Last month, the Pentagon announced it would be “Transforming the Defense Acquisition System into the Warfighting Acquisition System to Accelerate Fielding of Urgently Needed Capabilities to Our Warriors.” The proclamation serves…
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/ Government Contracting, Intellectual Property, Military Law
The U.S. Department of Defense will soon undertake a large-scale assessment of its data rights – and, where it sees gaps, look to contractors to fill them.
If the recently released National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Government Contracting, Intellectual Property
This month’s bid protest spotlight features one decision from the U.S. Court of Federal Claims and two decisions from the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) Office of Hearings and Appeals (OHA).
In CS 321 East 2nd Investors…
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/ Administrative Law, Business Organizations, Government Contracting
This month’s bid protest roundup highlights three recent decisions that address critical issues for federal contractors: the importance of contemporaneous documentation in proposal evaluations, the standards for overriding a…
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/ Administrative Law, Business Organizations, Government Contracting
This month’s Bid Protest Roundup focuses on three recent protests from the Government Accountability Office (GAO). The first protest involves discussions in the context of corrective action, the second pertains to the…
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/ Administrative Law, Commercial Law & Contracts, Government Contracting
On September 10, 2025, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) published its long-awaited final rule amending the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) to incorporate contractual requirements related to the…
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/ Administrative Law, Government Contracting, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
As small business provisions disappear from the Federal Acquisition Regulation (“FAR”) (perhaps to be relocated or perhaps to be permanently deleted) and reports of the use of a “Deregulation Tool” at the Small Business…
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/ Administrative Law, Government Contracting
As of August 28, 2025, the project to overhaul the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) has finished FAR Parts 1, 4-6, 8-12, 18, 26, 28-31, 33-36, 38-40, 43, 46, 48-51, and various sections of Parts 2 and 52. One can review the…
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/ Administrative Law, Government Contracting
The FAR Council has finalized, without changes, a 2024 interim rule that adjusted the requirements of FAR 52.204-7. This is the provision that governs an offeror’s registration in the System for Award Management (SAM). The…
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/ Government Contracting
In an effort to ameliorate perceived problems with the manner in which the federal government issues federal grant funding and the nature of the grants that it funds, President Trump recently announced a sweeping new grant…
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/ Administrative Law, Intellectual Property, Government Contracting
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has released new guidance in the push to consolidate federal procurement activities. The guidance, which expands on Executive Order 14240, aims to reduce waste and duplication by…
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/ Administrative Law, Government Contracting
This month’s Bid Protest Roundup focuses on three recent protests from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). The first protest involves an organizational conflict of interest, the second pertains to oral evaluations,…
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/ Administrative Law, Government Contracting, Science, Computers, & Technology
Earlier this year, the Department of Defense (DoD) published an “Intellectual Property Guidebook for DoD Acquisition.” It is the culmination of many years of work and the most insightful data rights guidance out of the…
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/ Government Contracting, Intellectual Property, Science, Computers, & Technology
Buried toward the bottom of President Trump’s Executive Order, titled “Unleashing American Drone Dominance” (the “Order”), is a mandate to identify military programs made more “efficient or lethal if replaced” by unmanned…
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/ Government Contracting, Military Law, Transportation
This month’s bid protest spotlight features a trifecta of decisions from the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.
In MVL USA Inc. v. United States, a consolidated bid protest involving seven protesters, the Court rejected protesters’…
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/ Administrative Law, Construction Law, Government Contracting, Military Law
