Podcast - Navigating M&A Due Diligence: Safeguarding Security Clearances
Podcast - Change Condition Packages: Tips for Cleared Contractors
Podcast - Corporate Documents in the Context of Clearances
Navigating Personnel Security Clearances (PCLs)
Cybersecurity Insights: Updates on CMMC Implementation and CUI Identification
What Is an FCL and How Do I Obtain One?
Protecting Our Nation’s Data: Cybersecurity Compliance for Government Contractors
Intellectual Property In Department of Defense Contracting
The When, Where, Why and How of CMMC with Fernando Machado
Podcast - The State of Contractor Cybersecurity with Katie Arrington
What Do the Newly Released CMMC 2.1 Documents Mean?
Podcast - Third-Party Assessments and NIST SP 800-171
Third-Party Assessments and NIST SP 800-171
Cybersecurity for Government Contractors: Success Through Compliance Readiness
Overcoming the Inflation Crisis: The Ins and Outs of Inflation Relief for DOD Contractors
[Podcast] NSA Cybersecurity Services for Defense Contractors
Torres Talks Trade Podcast- Episode 2- Cybersecurity, the Department of Defense, and the Private Sector/Government Contracting
2022 NDAA: Important Considerations for Government Contractors
Compliance Into The Weeds - Retreat on DoD Cybersecurity for Contractors
On July 8, 2024, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, in its role as the chair of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, announced a notice of proposed rulemaking addressing amendments to CFIUS’s...more
On July 8, the U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that would expand the jurisdiction of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) to review...more
Department of Defense (DOD) Final Rule: Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS), Architect and Engineering Service Fees - On June 27, DOD published a final rule updating the DFARS increasing the fee limit...more
Small Business Administration (SBA) Direct Final Rule: Eliminating Self-Certification for Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses (SDVOSBs) - On June 6, SBA published a direct final rule amending its SDVOSB...more
Last week, the White House issued an update on President Biden’s October 30, 2023 Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence (the “AI EO” or “EO”). The update detailed...more
Welcome to The On-Ramp, the newsletter from Venable's Autonomous and Connected Mobility team. The On-Ramp explores legal and policy developments in the world of autonomous vehicles, smart infrastructure, and emerging mobility...more
On Friday, May 5, 2023, the U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) published a proposed rule that would expand the list of military installations subject to the jurisdiction of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the...more
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GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS - 2022 GAO Bid Protest Annual Report: Key Takeaways for Government Contractors - The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently released its 2022 Bid Protest Annual Report (Report), which...more
SBA Proposes Revisions to Ownership and Control Requirements for the 8(a) Business Development Program - As PilieroMazza noted, the Small Business Administration (SBA) released a major proposed rulemaking that will impact...more
On September 15, President Biden issued the first ever executive order (E.O.) regarding the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). While the E.O. does not change the law or regulations related to CFIUS...more
The interagency Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS or the Committee) hosted its 2022 Inaugural Conference on June 16, 2022. In its capacity as chair of CFIUS, the U.S. Department of the Treasury...more
DOJ and Treasury Announce Multilateral Russian Oligarch Task Force Called “REPO” - On March 16, 2022, Attorney General Merrick Garland and Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen met with representatives from Australia,...more
1. New Import Ban on All Products From China’s Xinjiang Region- In late December 2021, President Biden signed the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act into law. The new legislation creates a rebuttable presumption that any...more
The Government Contracts and Global Trade Group is pleased to provide a summary of some of the key class deviations and other memoranda published by U.S. Government agencies implementing the federal contractor COVID-19...more
LABOR & EMPLOYMENT - DOL Announces Proposed Rulemaking to Increase Wages for Workers on Government Contracts - The Department of Labor (DOL) announced a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to establish standards and...more
On Friday, July 9, 2021, President Biden issued Executive Order (EO) 14036, “Promoting Competition in the American Economy” (see recent alert here). The EO includes 72 initiatives by more than a dozen federal agencies in an...more
1. Chinese Trade Tensions Ramp Up- On June 3, President Joe Biden signed Executive Order 14032, replacing and superseding previous EOs that banned U.S. persons from purchasing and selling public securities of Chinese...more
LABOR & EMPLOYMENT - DOL Announces Proposed Rulemaking to Protect Tipped Workers, Clarify Use of the Tip Credit - The Department of Labor (DOL) announced a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to withdraw and re-propose one...more
On June 3, 2021, in one of his first major China-related actions, President Biden issued an Executive Order that amends, but keeps intact the core elements of, previous orders issued by President Trump prohibiting US Persons...more
On June 3, 2021, President Biden issued an Executive Order (EO) amending former President Trump’s November 12, 2020, EO 13959, which prohibited U.S. persons from engaging in certain transactions concerning the publicly traded...more
On March 12, 2021, a U.S. district court granted a temporary injunction requested by the Hong Kong-listed, Chinese electronics giant, Xiaomi Corporation (“Xiaomi”). The injunction blocks the U.S. Department of Defense (“DoD”)...more
The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), part of the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act enacted into law on January 1, 2021, will impose new beneficial ownership reporting requirements on many companies. The stated purposes...more
Effective as of January 1, 2021, Congress enacted - over President Trump's veto - the William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (the "NDAA"). As with any U.S. defense bill, the NDAA...more
The Congressional Oversight Commission released its seventh report, which focuses on the Treasury and the Department of Defense’s $700 million loan to YRC Worldwide, Inc. The report is highly critical of the loan, noting that...more