Government Contracts

APRIL 26, 2024

Department of Commerce on Friday issued a rule restricting exports of firearms and ammunition to "high-risk" countries, a move it said is intended to avoid U.S. national security and foreign policy interests being undermined by misuse of those weapons.

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Government Contracts Advisor

AUGUST 18, 2015

This September, our colleague Kevin Lombardo will present a series of discussions on Export Control Reform. On September 15 in […]

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Government Contracts

AUGUST 7, 2024

Department of State to order the Export-Import Bank to stop helping fund projects they said are contributing to climate change. Environmental and animal rights groups on Wednesday asked the U.S.

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Government Contracts

APRIL 5, 2024

Recently proposed export control regulations from the U.S. Department of Commerce are an opportunity for stakeholders to help pioneer compliance for the increasing reliance on the use of outsourced technology service providers, say attorneys at Benesch.

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Government Contracts

JUNE 3, 2024

Defense companies and industry groups have urged the State Department to expand export licensing exemptions included in a proposed rule intended to help implement the AUKUS agreement or risk undermining the intent of the trilateral defense cooperation deal.

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Government Contracts

JULY 10, 2024

A Chinese-born engineer has pled guilty to two counts of filing a false tax return related to allegations that he and his wife omitted gross income from their tax returns between 2015 and 2019, after Texas federal prosecutors initially charged the couple with export violations and fraud.

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Holland & Knight: Government Contracts

AUGUST 28, 2024

State Department recently issued a new Interim Final Rule that will authorize exports of most ITAR-controlled items from the U.S. to the U.K. and Australia.

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Government Contracts

JANUARY 24, 2024

A January report summarizing key actions and policy changes undertaken at the Office of Export Enforcement in 2023 is a valuable indicator of future government priorities and the factors companies should consider as they conduct export operations amid what may be a turbulent international trading environment in 2024, says Thaddeus McBride at Bass Berry. (..)

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Government Contracts

APRIL 16, 2024

Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm on Tuesday said her agency hoped to complete the review of its liquefied natural gas export policy by year's end and pushed back on accusations that the current pause of export reviews is permanent.

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Government Contracts Advisor

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Shutdown or no shutdown, the first round of export control reforms took effect yesterday, October 15. The objective of the […]

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Government Contracts

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Prosecutors have asked a Texas federal judge for an 18- to 24-month prison sentence for a Chinese-born engineer who pled guilty to tax crimes after being charged with export violations and fraud in a case the defense claims began as an espionage investigation under the U.S. Department of Justice's now-disbanded "China Initiative."

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Select GCR

APRIL 21, 2023

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Government Contracts Advisor

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Today, the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) imposed military end use and end user licensing requirements on exports to […]

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Federal News Network

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

It’s not the program manager who you have actually doing the work on a government contract. And so if you don’t have a noncompete clause that somehow ties them to the company as a government contractor, you could get in a lot of hot water.

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Procurement Notes

MARCH 5, 2024

Air Force with the expectation that its contract will continue to be renewed during the foreseeable future. 23, 2024), available at [link] ; see also Jay Blindauer, Government Contracts Inflation Update, blindauerlaw.com (Mar. The post Government Contracts Issues for a Recession appeared first on Blindauer Law PLLC.

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Whistleblower Network News

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The DOJ also alleges that Raytheon violated the FCA as it “provided untruthful certified cost or pricing data when negotiating prices with the DOD for numerous government contracts and double billed on a weapons maintenance contract.” $428 428 million of the total $950 million DOJ settlement stems from the FCA violations.

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Government Contracts Advisor

MAY 16, 2014

Effective November 10, 2014, commercial communications satellites will move from the United States Munitions List (“USML”) and the jurisdiction of […]

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Government Contracts

OCTOBER 7, 2024

A Chinese engineer initially accused of illegally exporting documents on military aircraft to China was given probation and fined for failing to report about $1.4 million in business income by a Texas federal court after the government dropped its export charges.

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Select GCR

APRIL 2, 2024

Using a capabilities statement involves several crucial steps to effectively showcase your company’s strengths and qualifications, particularly in government contracting. How can you share your capabilities statement with the world of government contracting? It’s simple – let Select GCR handle it for you.

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Government Contracts

APRIL 23, 2024

Department of State is facing pressure from Congress to ease export controls to support the fledgling AUKUS defense partnership, but concerns over Australia and the U.K.'s s readiness to protect U.S. weapons technology may be causing it to stall.

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Government Contracts

MAY 8, 2024

Department of Defense, admitting that she violated export control laws by using a front company to supply critical military components that were manufactured in Turkey. A Florida defense contractor has pled guilty to federal conspiracy charges in connection to a scheme to defraud the U.S.

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Government Contracts

DECEMBER 16, 2024

A New York state court has issued a temporary restraining order over some $2 billion in arbitral awards still owed by the Republic of the Congo to Commissions Import-Export SA following a decades-old feud over unpaid public works contracts, citing a request from a lender.

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Government Contracts

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

RTX's settlement with regulators for violating defense export regulations offers valuable compliance lessons, showcasing the perils of insufficient due diligence during mergers and acquisitions transactions along with the need to ensure remediation measures are fully implemented following noncompliance, say Thad McBride and Faith Dibble at Bass Berry. (..)

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Government Contracts

MARCH 12, 2024

A North Carolina federal court granted a defense contractor's request to stop a former sales executive from sharing confidential information and export-controlled data with a foreign rival, while the court reviews the contractor's allegations.

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Government Contracts & Investigations

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

In stark contrast to fast-moving sanctions and export controls, we rarely see updates to the antiboycott regulations or enforcement strategies. In the notice, BIS directs contractors to review the antiboycott regulations to heed any applicable prohibitions on their companies and their federal government contracts.

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Government Contracts Advisor

JULY 14, 2014

Export control reform took another step forward earlier this month, with the publication of the State and Commerce final rules […]

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Government Contracts Navigator

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The rule is intended to eliminate certain technology from the federal supply chain that foreign … Continue reading "Starting December 4th, Contractors Must Rid Supply Chains of Covered Articles and Sources Subject to FASC Orders" The post Starting December 4th, Contractors Must Rid Supply Chains of Covered Articles and Sources Subject to FASC (..)

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Government Contracts

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

billion to Commissions Import Export SA after it rejected the country's allegations of corruption surrounding the prominent arbitrator Yves Derains, who chaired an underlying arbitration. A Paris arbitral tribunal has confirmed the Republic of the Congo must pay more than $1.82

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Government Contracts

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

sanctions and export controls, say attorneys at Venable. Freight forwarders and other nonprincipal parties involved in global cargo movement should follow the guidance in the multi-agency know-your-cargo compliance note to avoid enforcement actions should they fail to spot evasive tactics used in supply chains to circumvent U.S.

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The post DoD is Making its List, and Checking it Twice: DoD Updates 1260H Chinese Military Companies List appeared first on Government Contracts Legal Forum. DoD first published the 1260H List in 2021 with 47 entities and updated it to include 13 more entities in 2022. DoD did not issue an updated 1260H List in 2023.

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

JANUARY 5, 2024

Crowell & Moring’s Government Contracts Group discusses the most consequential changes for government contractors here. Exportability Section 810 directs the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment to update guidance on planning for exportability for certain defense programs.

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Government Contracts Navigator

AUGUST 16, 2023

Viewed in the context of prior CFIUS reports to Congress, the report, released July 31, 2023, highlights key … Continue reading "6 Key Takeaways from the CFIUS 2022 Annual Report" The post 6 Key Takeaways from the CFIUS 2022 Annual Report appeared first on Government Contracts Navigator.

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Federal News Network

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

We were doing a regulatory training event talking about export controls, government contracting, the couple of other topics out in Albuquerque earlier this year. As we’re going to talk about with the Space Nuclear Policy Summit. So ACSP exists to drive down those regulatory barriers for the space industry.

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Government Contracts & Investigations

JANUARY 2, 2024

Notably, while there is no general prohibition of foreign dissemination of CUI, contractors should be mindful of export restrictions. (But we note some of the commentary in the Proposed Rule appears to leave open the possibility that DoD may review and accept alternative frameworks/standards at some point.)

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GovCon & Trade

AUGUST 28, 2023

Whether through the vaccine mandate, minimum wage increase, emissions disclosure rules, or now with Buy America (BA) rules, the Biden administration has long used the government contracting community to advance its domestic policies.

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SmallGovCon

JULY 12, 2024

Former Defense Department Employee Pleads Guilty to Defrauding Government in Fake Invoices Scheme TAKE IT TO THE BANC: A General Plea For Increased Consistency And Clarification Contracting officers benefit from a bot in the seat to their right Pentagon to assess Boeing deal with DOJ before deciding on impact of guilty plea Boeing in Talks With US (..)

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Government Contracts

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Export-Import Bank with an international complaint Tuesday alleging the agency has poured billions of dollars into fossil fuel projects, despite the Biden administration's commitment to end such international public financing. Environmental group Friends of the Earth U.S. slapped the U.S.

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