Protecting Our Nation’s Data: Cybersecurity Compliance for Government Contractors
Intellectual Property In Department of Defense Contracting
Additional Compensation from the Government: A Brief Comparison of REAs and Claims
Webinar: Trademarks and Government Contracting
Buy American: What Government Contractors Need to Know
Federal Contracting Overseas: Insider Tips for Ensuring Compliance with Host Country Laws
Navigating the FAR/DFARS: The Most Confusing and Little Known Clauses
Government Contracts Cyber Café: 2019 Wrap Up and Privacy, CMMC, and GRC in 2020
The Government Contracts Cyber Café: Recent Developments Update
Government Contracts Cyber Café Series: An Inside Look at DFARS Compliance Data
Government Contracts Cyber Café - Crisis Management: Beyond Compliance
Federal Cybersecurity Requirements
Last year we made some predictions about 2024’s cyber landscape and major issues. Several proved prescient, with incident reporting, CISO scrutiny, SEC aggression, and new regulation of various sectors taking shape as the...more
Department of Defense (DOD) Rules: Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) - On September 26, DOD published five final rules and three proposed rules to amend the DFARS. The final rules are effective...more
Agency for International Development (USAID) Final Rule: USAID Acquisition Regulation (AIDAR), Security and Information Technology Requirements - On March 20, USAID published a Final Rule amending the AIDAR to incorporate...more
SBA to Require Individually-Owned 8(a) Firms to Support Social Disadvantage Prior to 8(a) Award Approval - As PilieroMazza recently reported, on July 19, 2023, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee...more
Several recent US governmental regulatory actions intended to combat forced labor serve as a reminder to government contractors and importers of their need to conduct appropriate “know your supplier” due diligence to identify...more
GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS - Federal Court Prohibits SBA’s Use of Rebuttable Presumption for 8(a) Program - On July 19, 2023, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee issued an important decision where...more
GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS - GAO Sustains Rare Bid Protest Challenging Agency’s Corrective Action - In February 2023, the Department of Energy (DOE) agreed to take corrective action following three bid protests filed at the...more
2023 promises to be a pivotal year for cybersecurity in government contracts. Besides the implementation of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program, new regulations are coming for civilian contractors,...more
On March 15, 2021, President Biden signed into law the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act of 2022 (CIRCIA), which will require critical infrastructure owners and operators (among other things) to report...more
Executive Order Will Guide $52 Billion Chips Act Funding - A new executive order is creating an interagency steering council to assist in the disbursement of $52 billion in manufacturing subsidies and research funding from...more
The Government Contracts and Global Trade Group is pleased to provide a summary of some of the key class deviations and other memoranda published by U.S. Government agencies implementing the federal contractor COVID-19...more
The Colonial Pipeline cyberattack prompted the issuance of a long-awaited executive order (EO) on improving U.S. cybersecurity. The EO mandates that, within six months, all federal agencies implement multi-factor...more
On May 12, 2021, President Biden issued an Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity following a series of highly publicized cybersecurity incidents during the first four months of his presidency, including the...more
On April 8, 2020, the Department of Defense (“DOD”) issued Class Deviation Number: 2020-00013 authorizing Contracting Officers (“COs”) to deviate from the principles listed in Federal Acquisition Regulation (“FAR”) Part 31...more
GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS LAW - This Project Is Behind Schedule - What Is a Contractor to Do? - Construction projects rarely, if ever, go precisely as planned. One of the most common issues government contractors face is...more
The Department of Defense (DOD) and its component services and agencies are taking several independent steps to assess and enhance their cyber and supply chain security that will directly or indirectly affect DOD contractors...more
FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATIONS - Federal Acquisition Regulation; Paid Sick Leave for Federal Contractors - The Department of Defense (DoD), General Services Administration (GSA), and NASA are adopting as final, without...more