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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
Good Afternoon! This is Akin’s biweekly policy newsletter on space policy and regulatory developments, providing information on major space headlines and forthcoming space-related events and hearings...more
2020 saw the implementation of several game-changing regulations for government contractors. None the least of these were related to DOD’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) and Section 889 of the National...more
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
Cybersecurity, supply chain risks, data rights, software acquisitions, and cost or pricing data are among the procurement-related issues targeted in the Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which...more
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
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
Having just presented on data rights issues to a number of government contracting officers and procurement professionals, as well as private sector contract management personnel, during the 2017 National Contract Management...more
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
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