AI Today in 5: August 7, 2025. The US v. China Episode
Compliance into the Weeds: A Deep Dive into Cadence Design Systems’ Export Control Violations
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending, August 2, 2025
Daily Compliance News: August 1, 2025, The All AI Edition
Daily Compliance News: July 25, 2025, The New Sheriff in Town Edition
All Things Investigations – Navigating Secondary Tariffs with Mike Huneke and Brent Carlson
FCPA Compliance Report: The Impact of Secondary Tariffs on Global Trade with Mike Huneke and Brent Carlson
Daily Compliance News: July 21, 2025, The More Reasons Not to Go to China Edition
Regulatory Ramblings: Episode 73 - Geopolitical Risk: Thai Tensions / Sanctions, Tariffs & FCPA Enforcement in Asia
Daily Compliance News: June 23, 2025, The Is Walmart Cool Edition
Regulatory Ramblings: Episode 71 – Crypto Fault Lines: Stablecoins, Meme Coins & the Fight for Clarity PLUS: Sanctions, Shell Companies & Fragmented Global Trade
Episode 372 -- DOJ Applies False Claims Act to Tariff and Trade Violations
Hot Topics in International Trade - Tariff Mitigation Strategies
Daily Compliance News: May 30, 2025, The Leissner Sentenced Edition
Regulatory Ramblings: Episode 70 – Lessons for Compliance from a Law Enforcement Career + Regional Geopolitical Risks in 2025 with Mark Nuttall and Steve Vickers
Daily Compliance News: May 21, 2025, The I Want You Back Edition
Hot Topics in International Trade Terrified by Tariffs Braumiller Law
2 Gurus Talk Compliance: Episode 52 – The Big Jet Plane Edition
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending May 10, 2025
Daily Compliance News: May 6, 2025 the Made in China Edition
In the current economic climate, the obvious focus of many companies is on the administration’s imposition of tariffs. However, government contractors, especially those contracting with the U.S. Department of Defense (“DoD”),...more
WHAT: On November 12, 2024, the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council (FAR Council) issued an interim rule amending the FAR to implement the statutory prohibition on procurement and operation of unmanned aircraft systems...more
The Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council (FAR Council), the body charged with drafting the regulations affecting government contracts, recently released an advanced notice of proposed rulemaking outlining how it will...more
WHAT: The Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council (FAR Council) issued an advanced notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPR) to implement parts of Section 5949 of the James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for...more
Proposed federal legislation known as the BIOSECURE Act is being considered in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate....more
On December 14, 2023, the House of Representatives passed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 (NDAA), following the Senate’s passage a few days earlier. The President is expected to sign the NDAA into...more
The Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council (FARC) issued a new final interim rule requiring contractors to review their supply chain to ensure no companies, products or services they are providing the federal government or...more
You may have learned of a new FAR provision banning the use of TikTok by contractors and employees. Lawmakers and regulators are concerned that TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance, may put sensitive user data into the...more
In recent years, the government contracts space has seen an increased scrutiny of procurements from certain countries, especially the People's Republic of China. A prominent example is Section 889 of the National Defense...more
Chinese semiconductors are ubiquitous within the United States and its private- and public-sector supply chains. To contend with the attendant national security and economic risks (whether real or perceived), Congress...more
Amid the 4,000 pages of provisions in the recently enacted Fiscal Year 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) are prohibitions and associated requirements relating to the federal procurement of certain Chinese...more
President Joe Biden signed into law the James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 (2023 NDAA or Defense Bill) on Dec. 23, 2022. The Defense Bill, which passed the U.S. House of Representatives on...more
WHAT: Congress is advancing the final version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2023 (FY 2023). With provisions similar to Section 889 of the FY 2019 NDAA, Section 5949 of the FY 2023 NDAA...more
The FCC seeks further comment on the revocation of existing equipment authorizations issued to manufacturers on FCC Covered List. Elimination of expedited approval procedures reduces possible evasion of FCC’s rules....more
The Department of Defense issued an interim rule amending the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement to require bidders on defense contracts to disclose when work will be performed in the People’s Republic of...more
On March 22, 2021, the Department of Commerce (“Commerce”) interim final rule to implement provisions of Executive Order 13873 on Securing the Information and Communications Technology and Services (ICTS) Supply Chain became...more
Have you a received Section 889 letter yet? If not, you may soon. The letters ask whether you provide or use “covered telecommunications equipment or services.” They are part of the implementation of Section 889 of the John...more
About two months have passed since the August 13, 2020, effective date of Part B of Section 889 of the FY 2019 National Defense Authorization Act. Part B, sometimes referred to as the Chinese telecommunications equipment ban,...more
To “combat the national security and intellectual property threats that face the United States,” section 889(a)(1)(B) of the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2019 (Pub. L. 115-232) prohibits executive...more
Government contractors have been closely watching developments in the implementation of Section 889 of the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2019, which bans government contractors’ use and provision of...more
The new regulations prohibit government agencies from entering into, extending, or renewing a contract with contractors if they use any equipment, system, or service that uses certain Chinese telecommunications equipment or...more
Federal contractors, including universities, will soon need to certify that they do not "use" telecommunications equipment or services produced or provided by certain Chinese companies (including ZTE, Hikvision, and Huawei)...more
Like the sailors of old, the government contracting community ventures forth knowing full well that danger lies ahead – although fortunately not in the form of a kraken, leviathan, or other mythical sea monster. Rather,...more
Beginning on August 13, U.S. federal government agencies will be prohibited from issuing new contracts or extending or renewing existing contracts to entities that use certain telecommunications and video surveillance...more
On July 14, 2020 the Department of Defense (“DoD”), General Services Administration (“GSA”), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (“NASA”) published an Interim Rule amending the Federal Acquisition Regulation...more