On December 23, 2022, President Biden signed the James N. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 (NDAA) into law. The statute prohibits federal agencies from purchasing covered semiconductor products...more
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On Wednesday, May 12, 2021, President Biden issued EO 14,028, “Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity.” The EO sets out an ambitious schedule of reviews and rulemakings that portend significant changes in the...more
On August 6, President Trump issued an Executive Order (EO) titled “Ensuring Essential Medicines, Medical Countermeasures and Critical Inputs Are Made in the United States.” The far-reaching EO seeks to ensure the domestic...more
8/13/2020
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- Akin Gump is hosting a Webinar tomorrow, August 6, 2020, at 12:00 p.m. (EST) to discuss Section 889, the implementing regulations, and the grant and loan restrictions also effective August 13, 2020.
- On July 14, 2020,...more
8/5/2020
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The Department of Defense’s (DOD) Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program provides a metric for independent third parties to use in assessing and certifying the...more
6/4/2020
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• On January 31, 2019, President Trump signed an executive order that directs federal departments and agencies to take steps to encourage recipients of federal financial assistance for a broad range of infrastructure projects...more
On January 29, 2015, the Department of Defense (DOD), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the General Services Administration (GSA) published the final anti-human trafficking rule amending the current...more
2/2/2015
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