Buying Faster than the Enemy Act of 2025
In committee: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- In committee
- Started in
- Senate
- Sponsor
- 1
- Latest action
- Mar 12, 2025
What it does
The Buying Faster than the Enemy Act of 2025 aims to accelerate defense procurement by streamlining the acquisition of commercial products and services, allowing the Department of Defense to issue follow-on sole-source contracts without further justification after competitive selection and expanding the use of nontraditional acquisition pathways. It modifies commercial solutions openings to reduce bureaucratic hurdles, limits the flowdown of contract clauses to subcontractors for commercial items to only those required by law, and updates procurement policies to favor commercial-off-the-shelf solutions unless a defense-unique need is formally justified. The bill also increases allowable…
AI summary · The lawmakers haven’t published an official summary of this bill yet, so 52 wrote this one from the bill’s text.
Where it stands
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Who is involved
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Where it goes next
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