Podcast - Discussing a DOJ Lawsuit Under the Civil-Fraud Initiative
Defense Dynamics: Navigating the Post-Election Landscape for the National Security Sector
DE Talk | If It’s Not in Writing, It Never Happened: Applicant Tracking & Recordkeeping Strategies to Ensure OFCCP Compliance
Podcast - Cybersecurity Roundup: Analyzing New and Proposed Rules for Contractors
Understanding FOCI Mitigation
Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast - Episode 28: Construction Compliance with Joan Moore and Mim Munzel of The Arbor Consulting Group
False Claims Act Insights - If Everything Matters, Nothing Does: Parsing Materiality in FCA Disputes
Build America Buy America What is it? How to qualify.
Podcast - Navigating M&A Due Diligence: Safeguarding Security Clearances
Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast - Episode 26: Compensation Compliance with Joan Moore and Mim Munzel of The Arbor Consulting Group
DE Under 3: Court Held That Workday Was an “Agent” to Employers Licensing its AI Applicant Screening Tools
An In-Depth Overview of the DCSA
Sustainable Procurement: A Closer Look at the New Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR)
DE Under 3: Retirement of “Chevron Doctrine” Exposed Vulnerability of OFCCP’s Overreaching Interpretations of Some of its Rules
Legal Alert | Reign It In: Federal Court Enjoins DOL's Expansion of Davis-Bacon Coverage
Common Scenarios Triggering False Claims Act Violations, Part 3: Claims and Investigations
DE Under 3: OFCCP Must Shut Down its Administrative Court Prosecutions as a Result of SCOTUS’ SEC Jury Trial Case Decision
Common Scenarios Triggering False Claims Act Violations, Part 1: Gov. Contracts and Cybersecurity
DE Under 3: OFCCP’s New Revisions & Additions to its Construction Contractor Compliance Audit Tools
Clocking in with PilieroMazza: Second Chance Initiatives: Hiring Workers with Criminal Histories
On October 10, 2024, the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) issued a final rule amending the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) to establish a pilot program allowing for sole source follow-on contract...more
WHAT: On October 15, 2024, the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) will publish the final CMMC 2.0 Program rule. DOD’s final rule outlines the mechanisms that DOD will use to prescribe cybersecurity standards for safeguarding...more
Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) is coming — and now appears to be coming faster than many defense contractors believed. In the latest signal of CMMC’s forward momentum, the Department of Defense (DoD) issued...more
Sequels are rarely better than the films that precede them, and yet, sometimes a story is just too compelling to be limited to just one film. At the tail end of a summer full of Hollywood sequels, the Department of Defense...more
As the presidential race rages on, so too does the race to fully implement the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) 2.0 program. The CMMC 2.0 program impacts Defense Industrial Base (DIB) contractors and...more
The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) issued the proposed Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) rules that will implement the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program. These rules, which...more
The United States Department of Defense (DoD) took another big step on the path to instituting its highly anticipated Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification 2.0 program (CMMC 2.0). Once finalized, CMMC 2.0 will establish...more
When hackers gain access to a subcontractor’s information systems and divert the prime contractor’s payment to themselves instead of to the subcontractor, does the prime contractor still have to pay the subcontractor?...more
On February 15, 2024, the Department of Defense (DOD) issued a final rule amending the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) to implement Executive Order (EO) 14005, Ensuring the Future Is Made in All of...more
The bond yield curve inverted in October 2022. When that occurred, it started a countdown to recession. At least it has every time since 1968. Specifically, for the last eight recessions since 1968, every single recession was...more
On December 26, 2023, the Department of Defense (“DoD”) belatedly gifted defense contractors and subcontractors a Proposed Rule on the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (“CMMC”) Program. DoD also released eight CMMC...more
The US Department of Defense (DoD) has issued a proposed rule to implement its long-awaited Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program (CMMC 2.0). This proposed rule — released on December 26, 2023, and published in...more
In this series of articles, we explore the different certification requirements of CMMC Level 1, 2 and 3, the impact on contractors and external service providers, and proposed next steps... On December 26, 2023, the US...more
The U.S. Department of Defense released a special holiday treat for government contractors and subcontractors last week in the form of long-promised proposed regulations for its Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification...more
The Department of Defense (DoD) delivered its proposed Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification Program rule (CMMC) the day after Christmas this year, including several related guidance documents (listed here). The proposed...more
Two years after announcing the second iteration of the U.S. Department of Defense's (DoD) Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program, the DoD released its proposed rule that, if adopted, will implement the...more
On October 25, 2023, the Department of Defense (DoD) published a Proposed Rule amending the Department of Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) and permanently authorizing the DoD Mentor-Protégé Program...more
WHAT: As we previously reported here, on October 3, 2023, the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council (FAR Council) proposed a pair of major cybersecurity rules intended to implement key parts of President Biden’s May 2021...more
Many government agencies accomplish their critical missions by using private transportation and logistics services. The General Services Administration (GSA) is often the key federal agency for managing private procurement of...more
Assessing Contractor Implementation of Cybersecurity Requirements (DFARS Case 2019-D041), Department of Defense (DOD), Proposed Rule - DOD is amending an interim rule to implement the Cybersecurity Maturity Model...more
The Department of Defense (DOD) issued a final rule amending the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) requiring Contracting Officers to use Supplier Performance Risk System (SPRS) assessments when...more
CONSTRUCTION - DOL: Biden-Harris Administration Launches Initiative to Promote Equal Opportunity, Expand Workforce for Federally Funded Jobs in Large Infrastructure Projects - U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced...more
LITIGATION & DISPUTE RESOLUTION - The FCA at the Supreme Court, Part 2 of 4: Addressing the Standard for Knowingly Submitting a False Claim - The False Claims Act (FCA) is seeing quite a bit of action at the Supreme...more
GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS - Veterans Affairs Imposes Increased Cybersecurity Rules on Government Contractors - The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) released a final rule, effective February 24, 2023, amending the...more
A government prime contractor with more than 50 employees and a single federal government contract worth at least $50,000 must comply with the federal affirmative action regulations, which includes establishing a written...more