Jason Miller, Federal News Network, April 25, 2025
Kevin Rhodes, a senior advisor at OMB, said the team rewriting the FAR will be transparent and consider all comments as they slim down the 2,000 page document.
"When it comes to revamping 41 years of acquisition rules and regulations, the White House official leading this effort has a simple request.
Kevin Rhodes, a senior advisor at the Office of Management and Budget, is asking for a little patience and flexibility.
“This is going to be a little bit turbulent as the FAR is written and parts are being released and so forth, for comprehension sake. So be comprehensive of that and consider that, but the team will take those comments at face value, and we’ll try to make them work and useful. To characterize it or to capture it, work with the team as we go through this process, we will listen. That doesn’t mean everything will be adjusted or changed based on the inputs we get, but we will listen,” said Rhodes on Ask the CIO. “I would ask just for that as the team works through this there are a lot of people working very hard to overcome, again, a bureaucracy that has been built over four decades. That means it cannot be changed overnight. But the first thing is we have formally recognized with the President’s direction we are going to get after this problem.”