Don’t wait: GovCon must prepare now for a potential shutdown
Congress remains deadlocked and Sept. 30 is a week away. That means contractors should dust off shutdown plans and take immediate action on invoices, contracts and cash flow. The market careens toward a government shutdown at the end of the month and plans, advice and guidance for how to operate during one are getting dusted off. […]
Fresh protest hits NGA’s Clover vehicle
A new challenge focuses on evaluation criteria rather than registration issues that derailed earlier awards for the $940 million professional services contract. Unsurprisingly, the protest saga surrounding the $940 million Clover contract continues following the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s decision to make new awards. This time around, the protest has nothing to do with the registration technicalities […]
Trump budget office is hiding federal spending information, ethics nonprofit alleges
Federal courts have ordered the Office of Management and Budget to publish information about how agency funding is disbursed, but Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington contends that officials are using footnotes to obfuscate disclosure. A progressive good government nonprofit has accused the Trump administration of not fully complying with a court order to publish […]
KBR plans spinoff of government business
This new, independent publicly-traded company would hit the market by mid-to-late 2026. KBR’s board of directors has approved a plan to spinoff its government services segment following a multi-year strategy to build up that part of the business. The unit currently called Mission Technology Solutions is poised to become a new, independent publicly-traded company by mid-to-late 2026 […]