13 entries in the ledger
ICE posted a $16.7 million no-bid contract on Aug. 27 for 6,000 pairs of electric-shock gloves, signed the day before with Compliant Technologies LLC of Kentucky. The device, marketed as the G.L.O.V.E. — Generated Low...
Since last fall the Department of Homeland Security has spent $464 million on a no-bid contract for 10 used aircraft from Daedalus Aviation Corp., saying they were urgently needed for deportation flights. The New York...
An August 13, 2026 presidential memorandum directs the Secretary of War to deliver within 60 days a plan to replace the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System and the Advanced Weapons Elevators with steam and hydraulic...
Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg wrote to major U.S. defense contractors on August 5, 2026 asking them to submit plans by late August for “more aggressive delivery schedules and/or increased production capacity”...
The New York Times reported on Aug. 1 that President Trump's decision to buy 11 polar icebreakers followed a phone call to Finnish President Alexander Stubb and a subsequent golf outing, and that the resulting contracts...
A New York Times investigation published July 25, 2026 reported that Trump's push to put the Qatari-donated Boeing 747-8 into service quickly as Air Force One led to hundreds of millions of dollars in additional costs...
The Department of Homeland Security bought the Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego County and the California City Detention Facility in Kern County outright from CoreCivic in a sale that closed July 2, 2026, paying...
Reporting revealed that White House officials awarded a no-bid contract connected to the East Wing ballroom construction project, adding a procurement-oversight dimension to a project that had already drawn criticism...
On March 9, 2026, the AI company Anthropic filed two federal suits challenging the Defense Department's designation of it as a supply chain risk, a label that bars federal contractors from using its Claude models. The...
After Anthropic declined to lift restrictions on military uses of its AI models, Trump on February 27, 2026 ordered federal agencies to stop using the company's products, writing, "We don't need it, we don't want it, and...