Your federal-contracting briefing: 2 new items across awards, policy, analysis, and company news.

The Department of Veterans Affairs is requesting public comment through October 15, 2026 on a new process to recognize organizations and individuals that help veterans, families, and caregivers navigate VHA programs, as required by Section 129 of the Dole Act.

The Defense Health Agency's R&D activity at Fort Detrick adopted a final Science and Technology Reinvention Laboratory personnel plan on September 17, 2026, taking effect with no public comment period.

Your federal-contracting briefing: 3 new items across awards, policy, and analysis.

The Treasury Department and IRS published proposed regulations on September 11 requiring Qualified Opportunity Funds to file new information returns and furnish investor statements, while clarifying penalties and self-certification procedures. Comments close October 16, 2026.

The General Services Administration submitted a Paperwork Reduction Act request to OMB on September 11 for a new SAM.gov annual certification requiring registered Higher Education Institutions to certify compliance with Executive Order 14400. Comments close October 13, 2026.

The National Institutes of Health published a draft biosafety policy on September 14 that would replace its current Guidelines for Research Involving Recombinant or Synthetic Nucleic Acid Molecules. Public comments are open through October 19, 2026.

Your federal-contracting briefing: 1 new item across awards, policy, and analysis.

DOE published a request for information on restricting foreign-made bulk-power equipment, with comments due October 9 and Federal Acquisition Regulation changes to follow.

Your federal-contracting briefing: 1 new item across awards, policy, and analysis.

FEMA awarded Fluor Federal Services Inc. a $39,062,722 task order on September 5, 2026 for claims-review technical support at the Hermit's Peak/Calf Canyon Claims Office. The award runs under FEMA's PATAC V IDIQ and covers a roughly six-month period of performance.

Your federal-contracting briefing: 1 new item across awards, policy, and analysis.

Your federal-contracting briefing: 1 new item across awards, policy, and analysis.

The Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration has obligated $7.7 billion to date under its management-and-operations contract with Mission Support & Test Services LLC for the Nevada National Security Site, a Honeywell International Inc. subsidiary running the deal under a $11.3 billion base-and-options ceiling.

Your federal-contracting briefing: 1 new item across awards, policy, and analysis.

The Department of Veterans Affairs opened a 60-day public comment period, closing November 2, 2026, on renewing without changes its rule requiring offerors on management-support and consulting solicitations to disclose organizational conflicts of interest.

Your federal-contracting briefing: 6 new items across awards, policy, and analysis.

Your federal-contracting briefing: 6 new items across awards, policy, and analysis.

OMB's Cost Accounting Standards Board finalized a rule raising the dollar threshold for full CAS coverage and Disclosure Statement requirements from $50 million to $100 million, effective October 1, 2026, following unanimous support in public comments.

The Office of Management and Budget's Cost Accounting Standards Board finalized a rule rescinding Cost Accounting Standard (CAS) 407, effective October 1, 2026, to bring the requirement in line with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.

The Federal Highway Administration, Federal Railroad Administration, and Federal Transit Administration finalized a rule on September 1, 2026 rewriting their NEPA implementing regulations, effective the same day.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development has obligated $32,059,025.55 to Phoenix Oversight Group LLC, a small business, for FHA Catalyst platform development support running through May 21, 2027.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has obligated $35,745,283.59 to Procentrix, LLC for IT support across three ICE case-management systems, with a ceiling of $45.8 million and performance running through March 31, 2027.

The Internal Revenue Service has obligated $134,457,569 to Coast Professional, Inc. under a private debt-collection delivery order awarded through GSA's Federal Supply Schedule, with performance running through September 22, 2026.

Your federal-contracting briefing: 1 new item across awards, policy, and analysis.

Your federal-contracting briefing: 1 new item across awards, policy, and analysis.

The Maritime Administration cut the Title XI shipyard financing program's application fee from $5,000 to $1,000 and eliminated 14 of 34 regulatory sections, effective August 28, 2026, with a 60-day public comment window.

Your federal-contracting briefing: 2 new items across awards, policy, and analysis.

Your federal-contracting briefing: 2 new items across awards, policy, and analysis.

Booz Allen Hamilton's GSA OASIS task order for Army threat analysis, training, and readiness support has reached $1,066,387,866 in total obligations after an August 24, 2026 modification, well above the $937 million ceiling reported at award in 2020.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope science operations contract with the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy has reached $2.53 billion in total obligations, following an August 24, 2026 modification extending performance through October 31, 2026.

Your federal-contracting briefing: 3 new items across awards, policy, and analysis.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has awarded Dell Federal Systems L.P. a $27,780,623.73 blanket purchase agreement call for Microsoft Enterprise Software Licenses and unified specialized support, running through March 2027.

NASA has obligated $822,965,672 to the California Institute of Technology under a sole-source task order supporting the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Psyche mission to a metal-rich asteroid, with a period of performance running through September 2028.

Your federal-contracting briefing: 1 new item across awards, policy, and analysis.

Federal spending records show a $4.4 billion NASA contract held by Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation for Ares I first-stage development — signed in 2007 for a Constellation program launch vehicle NASA cancelled in 2010 — received a recorded modification this week.

Your federal-contracting briefing: 3 new items across awards, policy, and analysis.

Your federal-contracting briefing: 3 new items across awards, policy, and analysis.

The Department of Labor's OFCCP has finalized a rule rescinding federal contractors' disability self-identification, related data collection, and utilization-goal analysis requirements under Section 503, effective September 21, 2026.

The Department of Labor's OFCCP has published a final rule, effective September 21, 2026, that removes cross-references to the revoked Executive Order 11246 from VEVRAA veteran-hiring regulations and updates the contractor coverage threshold to $200,000.