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  • Defense Contracting

    October 2023

    Small Businesses Face Convoluted Eligibility Rules

    By Scott Freling and Carl Wiersum
    The Federal Acquisition Regulation Council recently published a proposed rule that would update the Federal Acquisition Regulation, or FAR, to implement the Small Business Administration’s 2020 changes to rules on when small businesses must recertify their status in connection with orders under multiple-award contracts.
  • Government Contracting Insights

    October 2023

    Proposal Would Make Losers Pay for Bid Protests

    By Stephanie Barna , Michele Pearce and Kayleigh Scalzo
    Section 804 of the House-enacted version of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2024 would establish a “loser pays” pilot program to require contractors to reimburse the Defense Department for costs incurred in “processing” bid protests that are ultimately denied by the Government Accountability Office.
  • Global Defense Market

    August 2023

    CFIUS Transaction Approvals Taking Longer

    By B.J. Altvater , David Fagan and Jonathan R. Wakely
    The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, or CFIUS, recently released the public version of its annual report to Congress regarding its review of certain transactions involving foreign investment during 2022.
  • Contracting

    August 2023

    Pentagon Targets Foreign Military Sales Reforms

    By Nooree Lee
    The Defense Department announced June 13 that the secretary of defense approved recommendations for strengthening the foreign military sales program and instructed FMS-implementing agencies to move forward with these recommendations.
  • Defense Contracting

    June 2023

    Federal Circuit Weighs In on Bid Protest Standing

    By Andrew Guy and Kayleigh Scalzo
    The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit May 10 issued a decision regarding bid protest standing in CACI, Inc.-Federal v. United States et al. In that decision, the court declared previous decisions to no longer be good law and held that the United States Court of Federal Claims erred in finding the protester to lack standing.
  • Defense Contracting

    May 2023

    Increased Climate Disclosure Burden Coming for Contractors

    By Chanda Brown , Alex Hastings and Bob Huffman
    Federal contractors are awaiting issuance of new procurement regulations targeted at ensuring public disclosure of greenhouse gas, or GHG, emissions and climate-related financial risk and also setting science-based GHG reduction targets.
  • Global Defense Market

    April 2023

    U.S. Foreign Military Sales Bounce Back

    By Nooree Lee
    In January, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency announced the U.S. arms transfer figures for fiscal year 2022, showing that U.S. defense sales to foreign militaries bounced back after two years of decline.
  • Defense Contracting

    April 2023

    Will 2023 Be an Inflection Point for CFIUS?

    By David N. Fagan , Brian Kim and Jonathan R. Wakely
    On the heels of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, pandemic-induced supply chain disruptions and U.S.-China tensions over Taiwan, 2022 accelerated a sweeping effort within the U.S. government to make national security considerations — especially with respect to China — a key feature of new and existing regulatory processes.
  • Defense Contracting

    March 2023

    2023 NDAA Makes Notable Changes to FedRAMP Program

    By Susan Cassidy , Moriah Daugherty and Ashden Fein
    On Dec. 23, President Joe Biden signed the James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2023 into law.
  • Budget

    February 2023

    2023 NDAA Provides New Opportunities for Industry

    By Stephanie Barna , Alex Hastings and Michele Pearce
    The 4400-page 2023 National Defense Authorization Act authorizes $858 billion in total defense spending and contains several provisions that will be of interest to companies across industries that do business with the U.S. government.
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