The president’s latest executive order requires agencies to shift away from cost-reimbursement contracts, making fixed-price deals the “default” approach to procurement.

It follows a 30% reduction in the acquisition workforce at the General Services Administration over the past year.

While past administrations have tried to reform the FAR, Josh Gruenbaum believes “this time is different” with the use of AI.

Spurred by an April executive order, the Trump administration plans to issue a slimmed-down version of the Federal Acquisition Regulation later this year.

The president’s executive orders call for changes to the Federal Acquisition Regulation and an examination of agency buying processes.

The president’s new cyber EO aims to bolster the open-source software agencies use and update requirements for software providers that sell to the government.

The agencies said in a Federal Register posting that the Federal Acquisition Regulation should align with a NIST cyber workforce framework.

Many in government and industry want software bills of materials to be the development compliance standard.