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An executive order (EO) issued August 7, 2025, Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking, announced significant changes in the way federal grants are awarded and administered. The Trump administration’s bases for the...more
On Aug. 7, 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order 14332, titled “Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking.” The executive order marks a new direction for federal grantmaking policy and oversight. In recent months, the...more
On August 7, 2025, the White House issued an executive order (EO) titled “Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking.” The EO calls for significant changes to the process of making and administering grants, cooperative...more
On August 15, the White House Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP) announced agencies may “immediately begin eliminating one-third of requirements from their future contracts...more
In an effort to ameliorate perceived problems with the manner in which the federal government issues federal grant funding and the nature of the grants that it funds, President Trump recently announced a sweeping new grant...more
The Trump Administration on Aug. 7, 2025, issued a sweeping executive order titled "Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking" (the Order or EO), which is aimed at overhauling the federal grantmaking process. Framed as a...more
Companies in virtually every critical infrastructure sector have to navigate the maze of duplicative, inconsistent, and fragmented cybersecurity regulations imposed by federal and state governments. For example, as we have...more
Directs federal agencies to overhaul their grant processes by requiring senior appointees to rigorously review discretionary grants and funding announcements for alignment with national interests and agency priorities. It...more
On July 23, the White House released its strategic action plan on AI, “Winning the Race: America’s AI Action Plan” (the AI Action Plan), which is designed to secure U.S. global leadership in AI with a strategic focus on...more
WHAT: The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) recently submitted to Congress 16 proposed changes to procurement laws in support of the “Revolutionary FAR Overhaul” effort, which Wiley has been chronicling here. These...more
If you have sold products or services to the federal government, chances are you may have experienced some challenges navigating the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR). In April 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order...more
During his last few days in office, on January 16, 2025, President Biden issued Executive Order 14144, "Strengthening and Promoting Innovation in the Nation's Cybersecurity" (EO 14144). Building heavily on the May 2021...more
President Trump issued a cybersecurity Executive Order, “Sustaining Select Efforts to Strengthen the Nation’s Cybersecurity” (Trump EO), along with a corresponding Fact Sheet on June 6, 2025. The Trump EO clears some of the...more
On April 15, 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order 14275 and directed wide-sweeping revisions to the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) to make the federal procurement process more efficient. As discussed in our...more
On April 16, 2025, the Trump Administration issued an Executive Order titled “Ensuring Commercial, Cost-Effective Solutions in Federal Contracts,” which establishes the Administration’s policy of procuring “commercially ...more
Change and uncertainty are among the words that come to mind when describing the government contracting industry in the early days of President Donald Trump’s second administration. Since taking office for the second time on...more
In what is sure to be an on-going series, we have the latest update regarding the FAR 2.0 rollout. Releasing the First Rollout- On May 2, 2025, the FAR Council released substantive rewrites of FAR Parts 1 (Federal...more
The United States General Services Administration (“GSA”) has launched a “Revolutionary FAR Overhaul” webpage, at https://www.acquisition.gov/far-overhaul (the “FAR Overhaul”), to provide guidance as federal agencies...more
Last week, the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released its fiscal year (FY) 2026 discretionary funding request to Congress on its President’s Budget webpage. The administration released a “skinny” FY 2026...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
Though there is continuing debate on the underlying cause(s), data clearly supports that natural disasters are occurring with increasing frequency and at a greater cost to the American public (whether personally or through...more
As reported in our April 25, 2025, blog item, the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology (NSCEB) announced on April 8, 2025, the availability of its final report and action plan, “urging Congressional action...more
In a separate post, we discuss how President Trump’s Executive Order (EO) 14240 (Mar. 20, 2025) will affect federal purchasing of information technology. EO 14240 may also change how the federal government buys billions of...more
On April 3, 2025, the Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”) issued two Memoranda (Memos) regarding the use and procurement of artificial intelligence (AI) by executive federal agencies....more