DE Under 3: FAR Council Seeks to Require Federal Contractors to Report First-Tier Subcontractor Information, Including Potentially Executive Compensation Data
DE Under 3: OMB Announced Finalized Overhaul to Federal Race & Ethnicity Data Collection Standards
DE Under 3: OFCCP Resurrects Proposal for Monthly CC-257 Employment Utilization Reports for Construction Contractors
DE Under 3: FAR Council Submitted for OMB Approval Proposed Rule on “Pay Equity and Transparency in Federal Contracting”
DE Under 3: Surprises Lurk Throughout OMB's 2023 Spring Regulatory Agenda
DE Under 3: OFCCP’s Controversial “Pre-Enforcement Notice & Conciliation Procedures” Final Rule Coming Soon
DE Under 3: President Biden Issued "Modernizing Regulatory Review" Executive Order
DE Under 3: OMB’s Initial Proposal to Overhaul Federal Race & Ethnicity Data Collections
DE Under 3: OMB Publishes Its Fall 2022 Regulatory Agenda
DE Under 3: Big Changes Coming to OFCCP's Supply & Service Contractor ICRs
DE Under 3: Employment Poster Requirements & the U.S. DOJ’s First-Ever Criminal Anti-Trust Prosecution
DE Under 3: Data Gathering & Data Delivery
DE Under 3: New Data Collection Burdens, NLRB’s Ruling Regarding Union Election Dismissals, and OMB’s Tech Modernization Fund
Biden’s Modernizing Regulatory Review – A New Paradigm?
DoD Cyber: A Conversation with Melissa Vice, COO for DoD’s Vulnerability Disclosure Program
Is it the End of the EB-5 World as We Know it? How to Prepare for Potential Changes
I-14: Update on EEO-1 and I-9 Forms, Employer Obligations After a Hurricane or Other Natural Disaster, and Attorney Jason Barsanti on Meal and Rest Breaks
So far, 2024 has been another very busy year for U.S. cybersecurity regulation. Among the top priorities has been software security, as we previewed early this year. Companies that sell software to the federal government or...more
The expansion of artificial intelligence (“AI”) applications in healthcare (“Healthcare AI”) has made recent headlines, from the transformation of clinical diagnostics with increased accuracy, to use of personalized medicine...more
April 2024 On April 4, 2024, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (“CISA”) published a 447-page Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“Proposed Rules”) in accordance with the...more
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) held a webinar on April 4, 2024, which was followed by a White House announcement of the impending launch of revised regulations at Title 2 of the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations (2...more
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has issued a Request for Information (RFI) seeking public input on ensuring the responsible procurement of artificial intelligence (AI) systems and services by federal agencies. This...more
The commercial real estate market in the United States is undergoing a profound shift as building vacancy increases in most major markets and as trillions of dollars of financing are coming due in 2024....more
Soon after taking office, President Biden issued Executive Order 14008, entitled, “Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad.” This is an unusually long and complex executive order and includes many provisions relating...more
Who may be interested: Registered Investment Companies, Investment Advisers - Quick Take: The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, a division of the Office of Management and Budget, recently issued the Fall 2023...more
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has completed its every-five-year review of the Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards, commonly known as the "Uniform...more
On November 1, 2023, after the Biden administration’s October 30, 2023 release of its landmark executive order on artificial intelligence (“AI”), the Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”) released a draft proposed...more
With growing concerns related to how artificial intelligence is developed, regulated, and implemented in the United States, this Executive Order represents possibly the first of several governmental actions to address this...more
Following the landmark October 30, 2023 executive order on artificial intelligence (AI), the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a draft memorandum to federal agency heads for the use of AI within their...more
On September 21, the Biden administration approved recommendations from the Interagency Working Group on the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases (IWG), directing federal agencies to consider the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases...more
Shutdown Showdown. Rather than hurtling into a federal government shutdown, this week has been more of a slow, gradual, depressing slide into the shutdown, as it became apparent this week that last-minute measures to keep the...more
The federal fiscal year for 2024 (FY 2024) begins on Oct. 1, 2023, and if appropriations bills have not been enacted before that date or a temporary funding measure – known as a continuing resolution (CR) – has not been...more
On Thursday, June 15th, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released its spring regulatory agenda for 2023, chock full of surprises throughout. Tune into today's DE Under Three as our experts cover the major policy...more
Case Studies for Build America, Buy America Infrastructure Projects – Review of recent changes to government procurement and Buy America laws relating to infrastructure projects. Includes case studies covering construction...more
Yesterday we continued our series... with the Office of Management and Budget’s September 2022 memorandum requiring federal agencies to only use software from software producers that attest compliance with secure software...more
Beginning in 2019, the US federal government ramped up its involvement in, and regulation of, the use of artificial intelligence (AI). The federal government is grappling with how to incentivize AI innovation responsibly,...more
Monday, December 5, 2022: EEOC’s Union Settled Allegations Re Post-Pandemic Return to Work in the Office Policy - Republican Legislators Voiced Concern that EEOC’s Strategic Plan Did Not Address Return to Work in the Office...more
On October 17, 2022, President Biden signed into law the AI Training Act (the “Act”). The purported purpose of the Act is to ensure the federal government’s workforce has knowledge of how artificial intelligence (AI) works,...more
The DE OFCCP Week in Review (WIR) is a simple, fast and direct summary of relevant happenings in the OFCCP regulatory environment, authored by experts John C. Fox, Candee Chambers and Jennifer Polcer. In today’s edition, they...more
President Biden’s Discretionary Budget Request: Fiscal Year 2022 - On April 9, 2021, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) submitted President Biden’s discretionary funding request (the “Request”) to Congress for...more