Trump Order to Guide Army’s Engineering Procurement, US Says (1)

July 2, 2025, 5:34 PM UTCUpdated: July 2, 2025, 6:12 PM UTC

The US Army will try to comply with President Donald Trump’s contracting executive order by seeking commercial vendors to meet its systems engineering and technical assistance needs, the government told a federal court.

The Army will begin communicating with commercial vendors July 15 to assess contracting vehicle options, and will solicit and award a commercial contract before Feb. 14, 2026, which marks the end of the SETA II contract, the government told Judge Zachary N. Somers of the US Court of Federal Claims in a Tuesday status report.

This decision comes during and in response to a multi-party protest seeking ...

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