Executive Actions Tracker

This memorandum directs the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and the United States Trade Representative, in coordination with the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council, to identify Canadian origin items in the federal civil procurement system that can be removed or made non-available for purchase, in response to Canada's "Buy Canadian" procurement preferences. The Director must notify agencies of domestic alternatives to Canadian origin items and periodically update the President on implementation. The Trade Representative must monitor Canada's treatment of U.S. origin items in Canadian federal and provincial procurement markets and advise the President on any need for further action or for restoring a Canadian item's availability.

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This EO directs the Secretary of War and the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish, within 180 days, updated information technology systems and guidance for ongoing sharing of Official Military Personnel Files and Service Treatment Records, deploy AI-based digital tools consolidating veterans' benefits access, and, within 30 days, ensure records transfer to the Department of Veterans Affairs immediately upon a service member's discharge. It also requires, within 120 days and in consultation with HHS and OMB, review and modification of existing IT contracts to add interoperability requirements, and directs the Secretary of War, within 180 days, to update the Transition Assistance Program to connect separating service members to jobs, training, or apprenticeships and to veterans' benefits representatives.

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This EO declares a national emergency under IEEPA and the NEA with respect to foreign-supplied bulk-power system electric equipment, and prohibits any acquisition, importation, transfer, or installation of foreign-produced bulk-power system electric equipment initiated after the order's date where the Secretary of Energy, in coordination with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and other officials, determines the equipment is tied to a "Covered Foreign Entity" and poses an undue risk to national security or critical infrastructure. The Secretary of Energy may impose conditions on equipment installed before the order, negotiate mitigation measures, establish a pre-qualified equipment and vendor list, and must publish implementing rules within 120 days. Within 180 days, the Secretary of Energy must submit recommended Federal Acquisition Regulation revisions to prioritize U.S.-manufactured energy infrastructure in federal procurement, which the FAR Council must consider proposing within 90 days of receipt.

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This EO directs the Secretary of War and the Secretaries of the military departments to cease issuing waivers under 10 U.S.C. 4872(c)(1) for acquisition of covered materials beginning January 1, 2027, except where a prime contractor or subcontractor submits an accepted mitigation plan for removing non-compliant material from its supply chains. It further directs the Secretary of War, within 180 days, to develop guidance requiring contractors at all tiers to map critical supply chains, submit indentured Bills of Materials, vet suppliers for financial, foreign ownership, and manufacturing risks, and avoid "unreliable foreign supplier" sources, and to initiate regulatory action requiring contractors to qualify alternative sources. The Secretary must report to the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs every 6 months until January 1, 2028, and the order exempts Project Vault and U.S.-financed foreign critical mineral projects from its restrictions.

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This EO directs the transition of federal information systems to NIST-approved post-quantum cryptography standards, with the Director of OMB and the National Cyber Director coordinating the effort. Agency heads must designate PQC migration leads within 30 days, and OMB must issue guidance within 90 days requiring agencies to transition high value assets and high impact systems to PQC for key establishment by December 31, 2030 and for digital signatures by December 31, 2031. It also directs the FAR Council to publish proposed rules within 180 and 270 days requiring covered contractors to comply with NIST FIPS, including PQC-compliant algorithms, by December 31, 2030 and to implement vulnerability disclosure policies covering cryptographic vulnerabilities.

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This executive order establishes fixed-price contracts as the default and preferred method of federal procurement. It requires written justification by contracting officers for any non-fixed-price contract and written agency-head approval when the non-fixed-price value exceeds set thresholds ($100 million for the Department of War, $35 million for NASA, $25 million for the Department of Homeland Security, and $10 million for other agencies), with exceptions for emergency response and research and development for major systems acquisition. Within 90 days, each agency head must review and seek to modify, restructure, or renegotiate its 10 largest non-fixed-price contracts toward fixed prices, and must report semi-annually to the Director of OMB on approved non-fixed-price contracts. The Director of OMB must issue implementation guidance within 45 days, and the Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy must propose Federal Acquisition Regulation amendments and develop a fixed-price contracting training program within 120 days.

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This EO directs executive departments and agencies, within 30 days, to include in federal contracts, subcontracts, and lower-tier subcontracts a clause prohibiting contractors from engaging in "racially discriminatory DEI activities", defined as disparate treatment based on race or ethnicity in recruitment, employment, contracting, program participation, or resource allocation. Noncompliance may result in contract cancellation, termination, suspension, or debarment, and compliance is deemed material to payment under the False Claims Act. The Director of the Office of Management and Budget must issue compliance guidance, the Attorney General must consider False Claims Act actions against violators, the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council must amend the Federal Acquisition Regulation and issue interim guidance within 60 days, and each agency head must report on implementation to the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy within 120 days.

This EO directs the Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission to prioritize enforcement actions against sellers and manufacturers making false "Made in America" or similar American-origin claims, and directs the FTC to consider regulations providing that an online marketplace's failure to verify country-of-origin claims may constitute an unfair or deceptive act or practice. Agencies overseeing country-of-origin labeling shall consider regulations promoting voluntary labeling for U.S.-made products, and agencies overseeing government-wide acquisition contracts shall periodically verify American-origin claims, remove misrepresented products from procurement, and refer offending contractors or vendors to the Department of Justice for possible False Claims Act actions.

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This memorandum, addressed to the Secretary of War, determines pursuant to section 303(a)(7)(B) of the Defense Production Act of 1950 (50 U.S.C. 4533) that action is necessary to avert shortfalls in critical Department of War supply chains, and waives the requirements of section 303(a)(2)-(a)(6) of the Act for supply chains critical to reviving the defense industrial base. Covered supply chains include those supporting critical sectors identified in the September 2018 EO 13806 interagency task force report, including military aircraft, chemical/biological/radiological/nuclear protection, ground combat vehicles, nuclear warheads, radar and electronic warfare systems, shipbuilding, soldier systems, space systems, defense electronics and microelectronics, machine tools, the organic industrial base, and defense workforce training pipelines.

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This EO declares a policy to accelerate defense procurement by curbing major defense contractors’ stock buybacks and dividends when they are underperforming, failing to invest in production capacity, or not prioritizing U.S. Government contracts. It directs the Secretary of War to identify such contractors, require remediation plans, and—if issues persist—use available legal and contractual enforcement tools and add future contract clauses restricting buybacks/dividends and tying executive compensation to on-time delivery and increased production rather than short-term financial metrics.

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This EO aims to remove barriers for federal procurement and remove all FAR provisions not required by statute or essential to sound procurement. Within 180 days, the Administrator of the Office of Federal Public Procurement Policy (“Administrator”) shall take appropriate actions to amend the FAR to ensure that it contains only provisions that are required by statute or that are otherwise necessary to support simplicity and usability, strengthen the efficacy of the procurement system, or protect economic or national security interests. Within 15 days of the date of this order, each agency exercising procurement authority pursuant to the FAR shall designate a senior acquisition or procurement official to work with the Administrator and the FAR Council to ensure agency alignment with FAR reform and to provide recommendations regarding any agency-specific supplemental regulations to the FAR. The Administrator shall consider adding 4-year sunset provisions on the FAR provisions to be removed or reworked until this EO.

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This EO directs federal policy that agencies shall procure commercially available products and services, including those that can be modified to fill agencies’ needs, to the maximum extent practicable, including pursuant to the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act of 1994 (Public Law 103-355, as amended) (FASA). Within 60 days, each agency shall review all open solicitations/notices where a commercial option has not been identified and evaluate whether a commercial option is available. 30 days later, each agency shall evaluate proposed action to advance commercial options. Within 120 days, and annually thereafter, each agency shall provide a report to OMB detailing the agency’s compliance with FASA and its progress toward implementing this order. Whenever an agency proposes to solicit a non-commercial product or service, the applicable contracting officer shall provide the specific reasons a non‑commercial product or service is required. The approval authority shall review and approve or deny the proposal in writing.

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This executive order aims to accelerate U.S. defense procurement by reforming acquisition processes with a focus on speed, flexibility, and execution. It mandates a comprehensive review of existing acquisition process, internal regulations, acquisition workforce, Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System, and major defense acquisition programs.

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