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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

Wiley Rein LLP

President Trump’s Cyber Mandate: Analysis of Executive Order on Strengthening U.S. Cybersecurity

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President Trump issued a cybersecurity Executive Order, “Sustaining Select Efforts to Strengthen the Nation’s Cybersecurity” (Trump EO), along with a corresponding Fact Sheet on June 6, 2025. The Trump EO clears some of the...more

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The Revolutionary FAR Overhaul: What Government Contractors Need to Know

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On May 6, 2025, the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council (FAR Council) published draft revisions to the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) as part of a sweeping, phased update known as the Revolutionary FAR Overhaul...more

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2024 EEO-1 Reporting Update

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The 2024 EEO-1 Component 1 data collection appears to be moving forward, according to documents recently submitted for approval by the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB). According to the proposed 2024 EEO-1...more

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Federal Contractors Take Note: What Trump’s Procurement Reforms Mean for You

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On April 15, President Trump issued two new executive orders that will have a direct impact on federal contractors: - Restoring Common Sense To Federal Procurement directs federal agencies to eliminate from the FAR any...more

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What President Trump’s Executive Orders Could Mean for the Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program

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Since taking office, President Donald Trump has enacted two Executive Orders aimed at eliminating diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) programs from all aspects of...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

Trump rescinds Executive Order 11246

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President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Executive Order 11246 in 1965. Since then, organizations doing business with the federal government had to affirmatively recruit women and minorities for employment and ensure employment...more

Hogan Lovells

OMB overhauls regulations for federal grants and cooperative agreements

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The U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has released its long-awaited “Guidance for Federal Financial Assistance” to revise the regulations previously known as the OMB Uniform Guidance. With Federal grant funding...more

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DOJ Signals Tough Stance on Crimes Involving Misuse of Artificial Intelligence

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WHAT: Deputy Attorney General (DAG) Lisa O. Monaco delivered remarks at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom on “the Promise and Perils of AI.” Her remarks focused on the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) use of...more

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The FAR Council’s Proposed Cybersecurity Overhaul: Lots Of Questions, But Only Some Answers

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In what can best be described as a tsunami of cybersecurity regulation, the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Council—consisting of the Department of Defense (DoD), General Services Administration (GSA), and National...more

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Two New Cybersecurity Proposed Rules Mean Big Changes for Federal Contractors

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On October 3, 2023, the FAR Council released two long-awaited proposed rules for federal contractor cybersecurity stemming from the Biden Administration’s Cybersecurity Executive Order from May 2021 (Executive Order 14028)....more

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Executive Order 14028 Update: OMB Clarifies Cybersecurity Guidance for Federal Contractors; Delays Secure Software Attestation...

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On June 9, 2023, the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued Memorandum M-23-16, which delays implementation of a key secure software attestation requirement. The delay was necessary because the Cybersecurity...more

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New FAR Clause Implements TikTok Ban for Federal Contractors

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The federal government's most recent TikTok ban is both simple and complex. The prohibition bans federal contractors from using or even installing the TikTok app on covered information technology (IT) devices....more

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An Update to "Made in USA" for Federally Procured Products and FTC's "Made in USA"

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Recent trends indicate that consumers and the U.S. government are paying more attention to where products are sourced from. The Biden administration, for example, has made efforts to raise federal procurement standards for...more

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Ongoing Uncertainty Surrounds COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates for Government Contractors

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The patchwork collection of state and federal requirements applicable to COVID-19 vaccination continues to remain in flux. Beginning December 2021, there was a nationwide stay in the implementation of Executive Order 14042's...more

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SBA Annual Scorecard Shows Federal Government Continues to Prioritize Small Business Contracting

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The U.S. Small Business Administration (“SBA”) recently released its annual Procurement Scorecard, demonstrating the federal government’s continued prioritization of small business contracting and subcontracting. In 2021, the...more

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Federal Contractor Vaccine Mandate Enforcement Halted in 3 States/Deadline Delayed Nationwide

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Shifting standards and deadlines place additional burdens on contractors seeking to remain in compliance. What to Know - On November 30, 2021, a federal judge granted an injunction barring the government from enforcing the...more

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Mandatory Breach Notification Requirements For Government Contractors Are Almost Here

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President Biden’s newly released Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity represents a comprehensive approach to tackling cybersecurity threats in the U.S. and will likely result in new FAR and DFARS contract...more

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President Biden Announces Sweeping New Cybersecurity Reforms

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The President’s new Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity includes wide-ranging measures intended to strengthen security standards for the federal government and federal government contractors in response to...more

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Cybersecurity Executive Order Will Impact Government Contractors

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President Biden’s new Executive Order to improve cybersecurity involves a particular focus on federal government and contractor systems. President Biden’s Executive Order directs sweeping changes to cybersecurity...more

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Biden Revokes Executive Order 13950

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A quick move, but not a surprising one. President Biden issued more than a dozen executive orders during his first day in office. One of them revokes President Trump’s Executive Order on Combating Race and Sex...more

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EEOC Announces New EEO-1 Pay Data Reporting Deadline

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September 30, 2019, marks the newly announced deadline for employers who submit annual EEO-1 reports to report employee 2018 pay data to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The EEOC revealed the new deadline...more

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What Can Employers Expect from the Trump Administration in the Upcoming Year?

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It has been a little less than a month since President Donald Trump took office, and employers are anxious to see what changes the new administration will make that will affect both businesses and employees. President Trump...more

Cooley LLP

Alert: New Privacy Training Requirements for Companies with Federal Government Contracts

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Effective January 19, 2017, companies awarded federal government contracts will be required to ensure that their employees receive annual privacy training if those employees (1) handle personally identifiable information...more

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U.S. Government Open Source Software: OMB’s Memorandum on Federal Source Code Policy Exposes IP Ownership Risk

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On August 8, 2016, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”) promulgated an Open Source Software (“OSS”) policy via the Memorandum for the Heads of Departments and Agencies, M-16-21 (“Memorandum” or “M-16-21”). The...more

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