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The FY 2025 National Defense Authorization Act: What’s New for Defense Contractors

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The recently passed National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA or Act) for Fiscal Year 2025 addresses recurring areas of focus relevant to defense contracting, including supply chain risks related to China, organizational...more

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DoD Updates Data Rights Regulations for SBIR/STTR Programs

As of January 17, 2025, the Department of Defense’s data rights regulations and contract clauses look a little different, yet substantively very little has changed. The update is to formally incorporate changes the Small...more

Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

Dual-Use Ventures & Intellectual Property: SBIR Data Rights, Patents, and Deals

Dual-use ventures—startups that intend to sell both commercially and to the Department of Defense (DoD)—enjoy many advantages. You have a strong opportunity to secure millions of dollars of non-dilutive R&D funding through...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

DoD Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Contractors' Data Rights Protections Extended to 20 Years, Government Rights Limited...

Recipients of U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grants agree to give the U.S. government rights to non-commercial computer software and "technical data" (e.g., recorded information...more

Blank Rome LLP

DOD’s Extraction of Data Rights in Competitive Procurements

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When the Department of Defense (“DOD”) procures defense items that require substantial investment to design, test, and manufacture, it often seeks to acquire, along with these products, the contractor’s technical data package...more

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The Data Rights Black Hole: DoD Lobbies Congress To Eliminate Proprietary Rights In Your Most Valuable Trade Secrets — Your...

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, the Department of Defense (“DOD”) and industry came together after more than seven years of discussions and created a rational, logical, and fair constellation of regulations and...more

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The FY 2020 National Defense Authorization Act: What Government Contractors Should Watch For

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Congress is moving closer toward passage of the Fiscal Year 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Although key differences remain between the House and Senate versions of the bill, the legislation is ultimately...more

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Don’t Set Your Hair on Fire Yet over Data Rights Challenges Under the FY 2019 NDAA

Congress recently authorized the Department of Defense’s spending for Fiscal Year 2019 and, unsurprisingly, attached some strings in the guise of acquisition reform.  One of these is a modest change to the burden of proof in...more

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Congress Revisits the Data Rights Statutes and Advances Modular Open Systems Architecture in the FY 2017 NDAA

Although there usually is great validity in the aphorism that “no man’s life, liberty, or property is safe while the Legislature is in session,” we might have to rethink that notion when it comes to data rights. Congress did...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Inside DOD's Reasonable Approach To Data Rights Rule

On June 16, 2016, the U.S. Department of Defense issued a proposed rule to implement Section 815 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012. Industry and practitioners alike have awaited this proposal...more

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