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EO requires future contract provisions allowing salary caps and tying incentives to delivery/production/improvements.
I was unable to reliably access or locate the primary text of the January 7, 2026 Executive Order "Prioritizing The Warfighter In Defense Contracting" or an equivalent authoritative legal publication (e.g., Federal Register, official White House EO text) that specifies the detailed contractual requirements described in the claim. Available materials (like fact sheets and summaries) are secondary and not sufficient to verify with the level of precision required, and the Federal Register entry for this EO is still marked TBD. Because of this tooling and publication lag, I cannot conclusively determine whether the Order itself contains the exact provisions on capping executive base salaries and tying incentive compensation as described.
The appropriate verdict is Tech Error because the necessary primary-source text of the Executive Order is not yet accessible in official repositories, preventing a definitive fact check of the specific contractual requirements claimed.