Our Government Contracts Group discusses what small and large businesses can do to prepare for the potential elimination of federal set-aside and subcontractor preference programs under the Small Business Act (SBA)....more
Our Government Contracts Group examines how companies can prepare for the Trump Administration’s Rate Change Notice despite the uncertainty of the temporary restraining order that put it on hold....more
Our Government Contracts Group highlights what government contractors and grant recipients need to know about President Trump’s Executive Order revoking diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs and initiatives (EO...more
2/18/2025
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On May 12. 2021, President Biden signed an Executive Order aimed at improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity by curtailing data breaches and malicious cyber campaigns. The Order comes in response to a number of recent...more
The Paycheck Protection Loan program created by the CARES Act thrust the U.S. Small Business Administration’s complicated size standards into the spotlight for many companies that never before waded into those muddy waters....more
To curb the threat of U.S. foreign adversaries gaining access to critical infrastructure and stealing sensitive information, Congress passed Section 889 (“Prohibition on Certain Telecommunications and Video Surveillance...more
As previously discussed in a Law360 article by Jeffrey Belkin and Michael Mortorano, the DOJ’s Granston memo, dated January 10, 2018, “advised DOJ attorneys that, in tandem with their decisions to decline intervention in qui...more
On October 24, the Government Contracts team at Alston & Bird hosted its inaugural briefing in Washington, D.C. discussing the latest developments and industry updates in the government contracts space. Presenters included...more
Government contractors continue to closely follow the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark False Claims Act decision in Universal Health v. U.S. ex rel Escobar. Most recently, in U.S. ex rel Harman v. Trinity...more
On Monday, June 19, 2017, President Trump’s newly established American Technology Council met for the first time at the White House to begin discussions on modernizing government information technology (IT) systems. As...more
Every year, billions of dollars in products and services are needed to keep running the U.S. federal government’s 18 cabinet-level departments and nearly 100 other independent agencies. In March 2017, the Government...more
The Supreme Court has handed the Department of Justice and qui tam relators a bigger hammer to wield against government contractors with its opinion in Universal Health Services, Inc. v. United States ex rel. Escobar,...more