The memo behind the August announcement is now public. It directs component procurement executives to repeal service-level supplements to the DFARS within 45 days or reclama specific sections under four narrow grounds, and lets components move useful process into non-regulatory guides.

DCMA and DCAA are directed to overhaul how forward pricing rate agreements are built. Estimating system and MMAS reviews are to be folded into commercial-aligned accounting system criteria within 90 days. Earned value management is confined to major development programs. And a DFARS profit policy rulemaking starts within 90 days.

FAR Case 2026-011, published 18 September 2026, would replace the FAR's SBIR data rights coverage with DFARS-based coverage, set a single non-extendable 20-year protection period, grant the Government purpose rights rather than unlimited rights after it expires, and add STTR coverage the FAR has never had.

Class Deviation 2026-O0046, Revision 1, posted 9 September 2026, revises DFARS Part 245 so that nontraditional defense contractors are exempt from DFARS 252.245-7003, Contractor Property Management System Administration, unless a contracting activity head waives the exemption.

DFARS Parts 244 and 231 were revised on 29 July and 4 August 2026 to implement FY2026 NDAA section 1826. Cost principles and purchasing system approval no longer apply to nontraditional defense contractors on Department of War contracts.

Class Deviation 2026-O0006, Revision 1, issued 30 July 2026, implements FY2026 NDAA section 1806 and doubles both the full-versus-modified CAS coverage line and the disclosure statement trigger. The CAS Board has since made the change government-wide effective 1 October 2026, but the FAR Part 30 overhaul text still carries the old figures.

Class Deviation 2026-O0037, Revision 1, issued 24 July 2026, absorbs the standalone SDVOSB class deviation, points eligibility verification at SBA's certification search, and corrects the sole-source 8(a) threshold to $100 million.

Class Deviation 2026-O0052, issued 4 August 2026, revises DFARS subpart 270.1 so that awards under the employee-owned business pilot no longer require a separate justification and approval.

The Department of War suspended CMMC Phase II on 13 July 2026 and stood up a reform task force. The self-assessment requirements that took effect in November 2025 are untouched. Updated 14 September 2026: the 60-day review milestone has passed with nothing published, and the operative acquisition instruction is now Class Deviation 2026-O0025, Revision 3.

A 24 July 2026 Department of War class deviation implements FY2026 NDAA sections 812(c), 1826, and 811(a)(5), converts the TINA Lite pilot into a permanent program, and changes should-cost review requirements.