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 ...

The top 100 federal contractors have accumulated 673 cases of admitted or alleged misconduct and paid $26 billion in penalties related to those cases since 1995, according to a government watchdog ...

Industry officials are concerned that a new law providing the public with access to a federal contractor database could have the unintended consequence of creating a politically motivated blacklist of ...

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 ...

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 ...