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The US Coast Guard has now signed fixed-price contracts for 11 medium icebreakers, the Arctic Security Cutters, worth about $6.8 billion together. The first is due in 2028. Its heavy icebreaker, the Polar Security Cutter, was ordered in 2019 and GAO now …
The General Services Administration’s Multiple Award Schedule is the federal government’s biggest catalogue of things it can buy without a …
In August 2025 the US government became one of Intel’s largest shareholders. It took 9.9% of the company, 433.3 million shares at $20.47 …
Since 2011 GAO has published an annual report on duplication, overlap and fragmentation in the federal government: programmes that do the …
GAO’s annual assessment of major weapons programmes, published on 2 July 2026, covered 104 programmes with planned spending of more than …
TikTok’s security chief was due to testify before the House Select Committee on China on 15 September. On 27 August the company pulled out, …
The United States will spend about 3.17% of its GDP on core defence in 2026, according to NATO’s estimates, and still accounts for about 60% …
On 23 December 2025 the Supreme Court refused, by 6 to 3, to let the administration deploy federalised National Guard troops in Illinois. …
On 16 July 2025 the Federal Railroad Administration terminated about $4 billion in grants to California’s high-speed rail project. The …
On 22 July the House adopted a fiscal 2027 budget resolution by 216 votes to 214. It sets up a third party-line reconciliation bill this …