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Obama win means more of the same for gov't contractors

  • Wiley Rein LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 8 2012

After a long election cycle with record campaign spending and razor-thin margins in the polls leading up to Election Day, the 2012 election cycle is (finally) over

Draft Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act seeks to realize billions in savings in federal IT buys

  • Wiley Rein LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 6 2012

Rep. Darrell Issa, Chairman of the House Oversight & Government Reform (OGR) Committee, has released his draft of The Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act

Hill increasingly focused on cybersecurity threats and private sector responses: looming effects on government contractors

  • Wiley Rein LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 21 2012

Momentum is building in Washington to act on cybersecurity reform

Final rule and correction on public access to FAPIIS released with additional protections for contractors

  • Wiley Rein LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 11 2012

On January 3, 2012, the FAR Councils issued a final rule implementing Section 3010 of the Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2010, Pub. L. No. 111-212, providing for public access to information (other than past performance reviews) in the Federal Awardee Performance and Integrity Information System (FAPIIS

Proposed FAR amendment would require privacy training for government contractors

  • Wiley Rein LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 8 2011

The Department of Defense, the General Services Administration and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration have proposed a regulation that would require employees of government contractors who work with “systems of records” covered by the Privacy Act of 1974 to undergo annual privacy training

Whistleblowers' FOIA info: going down

  • Wiley Rein LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 23 2011

Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court decided in a 5-3 ruling that whistleblowers cannot rely on documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act when bringing qui tam actions under the False Claims Act

Cybersecurity legislation and its impact on government contractors

  • Wiley Rein LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 13 2011

In FY 2010, federal agencies faced a 40 percent increase in cyber incidents compared to the number of incidents in FY 2009, according to Office of Management and Budget's (OMB's) FY 2010 Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) Report

Don't spy on your customers or your competitors

  • Wiley Rein LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 27 2010

In early June, the Air Force indefinitely suspended one of the subsidiaries of federal contractor L-3 Communications, asserting that the subsidiary had been copying and storing email traffic from sensitive Department of Defense computer networks