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From Private Company to Government Contractor Overnight: How the Defense Production Act Can Transform Your Business Without...

The Defense Production Act of 1950 (“DPA”) remains one of the most powerful yet underutilized tools in the federal government’s arsenal for mobilizing private industry during national emergencies. For in-house counsel,...more

What Government Contractors Need to Know About the “Revolutionary Federal Procurement Overhaul”

The Trump administration has launched a sweeping overhaul of federal procurement policy aimed at streamlining the Federal Acquisition Regulation (“FAR”), cutting compliance costs, and increasing competition. These changes are...more

The Ongoing Battle Between Judicial and Executive Power: The District Court of Maryland Enjoins President Trump’s DEI Orders on a...

On Friday, February 21, 2025, the United States District Court for the District of Maryland entered a preliminary injunction halting provisions of two of President Trump’s executive orders that sought to effectively eliminate...more

Federal Government Contractors May No Longer Have 90 Days to Comply With Trump Administration’s DEI Executive Order

GSA FAR Class Deviations - Executive Order 14173, “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity,” issued on January 21, 2025, caused immediate confusion for federal government contractors since their...more

Cracking the Code: Navigating Regulations Governing Emerging Technologies in Government Contracts

As the federal government seeks to procure more artificial intelligence (“AI”), machine learning (“ML”), synthetic content and other emerging technologies in the coming years, government contractors must be prepared to comply...more

Georgia Judge Enjoins Federal Contractor Vaccine Mandate in Every State in U.S.

On December 7, 2021, R. Stan Baker, judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia, enjoined enforcement of Executive Order 14042 (“EO 14042”) “in all covered contracts in any state or...more

The Federal Contractor Vaccine Mandate Is “On Hold,” at Least in Kentucky, Ohio, and Tennessee

On November 30, 2021, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky in the lawsuit, Commonwealth of Kentucky et al. v. Joseph R. Biden et al., Civil Action No. 3:21-cv-00055-GFVT, granted a preliminary...more

Hourly Minimum Wage for Federal Contractors Increases to $15.00 Starting January 30, 2022

On April 27, 2021, President Biden issued an Executive Order requiring federal contractors and subcontractors to pay a minimum wage of no less than $15.00 per hour to all workers who are working on federal construction and/or...more

GSA’s SAM.gov Site To Be Modernized on May 24, 2021

Government contractors currently access the U.S. General Services Administration’s System for Award Management (referred to in the industry as “SAM”) for only a few fundamental tasks: Register to do business with the U.S....more

Top 10 Things to Know About the Executive Order on Combatting Race and Sex Stereotyping

On September 22, 2020, President Trump issued Executive Order 13950, “Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping” (“Order”). The Order sets forth the policy of the United States “not to promote race or sex stereotyping or...more

OMB Guidance to Federal Contractors for Performance Issues Associated with COVID-19

On March 20, 2020, the Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”) issued guidance to federal government contractors (“contractors”) for dealing with a myriad of performance issues associated with COVID-19 (“OMB’s Guidance”)....more

Government Contractors Are Still Waiting for an Executive Order Mandating Telework

At the present time, there is no universal guidance from the White House on whether government contractors are permitted to telework. There are 430 departments, agencies and sub-agencies in the U.S. Federal Government....more

How Government Contractors Should Prepare for the Next Government Shutdown - A Five Point Plan

Congress has yet to pass a long-term spending bill for fiscal year 2018, relying instead on a series of short-term continuing resolutions to keep the Government open. Even after the most recent Government Shutdown which began...more

What Government Contractors Need to Know About the 2018 Government Shutdown

At midnight on January 20, 2018, the Government shut down for the 19th time since Congress introduced the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act, which established the federal budget process in 1976. Six of the last...more

Compliance with Executive Order 13706 – Paid Sick Leave for Federal Contractors

Executive Order (“EO”) 13076, signed by President Barack Obama on September 7, 2015, established paid sick leave for federal contractors. Specifically, this EO requires certain parties that contract with the Federal...more

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