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Two defense tech firms, Blue Water Autonomy and Saildrone, filed federal lawsuits after being excluded from the U.S. Navy's Medium Unmanned Surface Vessel (MUSV) Family of Systems program.…
H.R. 4123, the FIT Procurement Act, was ordered reported by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on February 4, 2026. The movement signals a potential policy change in federal IT procurement that could affect federal IT and technology market segments across multiple agencies and…
Lt. Gen. Douglas Schiess, nominee for chief of space operations of the U.S. Space Force, testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee defending a plan to more than double the Space Force budget.…
Two autonomous-vessel vendors, Saildrone and Blue Water Autonomy, have filed separate protests in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims challenging the Navy’s rejection of their proposals for the Medium Unmanned Surface Vessel (MUSV) program.…
GSA published a proposed AI acquisition regulation that is under heavy criticism from major contractors and legal experts; public comments are open until August 3, 2026. Stakeholders say the draft is incompatible with established commercial practices, imposes notification requirements that are…
House Democrats have publicly challenged acting CFPB Director Russell Vought over reported "DOGE" access to sensitive CFPB databases and the deletion of nearly 15 years of CFPB website content.…
Gen. B. Chance Saltzman delivered his final major address as Chief of Space Operations, stressing the military’s nonpartisan stabilizing role and the importance of international space partnerships. His departure begins a leadership transition at the U.S.…
House Republicans unveiled a $60 billion defense reconciliation bill — an 83% reduction from the President's $350 billion request — putting major portions of the FY2025 defense acquisition pipeline at risk.…
The U.S. Air Force has established framework agreements under the Family of Affordable Mass Missiles (FAMM) program with Anduril, CoAspire, and Zone 5 Technologies and plans to procure high volumes of lower-cost cruise missiles.…
The FAA is replacing paper flight strips with digital flight strip systems at 90 airports by 2028 and has Leidos implementing the system at 18 airports since November 2022. Separately, the FAA is pursuing a Common Automation Platform (CAP) contract to consolidate multiple air-traffic systems;…
The Space Development Agency (SDA) is resuming its Tranche 1 satellite launch campaign after a 9-month pause triggered by on-orbit technical issues with satellites built by York Space Systems and Lockheed Martin.…
The VA expanded use of AI to address a roughly 600,000-claim disability compensation backlog is under heightened scrutiny from Congress, the GAO, and the VA Inspector General due to governance gaps and quality problems.…
The Pentagon has announced framework agreements for multiyear production contracts with Anduril, CoAspire, and Zone 5 Technologies to produce 8,000 affordable cruise missiles per year under the FAMM program.…
A Congressional Research Service report documents a significant shift in Japan’s defense policy: Tokyo plans to nearly double defense spending to 2% of GDP by 2028 and to remove longstanding restrictions on arms transfers.…
The Air Force has formalized a major expansion of its cruise missile buy: a July 10 contract action notice increases planned procurement to as many as 11,200 JASSM and LRASM missiles over the next 5–7 years via a multiyear procurement through 2032.…
The NRO Director nominee testified that the relationship between the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and Space Force is evolving, with Space Force taking greater ownership of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) programs that were previously initiated by NRO.…
Two senior national security space nominations — Erich Hernandez-Baquero for the Air Force's top civilian space acquisition role and Roger Mason to lead the National Reconnaissance Office — are undergoing Senate Armed Services Committee confirmation hearings.…
The Air Force is advancing two major F-16 upgrade efforts with dedicated funding that create near‑term contracting activity for defense suppliers. The reconciliation package provides $187 million for IVEWS electronic warfare system production plus $30 million for additional flight tests, and the…
The Navy awarded TOTE Services LLC a $2.2 billion Vessel Construction Management (VCM) contract to manage procurement of up to eight Medium Landing Ships, marking a material change in Navy acquisition approach.…
GAO reports that DOD has obligated $2.64 billion for southern border operations since FY2025, using multiple funding strategies: $1.74 billion in realigned appropriations, $608 million in counter-drug transfers, $300 million in military construction funds, and $1 billion from the One Big Beautiful…
Europe is executing its Readiness 2030 plan with nearly $1 trillion in defense investment, including a $200 billion defense financing program that has already deployed $6 billion. Collective European defense spending reached 2.1% of GDP in 2025, with frontline NATO allies moving toward 5% of GDP,…
The Department of Interior has launched an Electronic Probate System, branded eNativeTrust, to modernize the Bureau of Indian Affairs' trust estate services for Native American property inheritance cases.…
European government space spending rose 12% to approximately $15.4 billion in 2025, driven primarily by rising national defense budgets, according to a European Space Agency report.…
The Space Development Agency awarded $1.75 billion in contracts to L3Harris and Sierra Space for 36 missile tracking satellites under the Golden Dome missile defense program's Tranche 3, bringing the tranche total to 104 spacecraft with delivery expected by late 2028.…