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  • Defense Contracting

    May 2020

    Key Ruling Issued on Privilege Waivers

    By Kevin T. Barnett and Michael Wagner
  • Defense Department

    March 2020

    We All Have a Role to Play in Ethical Innovation

    By Ron Szalkowski
    The defense industry should be on the lookout for the proverbial wolf in sheep’s clothing, especially since it’s entirely possible for companies to trick themselves into being the wolf.
  • Defense Contracting

    January 2020

    Supervisors Impact Culture as Ethical Leaders

    By Anne R. Harris
    A great deal of research has been conducted by organizations such as the Ethics and Compliance Initiative, Gartner and PwC, as well as academic institutions, into the subject of organizational ethics, integrity and culture.
  • Defense Contracting

    December 2019

    Companies Need Culture of Integrity

    By Steve Priest
    Compliance is not working; or at the very least, it is not working nearly as well as it should.
  • Ethics Corner

    November 2019

    Marijuana Laws Raise Issues for Contractors

    By Amy E. McDougal
    Recent years have brought a flurry of state legislation aimed at legalizing cannabis, or “marijuana.”
  • Defense Contracting

    September 2019

    Taking Corporate Compliance Programs Digital

    By Andrea Falcione
    It’s 2019, and compliance programs simply must keep up in the digital world. Consumers of content — compliance and otherwise — have heightened expectations in the digital age.
  • Ethics

    July 2019

    A Case Study in Compliance vs. Ethics

    By Anne R. Harris
    As a compliance and ethics consultant, I am often asked to clarify the difference. Usually, compliance is “black and white” — you’re either in compliance or you’re not — whereas ethics is rife with “gray areas.”
  • Defense Contracting

    July 2019

    Compliance Guidance for Smaller Contractors

    By Brian E. Sweeney
    In April, the Department of Justice issued updated guidance regarding the evaluation of corporate compliance programs to assist prosecutors in deciding whether they were adequate and effective at the time of an offense, as well as at the time of a charging decision. It builds upon earlier guidance and provides further specificity as to the factors the department will consider in their evaluations.
  • Defense Department

    April 2019

    Clarifying Export Control Internal Investigations

    By Usha Neelakantan and Daniel B. Pickard
    U.S. government contractors operating in the defense sector compete in a highly regulated and scrutinized market that is subject to investigation by federal enforcement agencies.
  • Defense Contracting

    January 2019

    Get on Board with EU Data Regulation

    By Robert Bond
    The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, which came into force last year, is the most significant development in data protection law in the past 20 years.
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