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Diversifying Your Contract Pipeline by Maximizing Opportunities through the DOD’s Mentor Protégé Program
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Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: Everything You Want to Know About the CFPB as Things Stand Today, and Lots More - Part 1
SBR Author’s Podcast: Transforming Corporate Careers - Leadership Lessons for the US Military Veteran Entrepreneur
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The Entrepreneur's Journey with Kass and Mike Lazerow
SBA’s Final Rule Is Here: Key Takeaways on Updates to HUBZone Program, Other Small Business Programs, and Various Small Business Matters
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Protect, Prepare, Prevail: Navigating a Complex Cybersecurity World
Preparing for Major Changes to DOT’s Disadvantaged Business Enterprise DBE Program
The Force is Strong with this One – Success and Paying it Forward with Co-Founder of ChannelAdvisor and Spiffy Scot Wingo
John Neiman on the Corporate Transparency Act
The recently passed National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA or Act) for Fiscal Year 2025 addresses recurring areas of focus relevant to defense contracting, including supply chain risks related to China, organizational...more
The Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025 (FY2025 NDAA), signed into law on December 23, 2024, has significant implications for defense acquisition and...more
Aerospace, defense, and security businesses are subject to a myriad of regulations and operational requirements that are constantly changing. These include things like SBA rules for credit for small businesses and...more
The Fiscal Year 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) includes numerous provisions relevant to government contractors in areas such as artificial intelligence (AI), cybersecurity, supply chain concerns related to...more
On December 15, 2021, Congress passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA or Act) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2022, which President Biden is expected to sign into law soon. As usual, the NDAA contains numerous provisions...more
Division of Banks Warns of Risks from Representments Causing Multiple NSF Fees - The Massachusetts Division of Banks has issued a supervisory alert letter to warn banks about certain legal risks and risks of regulatory...more
Congress is currently negotiating the final version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2021, which sets funding levels and outlines policy priorities for the U.S. Department of Defense...more
Comments to Proposed Rule on Consolidation of Mentor Protégé Programs and Other Government Contracting Amendments, February 7, 2020 - In its role as advocate to small businesses operating in the government contracting...more
Join the HUBZone Council as They Celebrate Their 20th Anniversary - On January 17, 2020, the HUBZone Contractors National Council will be hosting its first EVER HUBZone Industry Awards Gala in Baltimore, MD, at Morgan...more
CYBERSECURITY & DATA PRIVACY - Start Preparing Now for DoD's Upcoming Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) - For a while now, we have been writing about the increasing impact of cybersecurity on the...more
SMALL BUSINESS PROGRAMS & ADVISORY SERVICES - Small Business Administration – SBA issued a rule extending the 504 Loan Program Rural Initiative Pilot Program (504 Rural Pilot) through September 30, 2021. The 504 Rural...more
GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS LAW - This Project Is Behind Schedule - What Is a Contractor to Do? - Construction projects rarely, if ever, go precisely as planned. One of the most common issues government contractors face is...more
SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION - Small Business Size Regulations: Correction - SBA revised the entry for NAICS code 336999 under Subsector 336 with the addition of “All Other Transportation Equipment Manufacturing”...more
The topics in the Legal Advisor focus primarily on corporate and business matters, federal contracting, employment law, intellectual property and electronic commerce. We encourage our readers to communicate their views to us...more
GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS - Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement: Procurement of Commercial Items (DFARS case 2016-d006) - The Department of Defense (DOD) issued a final rule, which amended the Defense Federal...more
This is the seventh blog post in a series analyzing the current draft of the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) as signed into law on December 12, 2017. Stay tuned for more blog posts covering additional topics in...more
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