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How the GSA’s Acquisition Overhaul Could Affect Small Business Contractors

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC on 7/22/2025

The General Services Administration (GSA) has released a series of legislative proposals that have been transmitted to Congress as part of the revision and rewrite of the Federal Acquisition Regulations. The intent of the...more

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

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Government... on 4/25/2025

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

The BIOSECURE Act and Its Potential Implications

Goodwin on 3/6/2024

Proposed federal legislation known as the BIOSECURE Act is being considered in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate....more

Section 5949 - Congress's Latest Prohibition on Chinese Technology in Federal Procurement, and What It Means for Government...

Venable LLP on 1/16/2023

Chinese semiconductors are ubiquitous within the United States and its private- and public-sector supply chains. To contend with the attendant national security and economic risks (whether real or perceived), Congress...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

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