Random Recall
This is the only mammal capable of true, sustained flight.
What is a bat?
DHACA requires contracting personnel to complete this standardized market research template before issuing any solicitation or award under FAR Part 12.
What is a Commercial Item Determination (CID) (or Commercial Product / Service Determination)?
"You can’t handle the truth!” is the iconic courtroom line from this military drama.
What is A Few Good Men?
Under Class Deviation 2026-O0045 (FAR Part 16 / DFARS 216), this contract pricing type has been designated as the default and preferred method for federal procurement.
What are Firm-Fixed-Price (FFP) contracts?
In Hocus Pocus, this trio of witches is accidentally resurrected in Salem on Halloween night.
Who are the Sanderson Sisters?
This everyday household appliance was inspired when an engineer noticed a candy bar melting in his pocket while working near radar equipment.
What is the microwave oven?
Now permanently codified at 10 U.S.C. § 3709, this pricing authority expedites sole-source defense contracts over $50M by relying on actual historical cost data.
What is TINA Lite?
In this 1992 comedy, the two young defendants are famously referred to as “the two yutes.”
What is My Cousin Vinny?
Non-statutory buying procedures, workflow tips, and best practices removed from the regulatory text of the FAR are being transferred into these non-regulatory resources collectively known as Strategic Acquisition Guidance.
What are Buying Guides (or the FAR Companion Guides)?
Before pumpkins became the jack-o-lantern of choice in America, people in Ireland traditionally carved these root vegetables.
What are turnips?
This condiment was sold as medicine in the 1830s, with claims that it could help digestive ailments.
What is ketchup?
Highlighting significant healthcare IT impact for contracts handling PII and PHI, Alert 26-35 disseminated the immediate DoD suspension of this cybersecurity compliance milestone originally scheduled for November 2026.
What is Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Phase 2?
This Michael Jackson song tells rival gangs that it doesn’t matter who’s wrong or right – they should simply do what the title says.
What is Beat It?
Under Class Deviation 2026-O0032 (FAR Part 31) and Class Deviation 2026-O0015 (FAR Part 44), this class of commercial and startup vendors is granted statutory exemptions from FAR cost principles and Contractor Purchasing System Reviews (CPSR).
What are Nontraditional Defense Contractors (NDCs)?
Beetlejuice must have his name said this many times before he appears.
What is three?
What is Play-Doh?
Following a recent personnel appointment, contract actions formerly routed to Hilary Lewis in PCF must now be submitted to this newly named Alternate Competition Advocate and Task-order/Delivery-order Ombudsman.
Who is Nick Ceciliani?
Sir Mix-a-Lot opens this hit by making his opinion about large posteriors abundantly clear.
What is Baby Got Back?
Under Class Deviation 2026-O0034 (FAR Part 43 / DFARS 243), the unilateral insertion of a clause implementing an Executive Order into a contract must be treated as a change under this standard FAR clause.
What is FAR 52.243-4 (Changes)?
This Halloween candy was originally marketed in the 1880s under the considerably less appetizing name “Chicken Feed.”
What is candy corn?
Before toilet paper became common, this item was reportedly mailed to customers for free and became a popular substitute in American outhouses.
What is the Sears Catalog?
Under DPCAP Notice 26-52, sole-source contract actions falling within the dollar range of greater than $50 million and less than $500 million must undergo this streamlined oversight process.
What is a Streamlined Peer Review (or Sole Source Peer Review)?
Los del Rio created an international dance craze with this 1990s song. Bonus Points if you still remember the dance (and come off camera to show us).
What is Macarena?
Pursuant to Executive Order 14173 ("Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity"), Class Deviation 2026-O0023 excised FAR subpart 22.8 and this longstanding mandatory clause from educational service agreements.
What is FAR 52.222-26 (Equal Opportunity)?
According to folklore, a person born on Halloween was traditionally believed to possess this supernatural ability.
What is a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup?