The U.S. Department of Defense’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Program will become operational at some point in fiscal year 2025. In October, the DOD issued a Final Rule to address evolving cybersecurity requirements and cyber threats while defining the
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Surviving And Thriving In The Small Business Administration’s 8(a) Program: Maximizing Opportunities For NHOs, ANCs, and Tribes
Alex Major, Franklin Turner, and Philip Lee co-authored the article “Surviving And Thriving In The Small Business Administration’s 8(a) Program: Maximizing Opportunities For NHOs, ANCs, And Tribes” for Briefing Papers. The article provides an overview of the Small Business Administration’s…
OMB Issues Guidance to Agencies on Responsible Artificial Intelligence Acquisitions
By Alex Major & Philip Lee
Contractors interested in offering federal agencies artificial intelligence (AI) can now glean insight into how agencies are expected to conduct AI acquisitions. On September 24, 2024, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued Memorandum M-24-18, Advancing the Responsible Acquisition…
Wisconsin Bell: Testing the Elasticity of False Claims Act’s Scope
By Matt Wright
Just how broad is the scope of the False Claims Act (FCA)? That is the basic question posed in Wisconsin Bell, Inc. v. U.S. ex rel. Heath, No. 23-1127. Put more directly, the case addresses whether reimbursement requests under the Schools…
A Standard on Many Levels: A Look at CMMC 2.0 in Final
By Alex Major & Philip Lee
Over the course of the past few years, gallons of ink have been spilled addressing the seemingly ever-pending US Department of Defense’s (DoD) Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Program. After keeping us waiting for years, it finally arrived when, on…
Feature Comment: The New Madness? CMMC-Mania — It’s Arrived!
By Alex Major & Cara Wulf
The arrival of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program will bring redefining changes to all companies selling to the DoD, suggest Alex Major and Cara Wulf in this Feature Comment for The Government Contractor.
CMMC and DFARS 252.204-7021—Is the Sequel Better than the Original?
By Cara Wulf
Sequels are rarely better than the films that precede them, and yet, sometimes a story is just too compelling to be limited to just one film. At the tail end of a summer full of Hollywood sequels, the Department of…
DOJ Went Down to Georgia: Lessons Learned from Recent Cybersecurity Enforcement Actions
By Alex Major
Johnny, rosin up your bow and play your fiddle hard’Cause Hell’s broke loose in Georgia and the Devil deals the cardsAnd if you win, you get this shiny fiddle made of goldBut if you lose the Devil gets your soul~…
A New Frontier in Corporate Accountability: The DOJ’s Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program
By Alex Major
On August 1, 2024, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) Criminal Division introduced its Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program (Program), which, like a modern-day Western posse, aims to bring justice to the wild frontier of corporate America. The DOJ is…
Department of Labor Issues New Guidance on the Use of Artificial Intelligence and Employment Decision-Making
By Philip Lee
On April 29, 2024, the Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) released guidance to federal contractors regarding the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in their employment practices. See https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ofccp/ai/ai-eeo-guide. The guidance reminds federal contractors of…