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The National Defense Authorization Act is a United States federal statute enacted each year to specify the budget and expenditures of the Department of Defense. The NDAA identifies which agencies are responsible for national defense, provides funding for those agencies and includes instructions on proper use of the funds. less -

Holland & Knight Defense Situation Report: April 2025

Holland & Knight LLP on 5/12/2025

Welcome to Holland & Knight's defense news update. We are pleased to bring you the latest in defense policy, regulatory updates and other significant developments....more

Defense Contractors’ Restrictions When Contracting with Chinese Companies

Blank Rome LLP on 4/25/2025

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

DOD Proposed Rule Will Expand FOCI Requirements to Non-Classified Defense Contracts

Holland & Knight LLP on 4/24/2025

U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) contractors with foreign ownership, control, or influence (FOCI) soon will face new requirements. Though cleared DOD contractors have long been bound by FOCI obligations, the new rule will...more

Recent Changes for Contractors to Consider - SBA Small Business Credit Rules, CMMC Updates, CTA Reporting, FLSA Overtime...

Womble Bond Dickinson on 1/29/2024

Aerospace, defense, and security businesses are subject to a myriad of regulations and operational requirements that are constantly changing. These include things like SBA rules for credit for small businesses and...more

Silicon Valley Meets Washington, D.C.: DOD's CSO Authority Is Here to Stay

Holland & Knight LLP on 8/18/2023

The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) has finalized a proposed rule authorizing the acquisition of commercial products and services using general solicitation competitive procedures known as a "commercial solutions opening"...more

Time is Running Out to Seek Inflation Relief For DoD Contracts under Section 822 of the FY2023 NDAA

Womble Bond Dickinson on 7/11/2023

The FY2023 James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act (FY2023 NDAA) included several important provisions for government contractors. We described several of those important FY2023 NDAA provisions in a presentation...more

The recently enacted 2023 National Defense Authorization Act adopts federal procurement restrictions for certain covered Chinese...

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP on 1/3/2023

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

DOD Issues Proposed Rule on Enhanced Post-Award Debriefing Rights: 5 Things You Should Know

PilieroMazza PLLC on 6/4/2021

As we previously reported, Section 818 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 (2018 NDAA) required the Department of Defense (DOD) to issue new regulations to establish more detailed and comprehensive...more

Aerospace and Defense Insights | Long-awaited Section 889 Part B interim rule issued

Hogan Lovells on 7/20/2020

After much anticipation, on 14 July 2020, the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Council issued an interim rule in the Federal Register that will implement Section 889(a)(1)(B) (Part B) of the fiscal year 2019 National...more

DoD’s Squeeze of Chinese Telecom Equipment Continues

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 1/31/2020

At the end of 2019, the Department of Defense (“DoD”) took another step to limit the potential cyber risks posed by telecommunications equipment manufactured by Chinese companies (and potentially Russian ones too). We...more

DoD Implements Statutory Restrictions on LPTA Evaluations

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC on 10/10/2019

As we noted in a blog post in December 2016, “LPTA Out, Fixed Price Contracts In,” the Department of Defense (DoD) has been moving to restrict the Lowest Price Technically Acceptable (LPTA) evaluation methodology, which...more

Limits on Use of Lowest-Price, Technically Acceptable Procurements at DoD

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on 10/1/2019

Department of Defense issues a final rule limiting the ability of defense agencies to use lowest-price, technically acceptable procurement procedures. The new rule takes effect on October 1, 2019 and permits defense...more

2019 NDAA Analysis: A Harder Look at Major Defense Acquisitions

Holland & Knight LLP on 3/26/2019

This is the sixth blog post in a series analyzing the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) as signed into law on Aug. 13, 2018. Stay tuned for more blog posts covering additional topics in the near future from...more

The 2019 NDAA Streamlines, Reorganizes, and Redefines

PilieroMazza PLLC on 8/31/2018

Title VIII—Acquisition Policy, Acquisition Management, and Related Matters of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 (“2019 NDAA”) includes a number of changes to the Department of Defense (“DoD”)...more

Is It Time for Commercial Companies to Give DOD a Second Look?

Perkins Coie on 6/25/2018

In the last decade or so, the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) has been, in the words of the Section 809 Panel, an “unattractive customer to large and small firms with innovative, state-of-the-art solutions.” Among other...more

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