FAR Agenda Narrows, with CUI and OCI Rules Moving Forward
The Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council (FAR Council) released its Spring 2025 regulatory agenda as part of the government-wide Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions , unveiling a slimmed-down list of procurement rules. In line with the Trump administration’s deregulatory priorities, t he FAR Council dropped several policy-oriented initiatives while maintaining a focus on two rules that strike at the core of procurement and information security — controlled unclassified information (CUI) and organizational conflicts of interest (OCI) . The agenda marks a narrowing compared with the Biden administration’s fall 2024 Unified Agenda, which had included more than 40 FAR-related rules. The Spring 2025 list contains fewer than half that number, reflecting what contractors and practitioners are already describing as the administration’s “one-in, ten-out” regulatory philosophy seen in Executive Order 14192 . Rules Removed from Agenda Several rules championed by the...