive orders and directives have come so thick and fast that it is not always simple for businesses to chart a consistent policy direction and develop their plans to account for what might be coming next.

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The General Services Administration (GSA) Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) is planning to issue GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) Solicitation 47QSMD20R0001 – Refresh # 26 in April 2025.

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