Stephanie Kostro

For contractors, the 2024 budget request doesn’t quite add up

Federal contractors don’t see a lot of room for growth after inflation in fiscal 2024, with a few large agencies actually requesting a reduction in funding…

Contracting

Is the carbon-emissions reporting rule for contractors setting companies up for failure?

Green Buildings

Amelia Brust/Federal News Network

Contractors have differing views on that non-compete proposed rule

Contracting

Amelia Brust/Federal News Network

The more industry peels open the omnibus bill, the stranger it looks

Contracting

Amelia Brust/Federal News Network

Services contractors are dealing with a lot of new federal mandates

Contracting

50,000 companies on hold because of GSA’s UEI validation problems

Reporter's Notebook

FILE - Syringes with doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, are shown next to vaccination cards March 13, 2021, in Seattle. The District of Columbia government is imposing a series of COVID-19 vaccine mandates as it intensifies virus protocols in response to spiraling infection numbers and the march of the omicron variant. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Contractors are suddenly facing a slew of mandates and they’re all expensive

Contracting

White House prepares for partial lift on federal contractor vaccine mandate ban

Agency Oversight

Union organizers gain access to contractors working on government projects

Contracting

Contractors say this latest labor proposal aims to fix a non-existent problem

Contracting

FILE - The Pentagon is seen from Air Force One as it flies over Washington, March 2, 2022. The U.S. military says explosions earlier this month on a base in eastern Syria that injured several U.S. service members were not, as it originally reported, caused by artillery or another form of indirect fire. Instead, it is now believed the April 7 attack was carried out by the “deliberate placement of explosive charges” by one or more individuals at an ammunition holding area and shower facility on the base, according to a statement issued Thursday by the Operation Inherent Resolve command that oversees U.S. military operations against the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

How the Pentagon is messing up a crucial contract finance study three years in the making

Contracting

First Look

Growing frustrations puts GSA on hot seat to fix the transition to UEI

Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), chairman of the Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Government Operations, wrote to GSA on July 15 seeking answers to why…

Reporter's Notebook

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

Contractors are eyeing possible passage of a big aid-to-Ukraine bill

Defense

The Senate could vote tomorrow on a $40 billion military aid package for Ukraine. It’s already passed the House. Whatever happens, it will require contracts and contractors.