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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

Braumiller Law Group, PLLC

Hot Topics in International Trade - August 2025 - The U.S. Effort to Keep AI Out of China’s Hands

It comes as no surprise China has been a major focus point of the second Trump administration. One of the key reasons for this focus is the increasing national security concerns over technology. In particular, the smuggling...more

Mintz - Antitrust Viewpoints

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

Mintz - Antitrust Viewpoints

President Trump Signs Law with Over $1 Billion of AI Funding, and US Rescinds Chip Export Restrictions to China - AI: The...

On July 4, 2025, President Trump signed into law the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which allocates over $1 billion toward advancing the federal government’s use of AI. The funding package reinforces the administration’s...more

Stoel Rives LLP

The One Big Beautiful Bill Modifies Renewable Energy Tax Credits

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After weeks of negotiations and multiple rounds of changes and political negotiation, Congress today passed The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the “Act”).  The Act makes a number of significant changes to the tax credits...more

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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

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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

Mintz - Antitrust Viewpoints

Trump Signs EO on AI Cybersecurity and Senate Floats New Approach to State AI Moratorium - AI: The Washington Report

On June 6, President Trump issued an Executive Order on cybersecurity to manage AI software vulnerabilities and compromises in the federal government. The EO also directs various agencies to share their datasets for cyber...more

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Legislation introduced in Senate Foreign Relations Committee to support U.S. competitiveness against Russia and China for global...

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Earlier this week, U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Chris Coons (D-Del.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), chairman and ranking member of the Senate Energy...more

Hogan Lovells

The Cyber Security and Resilience Bill

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On 1 April 2025, the UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology issued a policy statement setting out its key proposals for the new Cyber Security and Resilience Bill. The Bill is intended to respond to an...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

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

The Trump Administration Seeks to Increase U.S. Shipbuilding and Naval Readiness

On March 4, President Donald Trump delivered his first joint address to Congress to discuss his achievements at the start of his second administration, his campaign promises and forward-looking policy goals. During the...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

Senate AI Working Group Releases Landmark Policy Roadmap

On May 15, the Bipartisan Senate Artificial Intelligence (AI) Working Group (“Working Group”) released a report titled “Driving U.S. Innovation in Artificial Intelligence” that lays out a detailed policy roadmap for...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

A Fracturing Data Environment: Executive Order Portends Major Changes to US Data Management

On February 28, 2024, President Biden issued Executive Order 14117 (the EO) on “Preventing Access to Americans’ Bulk Sensitive Personal Data and United States Government-Related Data by Countries of Concern” that would...more

DarrowEverett LLP

After Corporate Transparency Act Takes Hit in Ruling, What's Next?

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The Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”), a significant legislative effort aimed at curbing financial crimes by increasing corporate accountability, has been declared unconstitutional by the U.S. District Court for the Northern...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

President Biden’s AI EO: Key Takeaways for Cybersecurity & Data Privacy

On October 30, 2023, the Biden administration released a far-reaching executive order (EO) on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The EO issues directives related to the use...more

Mintz - Antitrust Viewpoints

Biden’s Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence — AI: The Washington Report

Welcome to this week's issue of AI: The Washington Report, a joint undertaking of Mintz and its government affairs affiliate, ML Strategies. The accelerating advances in artificial intelligence (“AI”) and the practical,...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Biden Administration Signs Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence

On October 30, President Biden signed a sprawling executive order governing the development, testing, and use of artificial intelligence (AI).  Formally titled, "Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

FY24 NDAA: What to Watch Going into Conference

Welcome back to Washington where funding the government prior to the beginning of the fiscal year may take top billing, but behind the scenes the Armed Services Committees will begin work in earnest to conference the Fiscal...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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Foreign direct investment reviews 2023: A global perspective

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Now in its seventh year of annual publication, White & Case's Foreign Direct Investment Reviews provides a comprehensive look into rapidly evolving foreign direct investment (FDI) laws and regulations in approximately 40...more

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Quantum Computing: Examining the Quantum Computing Cybersecurity Preparedness Act

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In the waning days of 2022 and the 117th Congress, President Biden signed H.R.7535, the Quantum Computing Cybersecurity Preparedness Act, into law. The law recognizes the future threat that quantum decryption poses to federal...more

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CISA Seeks Input on New Cybersecurity Reporting Requirements

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President Biden signed into law the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act of 2022 (CIRCIA) on March 15, 2022. The background and contours of CIRCIA are discussed in a previous update. CIRCIA authorizes and...more

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Cybersecurity Protocols Emerge for the Transportation Industry

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Cybersecurity has emerged as a tangible risk for transportation service providers over the course of the last year. Ransomware attacks on domestic industry and critical infrastructure, and tensions associated with the Russian...more

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United States Adopts Wide-Ranging China Restrictions

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End-of-Year Sanctions Target Chinese Supply Chains and AI, Quantum Computing, and Biotechnology - Several US executive branch agencies and the US Congress have adopted wide-ranging end-of-year sanctions, export control and...more

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