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No Password Required: LIVE From Sunshine Cyber Con

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Tamiko Fletcher —CISO at Kennedy Space Center With a Heart of Gratitude Tamiko Fletcher’s career at NASA began in 1999 as a cooperative education student. Her journey to CISO over the following 20 years is nothing short of...more

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Key Takeaways from SEC Speaks 2024 Event

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Last week, Paul Hastings attended the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Speaks 2024 event presented by the Practising Law Institute (PLI) in cooperation with the SEC on April 1 and 2. The SEC Speaks program provides...more

Wiley Rein LLP

Cyber and Government Procurement: An Update as the FASC Piles on Supply Chain Security Regulations

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We continue to track developments affecting government contractor cybersecurity and supply chains, as the federal government churns out proposals and rules. Wiley’s supply chain, cyber, government contracts, and national...more

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Weekly Update for Government Contractors and Commercial Businesses – January 2024

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Department of Defense (DOD) Final Rule: Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) Consolidation of DOD Government Property Clauses - On December 22, 2023, DOD issued a Final Rule amending the DFARS to...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Department of Defense Releases Long-Awaited CMMC Proposed Rule

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Two years after announcing the second iteration of the U.S. Department of Defense's (DoD) Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program, the DoD released its proposed rule that, if adopted, will implement the...more

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Wireless Roundup (December 2023)

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FCC Seeks Comment on Safeguarding and Securing the Open Internet: In this Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) proposes to reinstate the open Internet rules the...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Cyber Incident Reporting May Be “Material” for Federal Contractors

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Last month, the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council proposed new cybersecurity and incident reporting regulations for federal contractors on behalf of the Department of Defense (DoD), the General Services Administration...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

New FAR Cybersecurity Requirements for Federal Contractors

This is an advisory update of key responsibilities for contractors under a proposed new Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) rule that standardizes cybersecurity requirements for a Federal Information System (FIS). The...more

PilieroMazza PLLC

Weekly Update for Government Contractors and Commercial Businesses – October 2023 #2

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GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS - National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Final Rule: NASA Mentor-Protégé Program - NASA is finalizing amendments to the NASA Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement to reflect...more

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The FAR Council’s Proposed Cybersecurity Overhaul: Lots Of Questions, But Only Some Answers

In what can best be described as a tsunami of cybersecurity regulation, the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Council—consisting of the Department of Defense (DoD), General Services Administration (GSA), and National...more

PilieroMazza PLLC

Weekly Update for Government Contractors and Commercial Businesses – July 2023

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Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) and Service-Disabled, Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB): Certification; Correction, Small Business Administration (SBA) - SBA is correcting a final rule published in the Federal...more

Hogan Lovells

U.S. government bans the use of TikTok under government contracts

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On June 2, 2023, the U.S. Government issued an interim rule that bans the use of the popular social media application, TikTok, from government contracting. The Department of Defense (DoD), General Services Administration...more

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Weekly Update for Government Contractors and Commercial Businesses – March 2023

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GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS - Veterans Affairs Imposes Increased Cybersecurity Rules on Government Contractors - The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) released a final rule, effective February 24, 2023, amending the...more

Clark Hill PLC

Window on Washington – Vol. 6, Issue 44

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Outlook for This Week in the Nation’s Capital - Congress. The House and Senate are both in recess this week. When the Senate returns next week, it will hold a procedural vote on a bill to codify the right to same-sex...more

Clark Hill PLC

Window on Washington – Vol. 6, Issue 43

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Outlook for This Week in the Nation’s Capital - Congress. The House and Senate will return to DC this week for the lame duck session of the 117th Congress with continued funding of the government as the top priority. Current...more

Clark Hill PLC

Window on Washington – Vol. 6, Issue 42

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Outlook for This Week in the Nation’s Capital - Congress. Congress is in recess this week. Both the House and Senate will return to Washington next Monday, November 14th....more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Good News for Small Businesses Seeking Government Funding for Research and Development: SBIR/STTR Programs Extended Through 2025

Under the SBIR and STTR Extension Act of 2022 (the Act), signed into law last month, the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs were extended through fiscal year 2025....more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

The Beginnings of a Perfect Storm? DOJ’s Cyber Review Report, NSPM-33 Research Security Requirements and Aerojet’s $9 Million...

In July 2022, the Department of Justice (DOJ) released a Comprehensive Cyber Review report (the “Review”) summarizing its assessment of its own cyber-related activities and including recommendations focused on its...more

Clark Hill PLC

Window on Washington – Vol. 6, Issue 30

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Outlook for This Week in the Nation’s Capital - Congress. The House is in recess this week, though the Senate is in session with an expected busy agenda this week. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is currently leading a...more

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Aerojet Rocketdyne Agrees to Pay $9 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations of Cybersecurity Violations in Federal...

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On July 8, 2022, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced in a press release that Aerojet Rocketdyne Inc, a provider of advanced propulsion and energetics systems for multiple government agencies, reached a settlement...more

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Window on Washington – Vol. 6, Issue 29

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Outlook for This Week in the Nation’s Capital - Congress. The House and Senate are both in session this week, and they are gearing up for a busy calendar crunch ahead of their August recess, which begins on July 29 and August...more

PilieroMazza PLLC

Government Contractor to Pay $9 Million to Resolve FCA Allegations of Cybersecurity Violations

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On July 8, 2022, the Department of Justice announced that Aerojet Rocketdyne Inc.—a government contractor providing propulsion and power systems for launch vehicles, missiles and satellites and other space vehicles to the...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

CyberSecurity and the Aviation Industry . . . The Stakes are High

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Although aerospace and aviation companies are familiar with certain harms of cyberattacks, such as ransom demands, operational slowdowns, and compromised data of employees, passengers and others, a court ruling earlier this...more

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Cyber Compliance On Trial: Court Denies Summary Judgment In Aerojet FCA Case

Aerojet Rocketdyne received another blow last week in its long running battle to end a 2015 False Claims Act suit alleging it lied about its compliance with cybersecurity requirements in order to win several federal...more

Alston & Bird

Incomplete Cybersecurity Compliance Disclosures May Support Fraud Claim Under the False Claims Act, Federal Court Holds

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At the heels of a recent Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative related to cybersecurity practices and the False Claims Act (FCA), a cybersecurity-related FCA case has survived a motion for summary judgment, teeing up a trial to...more

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