A Balancing Act: The 2026 NDAA’s Transformative Impact on Cost Accounting Standards

United States Capitol in Washington D.C. seat of the NDAA and CAS.

The landscape of federal defense contracting has undergone its most significant shift in decades. On December 18, 2025, the President signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2026 into law. While NDAAs are an annual tradition, the 2026 iteration is not merely a budget authorization; it is a manifesto for the Warfighting […]