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Maynard Nexsen

Big Beautiful Bill Includes Funding for Offensive Cyber Operations – Insights and Implications

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The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (“OBBBA”) (Publ. Law 119-21), enacted in July 2025, is a sweeping piece of legislation that addresses many issues. Among them, it allocates $1 billion over four years to boost U.S. offensive...more

Goodwin

America’s AI Action Plan Emphasizes Governance and Risk Management to Promote the Secure and Safe Adoption of AI Tools

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On July 23, 2025, the Trump Administration released its AI Action Plan (“the Plan”), a long-anticipated roadmap for the federal government’s approach to AI governance that presents a number of implications for businesses...more

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AI Implications in Senate and House Committees’ Versions of FY 2026 NDAA, and the Pentagon Awards Four AI Contracts Up to $200...

On July 9, the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) voted 26-1 to advance the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 to the Senate floor. The Senate version of the NDAA includes a comprehensive...more

Woods Rogers

New Cybersecurity Executive Order Revises Specific Federal Policies While Retaining Core Security Principles

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On June 6, 2025, the Trump Administration issued a new Executive Order, Sustaining Select Efforts to Strengthen the Nation’s Cybersecurity and Amending Executive Order 13694 and Executive Order 14144 (the EO) that contains...more

A&O Shearman

Trump White House issues executive order on cybersecurity

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While the Order preserves significant portions of President Biden’s most recent cyber executive order—including provisions aimed at securing the software supply chain, federal government systems, and federal...more

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Is Change Around the Corner? One Proposal to Forge Sweeping Changes to Defense Contracting

At the end of 2024, Senator Roger Wicker (R-MS) published a plan (“Restoring Freedom’s Forge: American Innovation Unleashed”) and introduced a bill (the Fostering Reform and Government Efficiency in Defense Act or FoRGED...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

So Now There’s a TikTok Ban for Government Contractors

On June 2, 2023, the Civilian Agency Acquisition Council and the Defense Acquisition Regulations Council issued an interim rule to implement a new statutory requirement that, in short, bans the TikTok app from devices used in...more

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May 2017: The Top 10 Labor And Employment Law Stories

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It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While it always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, the last few months have seen an unprecedented number of changes. May 2017 was no different, with...more

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California Legislative Update: Which Bills Made the Final Cut?

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Although the California Legislature sent Governor Jerry Brown bills on bed bugs, powdered alcohol, and making denim the official state fabric, the laws enacted in 2016 affecting the state’s private-sector employers were...more

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