Happy Friday! With June wrapping up, we’ve officially reached the halfway point of the year. Mid-year is the perfect time for federal government contractors to focus on the goals ahead and prepare for new opportunities in the months to come. Here’s to finishing June strong and carrying that momentum into a productive and successful second half of 2026! We hope you have a wonderful weekend.

This week in federal government contracting news, a good chunk of the Revolutionary FAR Overhaul (aka “FAR 2.0” or the “RFO”) makes its way into formal rulemaking procedures, NASA expands total awards and introduces thousands of new awardees for SEWP (Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement)–NASA’s premier Government-Wide Acquisition Contract, the White House accelerates the governmentwide shift to post-quantum cryptography and stirs up some controversy with a no-bid contract award for its Reflecting Pool renovations, and GAO identifies some anticipated procurement challenges of cloud computing and also, reflects on 2025’s FraudNet Activity Report. But that’s certainly not all. Take a look at this week’s articles for more on these and other happenings in the federal procurement landscape this week.

• First 17 parts of the FAR move into formal rulemaking process
• Trump’s contracting controversies in the spotlight following no-bid Reflecting Pool deal
• More SEWP for contractors as NASA expands total awards
• White House PQC order ‘lights a fire’ under post-quantum transition
• GAO: Cloud Computing: Federal Government Needs to Address Procurement Challenges
• Over 1,000 pages on FAR overhaul heads to formal rulemaking process
• Agencies award $179B to small firms in 2025, down from 2024
• GAO verview: FraudNet Activity Report for Fiscal Year 2025
• NASA announces 2,100 awards under SEWP’s sixth generation