One federal contract attorney called a recent Department of Defense memo a “kick in the teeth.” 

She was speaking with clients about how record inflation was impacting their existing contracts, some of them almost a decade old, and how the agency instructed contract officers on how to address requests for help with inflation-related costs: “There is no authority for providing contractual relief for unanticipated inflation under a firm-fixed-price contract.”

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