You’re Hired! Restrictions on Hiring Former Government Employees for Government Contractors
False Claims Act Insights - Rogue Employees: Vicarious Liability Under the False Claims Act
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Inside the SBA’s Full-Scale 8(a) Audit: What Participants Need to Know Now
False Claims Act Insights - The Latest on Zafirov and the Future of Qui Tams
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From Compliance Certification to False Claim: The New DEI Risks Facing Federal-Funding Recipients
The FTC's Interest in Governance Matters: Board Oversight, Compliance and Awareness
False Claims Act Insights - Understanding HIPAA Disclosures When Responding to CIDs in FCA Investigations
AGG Talks: Government Insight for Life Sciences Leaders | How Medicare Regulations Could Affect Access to Gender-Affirming Care: Implications for Life Sciences Companies
Avoiding Common Teaming and Subcontracting Pitfalls
Overcoming the Compliance Minefield, Part 3: Build Indirect Rates That Stand Up to DCAA Scrutiny
Maximizing Recovery: Tactics for Stop Work REAs and Termination Proposals
November 2025 Monthly Minute | The Federal Government and AI
FCA Implications for M&A Transactions
Chatbots, Trust and Helplines
The Lobby Bar: a Political Law Podcast | Welcome to the Lobby Bar: Battleground 2025 – Navigating Pay-to-Play Laws
What's New with the False Claims Act?
Overcoming the Compliance Minefield of Cost-Reimbursement Contracts, Part 2: Mastering DCAA Audits in Cost-Plus-Fixed-Fee Contracts
On February 2, 2026, the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) and the Trump Administration announced Project Vault, a $12 billion initiative establishing the U.S. Strategic Critical Minerals Reserve. This...more
U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Notice: Procurement Thresholds for Implementation of the Trade Agreements Act of 1979 On February 3, USTR published a notice providing the U.S. dollar procurement thresholds to implement...more
On February 11, 2026, the U.S. Small Business Administration issued a press release announcing that it was initiating termination proceedings and suspending over 150 Washington, D.C.-based 8(a) firms for allegedly failing to...more
On January 28, 2026, the United States Civilian Board of Contract Appeals (CBCA) issued final rulemaking to address its role in hearing and resolving disputes under the Administrative False Claims Act (AFCA), formerly known...more
Over two years ago, the Northern District of California issued an order requiring the OFCCP to disclose EEO-1 Type 2 reports to the Center for Investigative Reporting (“CIR”) over the objections of thousands of employers, as...more
Prezados e prezadas, O “Brasília em Pauta” é um boletim semanal preparado pela equipe de Contencioso de Brasília, contendo os principais casos a serem julgados pelo Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF), Superior Tribunal de...more
On February 6, 2026, Judge Jeannette A. Vargas of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York granted a temporary restraining order (“TRO”) blocking the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (“DOT”) suspension...more
Healthcare workers, billing specialists, and medical professionals frequently encounter fraudulent practices that drain billions of dollars from Medicare programs annually. Yet many individuals who witness these schemes...more
This is not the macabre tale of MacBeth. It is the new legal reality. The EEOC’s sweeping subpoena to Nike signals a dramatic change in EEOC enforcement posture toward Diversity, Equity & Inclusion programs previously...more
The striking down of Texas’ law could set up broader constitutionality assessment for pro- and anti-ESG laws nationwide....more
All of us were treated recently to the latest statistics from the Department of Justice for 2025. By all accounts it was a record year for both the Department of Justice and relators, over $6.8 billion in total recoveries,...more
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has reportedly begun investigating diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs of federal contractors and other recipients of federal funds under the False Claims Act (FCA), as we...more
On January 22, 2026, the Fraud Section of the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Criminal Division published its Year in Review for 2025. The report summarizes activity across the Fraud Section’s Health Care Fraud (HCF),...more
The Department of Justice (DOJ) released its Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 False Claims Act (FCA) results, and the message for government contractors is clear: FCA enforcement is accelerating, and procurement fraud, cybersecurity...more
Fiscal year (FY) 2025 was a groundbreaking year for the False Claims Act (FCA) in several respects. Recoveries under the statute reached an all-time high of nearly $7 billion, more than double those in each of the prior...more
Following the Ninth Circuit’s July 2025 decision holding that EEO‑1 workforce data is not protected “commercial” information under FOIA Exemption 4, and the court’s subsequent December 29, 2025 mandate requiring the...more
On February 6, 2026, in National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education v. Trump, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit vacated a nationwide preliminary injunction that had temporarily blocked key...more
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has rescinded some Biden-era directives on software supply chain security. As a result, software vendors to the federal government may see changes to federal agencies' secure...more
Assuming any covered contracts still exist. The U.S. Department of Labor has announced that federal contractors subject to Executive Order 13658, Establishing a Minimum Wage for Contractors, must increase their minimum...more
Any cloud service provider seeking to offer cloud services to the German public sector will inevitably have to deal with the Supplementary Contractual Conditions for the Procurement of IT Services (Ergänzende...more
CMS issued an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on January 29, 2026 soliciting public input on how to incentivize Medicare participating hospitals’ participation in buying PPE and essential medicines from domestic...more
The FY 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), signed into law on December 18, 2025, represents more than a statutory vehicle for annual defense spending. With a topline authorization of $900.6 billion, the Act now...more
Last week, the OIG posted two important issuances on Direct to Consumer drug programs, including TrumpRx – a Special Advisory Bulletin and a Request for Information (RFI)....more
Europe is reshaping its defence industrial landscape through coordinated policy, funding, and regulatory reforms to close capability gaps and strengthen supply chains by 2030....more
Welcome to Holland & Knight's monthly defense news update. We are pleased to bring you the latest in defense policy, regulatory updates and other significant developments. If you would like additional information on anything...more