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A Defense Contractor's Guide to CMMC, DFARS, and FAR Requirements

Holland & Hart LLP on 6/4/2025

Cyber-attacks against America’s defense industrial base are becoming more sophisticated and more frequent. To reduce the risk of sensitive national security information landing in the hands of bad actors, the Department of...more

DoD Rings in 2024 With Proposed Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification Rule

McDermott Will & Schulte on 12/29/2023

On December 26, 2023, the US Department of Defense (DoD) published its long-awaited proposed rule codifying the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Program. The proposed CMMC rule will apply to all DoD...more

“FAR” Reaching Consequences: Proposed FAR Cybersecurity Requirements Will Add New Obligations for Contractors

Paul Hastings LLP on 10/25/2023

Earlier this month the Federal Acquisition Regulation (“FAR”) Council released two draft rules which would impose new cybersecurity requirements for federal contractors. The proposed rules, Cyber Threat and Incident Reporting...more

Cyber Compliance On Trial: Court Denies Summary Judgment In Aerojet FCA Case

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Government... on 2/9/2022

Aerojet Rocketdyne received another blow last week in its long running battle to end a 2015 False Claims Act suit alleging it lied about its compliance with cybersecurity requirements in order to win several federal...more

CMMC 2.0 Simplifies Requirements But Raises Risks for Government Contractors

Holland & Knight LLP on 12/8/2021

With the announcement of a revamped Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (known as CMMC 2.0),1 for the third time in five years, the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) announced new, comprehensive cybersecurity standards...more

Alert: DoD to Require Contractors to be Cyber-Certified by Fall 2020

Cooley LLP on 3/2/2020

On January 31, 2020, the Department of Defense released Version 1.0 of its Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification for defense contractors. The model is intended to incorporate and build upon existing cybersecurity...more

DoD Has Released Model Version 1.0 of the Cyber Maturity Model Certification Framework

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on 2/4/2020

- DoD has released the final version of the CMMC framework. - DoD anticipates that CMMC requirements will appear in a limited number of solicitations starting in October 2020 and that they will appear in all DoD...more

Tackling Increased Cybersecurity Requirements in the Defense Industrial Base

McDermott Will & Schulte on 2/4/2020

On January 30, the US Department of Defense (DoD) released version 1.0 of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) framework, which will require DoD contractors and subcontractors to obtain third-party...more

Halting Employee's Right to Report Cybersecurity Noncompliance Can Land Government Contractors in Hot Water

PilieroMazza PLLC on 5/28/2019

Last week signaled a potential rude awakening for government contractors subject to cybersecurity requirements. A California U.S. district court ruled that allegations against Aerojet Rocketdyne could progress following a...more

“Internet of Things” Guidance to be Added to Cybersecurity Requirements for Agencies and Federal Contractors

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 4/30/2019

In 2019, cybersecurity has become top-of-mind for most federal government contractors and agencies that share sensitive information. In addition to updated Department of Defense guidance and procedures for evaluating...more

Government Response to Increasing Cyber Threats

McGuireWoods LLP on 9/12/2017

Government agencies collect and hold massive amounts of personally identifiable information (PII), creating valuable targets for cybercrime. Recently proposed legislation would impose baseline standards for cyber hygiene on...more

The OMB’s New Cybersecurity Guidance for Federal Contractors

Snell & Wilmer on 9/11/2015

Is Controlled Unclassified Information Out of Control? The OMB apparently thinks so. On August 11, 2015, the Obama administration, through the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), which is the largest office within the...more

DoD New Cyber Security Reporting Rules for Contractors

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 9/1/2015

In a move that highlights the changing winds of federal cybersecurity policy, the Department of Defense (“DoD”) has issued an interim Rule (“Rule”) that imposes new security and reporting requirements on federal contractors,...more

DoD's New Cybersecurity and Cloud Standards and Reporting Requirements

Holland & Knight LLP on 8/31/2015

The Department of Defense (DoD) released interim rules implementing provisions of the 2013 and 2015 National Defense Authorization Acts. The rules, released on Aug. 26, 2015, are effective immediately and establish the...more

OMB Issues Guidance on Government Contractors’ Cybersecurity Systems

Holland & Knight LLP on 8/14/2015

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released a draft guidance document on Aug. 11, 2015, titled “Improving Cybersecurity Protection in Federal Acquisitions” (the “OMB Guidance”). The OMB Guidance instructs agencies on...more

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