Permanent Contract File

Contracting Meme Gang! (Gonna need a better name) We’re pretty close to 400 people and I need your help getting over the hump. Share the page with your contracting friends or your normie friends to confuse them and get us over the hump. Anyway, thanks for your continued support; you’re some kind of credit to your nation.

How it started Facebook group history records DoD Contracting Memes being created on August 18, 2020, renamed Contracting Memes on June 8, 2021, and renamed Contracting Memes Center of Excellence (CMCoE) on July 23, 2021. The original group description has not been recovered. In this July 22 post, Dan Cary calls it the "Contracting Meme Gang," says it needs a better name, and describes the group as close to 400 people. That is a dated founder statement, not a present-day membership count. In a January 27, 2024 reply in this discussion, Dan credits Joe Freeland with choosing the name: "Joe Freeland throwback to when you chose the group name!" This preserves the founder's attribution, without claiming the phrase's first-ever use. The June 8-10 sources in this exhibit already feature role confusion, obscure FAR references, warrants, customer pressure for sole-source awards, paper contract files, end-of-year overload and workplace burnout. Those are themes visible in the selected records, not a measurement of the entire group. The founding-day image may be a cover-photo event. Dan later called a June 8, 2021 post "First meme!" The distinction remains open. This exhibit is a growing early-history collection; it is not a complete chronology or the verified first twenty posts. Source review: October 14, 2026. Facebook displayed 35 comments; 6 selected founder comments were retained privately. This public page does not reproduce the complete discussion. Display headings, image descriptions and this historical context are AI-assisted editorial interpretation; the original caption and preserved image are separate source material.