SmallGovCon Week in Review: January 20-24, 2025

Happy Friday, Readers! We hope you had a great week and are ready for the weekend. We are looking forward to our weather finally warming up and melting off some of this snow in the next few days. The respite from the very cold temperatures will be a nice change. Have a good weekend in your neck of the woods!

This week in federal government contracting…

• SBA Administrator Guzman Outlines New MySBA Digital Experience Transforming How Business Owners Interact with SBA
• A regular Federal Drive guest departs for a job in the new administration
• Trump will require agency plans to slash workforce as he lays out hiring freeze details
• Military contractor to pay $1.2 million to United States to settle False Claims Act allegations
• GovCon Index Marks 1st Weekly Win in 2025, Posts 7th Consecutive Daily Gain
• Hiring Freeze
• GSA will ‘recommit’ to ‘founding purpose,’ says acting administrator
• Contractors and agencies alike await a new Trump reality
• Trump administration directs all federal diversity, equity and inclusion staff be put on leave
• Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity
• Trump revives executive order aiming to strip some federal employees of civil service protections
• OPM creates email account to report suspected diversity and inclusion initiatives

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