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Last Friday, the U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ" or the "Department") announced that settlements and judgments under the False Claims Act ("FCA") reached a record $6.8 billion in fiscal year 2025 ("FY25"). This total, the highest in the statute’s history, follows the $2.9 billion that DOJ recovered in FY24 , underscoring both a surge in whistleblower activity and the Department's continued emphasis on emerging areas of government program fraud beyond the healthcare sector

In a late Friday news dump, U.S. Department of War Secretary Pete Hegseth posted a short video on X (f/k/a Twitter) announcing that the Pentagon will be taking a " sledgehammer to the oldest DEI program in the federal government—the 8(a) program." Effective immediately, the Pentagon will conduct a "line-by-line review" of all 8(a) sole source contracts over $20 million, "and we'll look at everything smaller than that, too." The watchword, according to Hegseth, is lethalit

The holiday season is in full swing and many of us are finding time for relaxation and family. For me, that’s meant light reading, cooking, cozying by the fireplace with movies, and listening to Taylor Swift songs on repeat with my daughter. With the downtime and Swift’s music still bouncing around my head, I thought it would be the perfect time to provide a fresh take on some recent bid protest data. Bid protests are an essential, yet often misunderstood, part of federal

[My #govcon  alerts provide a quick take  on recent news in the government contracting space.] There is an interesting development for anyone following the   Percipient.ai   bid protest saga that was before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit over the summer (discussed, in part, here ) . Following the Federal Circuit's en banc decision (7-4) in late August, which affirmed the U.S. Court of Federal Claims’ dismissal of Percipient.ai’s bid protest for lack of s

In what appears to be a first, the Government Accountability Office ("GAO") used its sanctions authority to dismiss a protest ( Oready,...

[My #govconthoughts  series provides a quick take  on recent developments in the government contracting space.] The recent Government...

This week's Weekly Debrief covers Lockheed's missile contract, the Air Force's pilotless cargo flights, HHS and data blocking, and the...

On August 25, 2025, the Office of Management and Budget Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs ("OIRA") cleared the Department of...

Pleased to announce that GovConJudicata's founder and government contracts attorney, Joshua Duvall , was recently honored by OrangeSlices...

This week's Weekly Debrief covers Starlink's recent outage, Anduril's $100m Army deal, research grant litigation, and bipartisan support...