IT leaders at the agency have flirted with the boundaries of ethical and legal limits with various ties to federal contractors, government experts say.

Millions of federal employees have been using OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude under OneGov deals that are expiring next month.

A bipartisan group of senators is asking the Office of Federal Procurement Policy for a plan to implement a law now two years overdue.

At a listening session, government contracting experts and AI companies said the revised rule is too vague and doesn’t follow current commercial contracting standards.

Public comment will open on Tuesday on four proposed rules to update the federal acquisition process.

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

The department’s inspector general says the VA in at least one case paid for work without verifying deliverables.