The Rise of OTAs in Defense Contracting: Opportunities, Risks, and What Contractors Need to Know
Podcast - Navigating the Updated SF-328 Form
Podcast - A Comparative Guide to Obtaining an FCL: DCSA vs. the Intelligence Community
Diversifying Your Contract Pipeline by Maximizing Opportunities through the DOD’s Mentor Protégé Program
A Comprehensive Overview of FOCI Mitigation
Podcast - Defense Dynamics: Navigating the Post-Election Landscape for the National Security Sector, Part 2
Mitigating FOCI Under Section 847
Episode 345 -- Raytheon Pays $950 Million to Resolve Fraud, FCPA, ITAR and False Claims Act Violations
Everyone Come to Play: Exploring FOCI Mitigation Instruments
Defense Dynamics: Navigating the Post-Election Landscape for the National Security Sector
Podcast - Navigating M&A Due Diligence: Safeguarding Security Clearances
Podcast - Change Condition Packages: Tips for Cleared Contractors
Podcast - Corporate Documents in the Context of Clearances
Navigating Personnel Security Clearances (PCLs)
Cybersecurity Insights: Updates on CMMC Implementation and CUI Identification
What Is an FCL and How Do I Obtain One?
Protecting Our Nation’s Data: Cybersecurity Compliance for Government Contractors
Intellectual Property In Department of Defense Contracting
The When, Where, Why and How of CMMC with Fernando Machado
In Kako’o Spectrum Healthcare Solutions, LLC, B-421127.5, et al., May 28, 2025, Kako’o Spectrum Healthcare Solutions (KSHS) protested the U.S. Marine Corps’ award to Cognito Systems, arguing that Cognito’s proposal exceeded...more
On April 9, 2025, the Center for Indian Country Development published an interesting report on the impact of contract consolidation/bundling by the federal government on Native-owned government contractors. In Executive...more
On May 6, 2025, the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council (FAR Council) published draft revisions to the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) as part of a sweeping, phased update known as the Revolutionary FAR Overhaul...more
Three executive orders issued by President Donald Trump in mid-April combat what those orders describe as an unacceptably slow, expensive and bureaucratic process for federal government acquisition in the US, and direct...more
In Part 1 of PilieroMazza’s blog series we looked at how Other Transactions Authority (OTA) has emerged as a key acquisition tool for government contractors eager to work with the Department of Defense (DOD). In Part 2, we’ll...more
Reforms the Department of Defense’s acquisition processes by: (a) Utilization of existing authorities to expedite acquisitions throughout the Department of Defense, including a first preference for commercial solutions and a...more
On February 25, the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation held a confirmation hearing for Michael Kratsios, tapped by President Donald Trump to serve as the Director of the White House Office of...more
Generally speaking, the U.S. procurement system allows companies competing for U.S. government contracts broad rights to challenge contract awards, as well as the terms of solicitations. There are, however, restrictions...more
A flurry of federal prosecutorial activity in late 2024, as well as a statement from several institutional stakeholders in a key federal initiative to combat procurement fraud, provided a valuable reminder for government...more
The 2025 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) includes two significant changes to DoD bid protests that are generally not favorable to contractors. (Both changes appear in Section 885 of the NDAA and can be viewed at...more
As China's significant investments in its commercial space sector have raised concerns about technological competition, the Department of Defense is increasing its efforts to partner with emerging commercial space startups....more
Just before the holidays, incoming Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) Chairman Roger Wicker (R-MS) released a new report, “Restoring Freedom’s Forge,” along with a comprehensive new piece of legislation, the “Fostering...more
Last night, the House of Representatives passed the BIOSECURE Act (BIOSECURE or the Act) by a bipartisan vote of 306 to 81. The BIOSECURE Act prohibits federal agencies from procuring or obtaining any biotechnology...more
Parties contemplating transactions in the defense sector need to know about a new obligation to provide materials to the Department of Defense (DOD) that will substantially affect their obligations for transactions that are...more
Last week, the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party (Select Committee) issued a comprehensive new bipartisan report, including almost 150 policy...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
It has been one year since President Biden signed a far-reaching, industry-spanning Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy. The Executive Order outlines a “whole-of-government” approach to...more
The Department of Justice recently filed a complaint to prevent Booz Allen Hamilton’s $440 million acquisition of “agile and innovative” competitor EverWatch, Inc. Among the notable aspects of the complaint is its definition...more
What happened? Just weeks before the real State of the Union Address to Congress, the Department of Defense (DoD or Department) published a report on the “State of Competition within the Defense Industrial Base” (DIB Report)....more
In remarks delivered on January 18, 2022, and January 24, 2022, Jonathan Kanter, the Assistant Attorney General (AAG) for the US Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division, laid out the areas where he perceives...more
The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) filed suit yesterday to block Lockheed Martin Corporation’s proposed $4.4 billion acquisition of Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings Inc., announced back in December 2020. Aerojet, the last...more
For several years, policy-makers and commentators have expressed concern about the resilience of the United States’ pharmaceutical supply chain. Current U.S.-based manufacturing capabilities have been at the forefront of...more
On Friday, July 9, 2021, President Biden issued Executive Order (EO) 14036, “Promoting Competition in the American Economy” (see recent alert here). The EO includes 72 initiatives by more than a dozen federal agencies in an...more
In a new directive, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) revised acquisition policies across the DoD to emphasize flexibility, competition, affordability, and performance as among the high-level objectives of a broader push...more
A. Introduction and Key Take-Aways - 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