Regulations, Compliance, & Enforcement
The Expanding False Claims Act: DOJ’s New Enforcement Theories and What Federal Contractors Must Know
K&L Gates - For decades, the False Claims Act (FCA) has served as the government’s primary tool for combating fraud involving federal funds. FCA...
Bipartisan Senate Bill Would Reform Bureau of Industry & Security
ExecutiveGov - Sens. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., and Andy Kim, D-N.J., have introduced a bipartisan bill to boost funding and reform the Department of Commerce...
DoD Updates and Expands List of Chinese Military Companies Operating in US Under Section 1260
DLA Piper - On June 10, 2026, the United States Department of Defense (DoD) published updated lists of entities designated as Chinese military companies...
AI Is Here. Is Governance?
Volkov - Are your employees whispering corporate secrets into the greedy ears of public-facing AI? Many organizations have no visibility into how their employees...
Two Export-Control Readings of the Fable 5 Suspension: An Export Attorney’s View and a Question to Users Worldwide
Centre Law & Consulting - On June 12, 2026, the U.S. government invoked national-security export authorities to order Anthropic to suspend all access to...
You Just Got A CMMC Letter. Now What?
Ice Miller - Over the last several months, manufacturers and subcontractors across the defense industrial base (DIB) have begun receiving a familiar message from...
FTA Withdraws EEO Program Guidance for Federal Transit Funding Recipients
Jackson Lewis - Government contractors and recipients of federal financial assistance are once again seeing agencies revisit guidance documents as part of broader efforts...
DOJ’s FOCUS Initiative — The Rise of Data-Miner Whistleblowers
Seyfarth - In this episode of Claims & Sustains, we unpack DOJ’s new FOCUS Initiative and what it signals about the future of False...
OMB Rule Proposes Significant Changes to Federal Financial Assistance Requirements
Holland & Knight - The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and a number of other agencies jointly published a proposed rule in the...
Defense Contractor Settles Cybersecurity False Claims Act Allegations
DefenseScoop - LOGZONE, an Alabama-based logistics services provider, has agreed to pay more than $507,000 to resolve allegations that it misrepresented its compliance with...
NDAA Provisions Would Reshape Pentagon’s Use of Ownership Stakes in Private Companies
Defense One - The Pentagon office that lends money to weapons developers would be allowed to take equity stakes in private companies deemed critical...
Reminder: DOW’s Ban on Contractors Retaining CMC Lobbyists Takes Effect June 30
Skadden - Effective June 30, 2026, the Department of War (DOW) will be prohibited from entering into a contract with a company that is...
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