WHAT: On January 14, 2025, less than a week before President Biden left office, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) published a final rule updating its Buy America rules to rescind...more
1/27/2025
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Buy America ,
Buy American Act ,
Department of Transportation (DOT) ,
Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) ,
Federal Contractors ,
Federal Highway Administration ,
Final Rules ,
Infrastructure ,
Manufacturers ,
Regulatory Freeze ,
Supply Chain ,
Trump Administration
On December 18, 2024, the Senate passed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025 (NDAA), which the House of Representatives passed the previous week. President Biden is expected to sign the bill into law...more
12/19/2024
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Defense Contracts ,
Department of Defense (DOD) ,
FCC ,
Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) ,
Federal Contractors ,
Federal Pilot Programs ,
Foreign Adversaries ,
GAO ,
Innovative Technology ,
NDAA ,
Popular ,
Robotics ,
Secretary of Defense ,
Semiconductors ,
Small Business ,
STTR ,
Supply Chain ,
Unmanned Aircraft Systems
WHAT: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a split decision in Nebraska v. Su holding that Executive Order (EO) 14026, commonly known as the $15 contractor minimum wage, exceeded the President’s authority...more
WHAT: The House Foreign Affairs Committee’s Technical, Industrial, and Governmental Engagement for Readiness (TIGER) Task Force has released a report identifying problems with the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) process and...more
WHAT: The Federal Acquisition Regulatory (FAR) Council has published a proposed rule that would bar contractors and subcontractors from considering covered job applicants’ prior compensation and require disclosure of...more
WHAT: Over a year after its notice of proposed rulemaking, the U.S Department of Labor (DOL) published its Final Rule Updating the Davis-Bacon and Related Acts (DBRA) Regulations. The Final Rule spans hundreds of pages of...more
8/15/2023
/ Bureau of Labor Statistics ,
Construction Industry ,
Construction Project ,
Davis-Bacon Act ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Federal Contractors ,
Fringe Benefits ,
Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) ,
Prevailing Wages ,
Service Contract Act ,
Wage and Hour
WHAT: In a prior alert, we discussed President Biden’s memorandum on the Conventional Arms Transfer (CAT) Policy. There, we mentioned that the U.S. Government is taking steps to improve its processes and programs for...more
WHAT: Over the past year, there have been indications that changes would be coming to the U.S. Government’s defense trade industry. From the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) Tiger Team established by the U.S. Department of...more
WHAT: In a prior alert, we discussed a report from the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA), National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA), and Professional Services Council (PSC) presented to a U.S. Department of Defense...more
WHAT: On February 23, 2023, the same day three major defense industry trade associations publicly released their report to the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DOD) Foreign Military Sales (FMS) Tiger Team on modernizing the FMS...more
WHAT: Concerned about competition with China and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) in August 2022 established a task force or “Tiger Team” of senior officials to look at ways DOD can...more
WHAT: The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) has issued a class deviation and related instructions pertaining to the procedures for offeror registration in the System for Award Management (SAM.gov)....more
WHAT: The nondisplacement rule’s revival continues as the U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) has published its proposed rule to implement Executive Order (EO) 14055, Nondisplacement of Qualified Workers under Service Contracts....more
WHAT: On December 7, 2021, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Federal Circuit) issued a decision in Harmonia Holdings Grp., LLC v. United States, No. 2020-1538, preserving the waiver rule established...more
Other Transaction (OT) authority and related agreements (OTAs) continue to be all the rage. And why shouldn’t they be? OTAs—particularly those advertised by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) for cutting edge prototype and...more
The National Bar Association Commercial Law Section (NBA-CLS) and Wiley Government Contracts attorneys Kendra Perkins Norwood and Ben Phillips are partnering to host a virtual program that will explore the ways doing business...more