Ending Double Dealing Act of 2026

Key Points

• This bill would ban the Department of Defense from hiring consulting firms that also do business with foreign adversaries like China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and Cuba. The goal is to stop situations where a company helps the U.S. military while also helping a country that works against American interests.
• Any company bidding on a Defense Department consulting contract must disclose whether it has worked with any covered foreign entity in the past five years, including whether those contracts are still active or if it still holds unspent funds from such entities.
• Companies that fail to disclose their foreign ties face stiff penalties: the Defense Department must cancel their contract and start a process to ban them from all government contracting for up to five years.
• The bill covers a broad range of foreign adversaries including the Chinese government, the Chinese Communist Party, the Russian government, sanctioned entities, state sponsors of terrorism, and entities on Commerce Department export control lists.
• Companies can get back in the Defense Department's good graces by certifying they have ended all ties to covered foreign entities and promising not to pursue new ones while receiving Defense Department funds.