By Nick Wakeman,
Editor-in-Chief, Washington Technology

An even larger number of contracts are seeing modifications that drop requirements related to diversity, equity and inclusion.

President Trump’s push to rollback of diversity, equity and inclusion requirements has started to hit specific contracts and task orders.

Most of the contracts we have identified, so far, are tagged with orders to modify and/or remove requirements related to DEI. We are working to identify more of course.

In one example, the Energy Department has removed DEI requirements from a $20 billion contract with the University of California system to manage the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Using information from the GovTribe data base and USASpending.gov, we found three contracts that are cancellations and are tagged with “stop work” or “termination” orders.

Ernst & Young had a $3 million contract with the Department of Housing and Urban Development cancelled on Friday. The contract support implementation of Biden administration executive orders.

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