Truth in Negotiations Act

Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, Tuesday, June 14, 2022. Wall Street is wobbling between gains and losses Tuesday in its first trading after tumbling into a bear market on worries about a fragile economy and rising rates. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

We get the latest on how inflation is impacting government contracting

New numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics are adding to concern that inflation is going to be with us for some time. The impacts to individual pocketbooks…

Contracting

FILE - This March 27, 2008, file photo, shows the Pentagon in Washington. The Pentagon said Tuesday, July 6, 2021, that it is canceling a cloud-computing contract with Microsoft that could eventually have been worth $10 billion and will instead pursue a deal with both Microsoft and Amazon. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

DoD’s commercial buying challenges

Commentary

Amelia Brust/Federal News Network

Bots starting to help DoD figure out right price for weapons systems

Defense

Sgt. 1st Class Jon Soucy

New DoD policy aims to crack down on alleged price gouging by TransDigm

Defense

DoD

TransDigm agrees to reimburse Pentagon following allegations of price gouging

Defense

501st Combat Support Wing Public/Airman 1st Class Jennifer Zima

A U.S. Air Force CV-22 Osprey assigned to the 352nd Special Operations Wing, RAF Mildenhall, U.K., performs a flyover during the Mi Amigo 75th anniversary flypast event at Endcliffe Park, Sheffield, U.K., Feb. 22, 2019. The aircraft flew over the park where thousands of U.K. residents honored the memory of the ten fallen U.S. Airmen who died when their war-crippled B-17 Flying Fortress crash landed to avoid killing residents and nearby children. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Jennifer Zima)

Pentagon hunting for other instances of price gouging in wake of damning spare parts audit

Defense

U.S. Marine Corps/Sgt. Justin M. Smith

Staff Sgt. Immanuel Garcia, a metal worker with Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force – Southern Command welds a support beam to support the pipe the Marines are replacing on Sep 19, 2018 in Trujillo, Honduras. The water valve was stuck at 80% shut-off effecting 6 local communities containing roughly 8,000 people. The Marines repaired the pipe to return water to the local communities.

IG: 4,400 percent profit margins show need for reform in DoD spare parts market

On DoD

Under new policy, DoD to reimagine cost, pricing data requirements for contractors

Defense

Aiming to speed procurements, DoD wants to reduce data demands on contractors

Defense

Pentagon wants more leeway on Truth in Negotiations Act

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