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A New Executive Order Signals Administration’s Cybersecurity Priorities

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Key Takeaways - President Trump’s new cybersecurity Executive Order largely retains the structure and goals of EO 14144 but rolls back several deadlines and prescriptive directives to give agencies more flexibility....more

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Strengthening the American Drone Industrial Base

Buried toward the bottom of President Trump’s Executive Order, titled “Unleashing American Drone Dominance” (the “Order”), is a mandate to identify military programs made more “efficient or lethal if replaced” by unmanned...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Trump’s New Cybersecurity Executive Order: What Contractors Need to Know

On June 6, 2025, the Trump Administration released a new Executive Order (“EO”) on cybersecurity, Sustaining Select Efforts to Strengthen the Nation’s Cybersecurity and Amending Executive Order 13694 and Executive Order...more

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Trio of Executive Orders Renews Focus on Efficiency and Commercial Solutions in Federal Procurement

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Three executive orders issued by President Donald Trump in mid-April combat what those orders describe as an unacceptably slow, expensive and bureaucratic process for federal government acquisition in the US, and direct...more

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Managing the Financial Impact of Tariffs on Your Government Contract

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PilieroMazza recently published a client alert regarding executive orders imposing additional tariffs on goods from Canada, Mexico, and China. Since then, the Trump administration has imposed a series of worldwide and...more

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Week 13 in Review: Government Contracting, Tariffs, the Federal Hiring Freeze, and the Importation of Minerals

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Last week, President Trump issued several executive orders in furtherance of his policy aims, including orders relating to increasing efficiency in the government contracting process, assessing the impact of importation of...more

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Crossing Administrations: The Focus on Federal Cybersecurity Continues

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Federal contractors, including defense contractors, should prepare for the emergence of new requirements in the coming months that are designed to strengthen software supply chain security, impose more stringent cybersecurity...more

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Deja Vu All Over Again: Trump’s Tariffs and their Impact on Government Contractors

President Trump has called himself the “Tariff Man” and has said that “Tariffs are the greatest thing ever invented.”[1] It therefore should come as no surprise that, in the first month since taking office, he has announced...more

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President Trump Signs Executive Orders on First Day Impacting Contractors

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Any time a new administration comes to power, the first few days highlight significant executive actions that impact the far reaches of the federal government. Not surprisingly, President Donald Trump's first day was...more

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FHWA Rescinds Longstanding Buy America Waiver for “Manufactured Products”

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WHAT: On January 14, 2025, less than a week before President Biden left office, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) published a final rule updating its Buy America rules to rescind...more

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Biden’s Final Cybersecurity Order Proposes Significant Changes, All to Be Implemented by the Incoming Administration

Citing the threats posed by foreign adversaries and criminal organizations, and seeking enhanced accountability for companies that provide software and cloud services to the federal government, the Biden administration has...more

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Proposed Rule For Tightening Buy American Act Restrictions

We previously commented on one aspect of the Trump Administration’s America-First policies that the Biden Administration has embraced wholeheartedly: doubling down on domestic preferences in Federal procurements. Consistent...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Biden Administration Carries Forward Trump Era Executive Order Scrutinizing Imports And Sales Of Certain Communications Technology...

On March 22, 2021, the Department of Commerce (“Commerce”) interim final rule to implement provisions of Executive Order 13873 on Securing the Information and Communications Technology and Services (ICTS) Supply Chain became...more

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Heightened Buy American Act Requirements Are Here and More Are on the Way

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To protect the U.S. industrial base, among other reasons, companies that sell goods to the U.S. government are required to comply with domestic source restrictions that dictate the percentage of domestic content and have the...more

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“Buy (More) American” – Final Rule Implements Changes to the Buy American Act Regulations

On January 19, 2021, the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council published the final rule amending the Federal Acquisition Regulation (“FAR”) in accordance with President Trump’s Executive Order 13881, “Maximizing Use of...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Proposed Changes to the Buy American Act Regulations Implementing Trump Executive Orders

On September 14, 2020, the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council published the long anticipated proposed rule amending the Federal Acquisition Regulation (“FAR”) in accordance with President Trump’s Executive Order 13881,...more

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New Rule Bans Federal Contractors from Using Chinese Telecom Equipment

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On August 13, 2020, an interim final rule published by the Federal Acquisition Regulations Council (the Council) went into effect that prohibits the use of certain telecommunications equipment produced by Chinese entities...more

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Buyer Beware: More Stringent Standards for Government Contractors under the Buy American Act on the Horizon

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President Trump has made “buy American and hire American” a key goal for his administration. To that end, the President has signed three executive orders to impose stricter enforcement of the Buy American Act (BAA), the...more

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Buy (More) American: The Trump Administration Finally Ups The Ante On Domestic Origin Requirements (With The Final Impact Still...

The Trump administration’s focus on enhancing “Buy American” requirements in federal procurement took a leap forward on July 15, 2019, with the issuance of an Executive Order (EO) on Maximizing Use of American-Made Goods,...more

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President Trump Issues Third Installment of Buy American Initiative

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President Trump continues to push forward with his “Buy American, Hire American” initiative with the issuance of his third Executive Order No. 13881 (the “Order”) on July 15, 2019, entitled “Maximizing Use of American-Made...more

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President Issues Executive Order Directing Revision Of Federal Acquisition Regulations To Strengthen Buy American Provisions,...

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On July 15, 2019, President Trump issued an executive order directing the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council (the “Council”) to amend the Federal Acquisition Regulations (“FAR”) to change the definition of foreign goods...more

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New Executive Order Seeks to Sharpen the Teeth of the Buy American Act

On July 15, 2019, President Trump signed his third Executive Order on the topic of buying American, “Executive Order on Maximizing Use of American-Made Goods, Products, and Materials.” ...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

“Buy American” (Again): New Executive Order Requires Changes (By 2020)

On July 15, 2019, President Trump signed an Executive Order requiring regulations implementing the Buy American Act, 41 U.S.C. §§ 8301-8305, to be changed. While President Trump has previously issued two other policy-based...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Government Contractors May Face New Hurdles Under Trump’s Executive Order Increasing Buy American Act Requirements

President Donald Trump’s most recent effort to maximize the use of goods, products, and materials produced in the United States through proposed changes to and enforcement of the regulations implementing the Buy American Act...more

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