The nation’s federal contractors—those companies that provide goods and services across the government are held to a higher standard for attaining employment diversity. That means they’re supposed to ...

A bill mandating the creation of a federal contractor misconduct database is one step closer to becoming law, but a lack of support in the Senate has forced Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., its primary ...

Sixty-three of the 100 firms receiving the most federal contract money in fiscal 2009 have multiple instances of documented misconduct, according to an updated version of the Federal Contractor ...

A watchdog group says plans to create a database of contractors’ past performance and alleged misconduct are not transparent enough, but a group representing contractors says the database may not be ...

The House of Representatives draft version of the fiscal 2026 defense policy bill would require the Pentagon to create and maintain a database of all commercial vendors involved in clandestine ...

A new law will make public a database on contractors' past behavior that is now available only to the government, and some contracting groups worry the information could be misinterpreted. The Federal ...

Did the federal acquisition councils go too far or not far enough in designing a new database for contractors’ past performance and legal compliance? That depends on whom you ask. Some of the 16 ...