In category: DoD Contracts
Do Government Contractors Get Paid During a Shutdown?
When Congress ended the 2025 shutdown on November 12, 2025, it did not forget the people who had gone unpaid. Section 116 of Public Law 119-37 made federal employees whole. Section 120 rescinded reduction-in-force notices issued during the lapse and returned those employees to du… more
The FY2026 Defense Budget and Cleared Hiring: Which Programs Got Funded, and Where the Reqs Appear
In October 2025 the Department of Defense obligated $13.33 billion on contracts. A year earlier it obligated $29.01 billion. Congress had not passed the bill, and a 42-day lapse in appropriations sat on the year like a lid. Appropriations do not create jobs. They create the legal… more
How to Read a DoD Contract Award and Find the Cleared Jobs Before They Are Posted
On July 17, 2026, the Air Force District of Washington awarded Sigmatech Inc. a systems engineering contract worth $108,862,926. The money that actually moved that day was $43,183. Four hundredths of one percent. That gap is the most useful thing on the page, and almost nobody re… more
The DoD Hiring Freeze: What It Actually Does (and Does Not Do) to Contractor Hiring
At noon on January 20, 2025, every federal civilian position that sat vacant in the executive branch stopped being fillable. A presidential memorandum froze those billets in place and barred agencies from creating new ones. Defense contractors kept hiring the next morning. Key ta… more
DoD Contracts: AWS, Boeing, Integration Innovation Inc., Week of 9-8-25 to 9-12-25
9/8 AIR FORCE Linquest Corp., Herndon, Virginia, has been awarded a Small Business Innovation Research Phase III Task Order, with a not-to-exceed price of $98,715,100, for the development of a collaborative digital engineering ecosystem. This contract provides for the … more