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National Defense February 2012 Sean M. Connolly	Update Emerges For New Personal Conflicts of Interest Rule Effective Dec. 2, 2011, the Federal Acquisition Regulation requires U.S. government contractors and subcontractors to prevent personal conflicts of interest that arise during their employees' performance of certain acquisition functions.
National Defense August 2011 D'Agostino & Jack	New Rule Proposed For Organizational Conflicts of Interest On April 26, the government proposed major changes to rules concerning organizational conflicts of interest under the Federal Acquisition Regulation.
National Defense August 2010 McQuade & Jack	New Rule Proposed For Organizational Conflicts of Interest The Defense Department issued a proposed rule to amend the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement to impose uniform guidance and tighten existing regulations on organizational conflicts of interest.
National Defense November 2006 James A. Hughes	Blended Workforce Poses Conflict of Interest Risks The Acquisition Advisory Panel noted the emergence of a "blended" workforce, where contractors work side-by-side with federal officials. The panel observed that the lines between governmental and commercial functions have blurred.
National Defense September 2009 Laura Kennedy	Tighter Rules For Conflicts Of Interest The new tighter controls on conflicts of interest are forcing defense contractors to become more vigilant to free their relationships from conflicts in all its forms.
National Defense May 2008 Moorhouse & Connolly	Contractors' Conflicts of Interest Under Scrutiny Contractors may soon be required to police their employees' personal conflicts of interest.
National Defense February 2008 Joseph J. Summerill	Congress to Enact New Accountability in Contracting Congressional interest in oversight of government contracting began early last year with separate bills during the first three months of the 110th Congress in both the House and Senate that provided for contractor oversight and limited the number of sole source contracts.
National Defense March 2015 James A. "Ty" Hughes	Rules Issued to Combat Human Trafficking On Jan. 29, the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council issued its final rule amending the federal acquisition regulations to strengthen protections against trafficking in persons in federal contracts.
National Defense February 2009 McGrath & Connolly	Final Rules on Mandatory Disclosure Effective Dec. 12, 2008, government contractors will face what rule authors characterize as a "sea change" in how government enforcement authorities expect to govern in the future.
National Defense February 2009 David H. Laufman	Mandatory Disclosure Regime Raises Stakes for Contractors A new regulatory enforcement regime has now commenced that underscores the Department of Justice's aggressive approach to procurement fraud and dramatically increases the compliance and disclosure obligations of defense contractors.
National Defense October 2011 Steve Epstein	Defense Department Contractors May See New Hiring Regulations A proposed Defense Department regulation, if implemented, will substantially change how contractors hire, oversee and track certain former civilian and military personnel.
National Defense May 2010 Dorn C. McGrath	Contractors Must Begin to Update Integrity Database The National Defense Authorization Act of 2009 now requires the government to develop and maintain an information system containing specific information on the integrity and performance of federal contractors and grantees.
National Defense March 2012 Jacob Pankowski	Take Heed of Post-Employment Restrictions The new Defense Acquisition Regulation System clause requires offers on Defense Department contracts to represent that all covered ex-department officials expected to work on any resulting contract are in compliance with all post-employment restrictions.
National Defense November 2007 Hickey & Connolly	Ethical Lapses Provide Valuable Training Tool A recently proposed amendment to the Federal Acquisition Regulations would call upon all government contractors to have a written code of ethics and business conduct.
National Defense April 2008 McGrath & Connolly	New Rules For Federal Contracts Effective Dec. 24, 2007, the government-wide federal acquisition regulation (FAR) mandates a written code of ethics for almost all government contractors.
National Defense November 2014 Tompkins et al.	Executive Orders Require Vendors' Attention While the use of executive orders and the federal procurement process to implement non-procurement policy are not new phenomena, contractors should consider these issues with renewed focus.
National Defense February 2013 Jack & Kaprove	New Anti-Human Trafficking Rules to Come A new presidential executive order released on Sept. 25 enhanced anti-trafficking compliance obligations covering federal contractors.
National Defense May 2013 Canni & Levy	Agencies Becoming More Aggressive in Pursuit of Contractor Wrongdoing After years of congressional complaints, federal agencies are responding to concerns about how they handle contractor debarments and suspensions. New civilian debarment offices have emerged and are becoming active.
National Defense February 2004 James McAleese	Safe Harbors of Ethical Conduct Needed in Defense Procurement In light of a recent series of isolated, highly controversial public scandals with respect to several major defense acquisition programs, it is important to create "safe harbors" of conduct so that both government and contractor personnel can work as a cohesive team .
National Defense April 2006 Jim D'Agostino et al.	Companies Must Avoid "Impaired Objectivity," Conflicts of Interest Such conflicts now have the attention of Congress and the administration, and will influence many future procurement decisions. The issue also will affect future company merger and acquisition decisions.
National Defense May 2009 Moorhouse & Connolly	Further Government Contracting Reform on the Obama Agenda The administration has committed to take specific steps to reduce wasteful spending, overcharges, and fraud.
National Defense July 2007 Manik K. Rath	Mergers, Acquisitions Call for Added Scrutiny When acquiring or merging with any government contractor, reviewing ethics policies, compliance programs, and all recent voluntary disclosures will provide a wealth of invaluable information.
National Defense March 2007 Ebner & Menker	Message to Industry: `Do the Right Thing' Recent headlines have raised concerns about how federal procurements were handled on a variety of levels. Introduced last fall, a bill entitled the Clean Contracting Act may pass in the 110th Congress. These proposed changes are a harbinger of things that may come.
National Defense October 2009 Stephen Epstein	Companies Must Beware of New 'Revolving Door' Policies Relationships between government and private contractor representatives must be carefully approached as recent front page stories highlighting allegations of collusion and impropriety have shown.
National Defense June 2008 D'Agostino & Parker	Self-Disclosure Rules Create Ambiguities It is unclear if a recently proposed disclosure regulation will become final, but the attention it has received from Congress suggests increased mandatory disclosure is likely to occur in some form.
National Defense July 2015 Terry L. Elling	How to Recruit Government Workers For many government contractors, current and former government employees -- including military service members -- comprise an experienced and valued source of talent.
National Defense January 2009 Reeder & Connolly	Conflict-of-Interest Plight Can Be Avoided Recently, one of the nation's largest government contractors faced a federal jury verdict that it violated the False Claims Act and breached two contracts with an independent federal agency based on failure to disclose conflicts of interest.
National Defense April 2012 McGrath & Jack	Publicly Available Information Should Be Promptly Reviewed As of Jan. 3, contractors have seven calendar days to review information after it is posted in the Federal Awardee Performance and Integrity Information System and object to its public release if a Freedom of Information Act exemption applies.
National Defense October 2005 Stafford & Hickey	Defense Industry Teams Must Consider Conflict-of-Interest Concerns Contractor teaming arrangements, long a defense industry fixture, have become even more popular in recent years. Companies need to be aware, however, of the Organizational Conflicts of Interest (OCI) policies that govern these arrangements.
National Defense April 2011 D'Agostino & Goodwin	Lessons Learned From Latest Ethics Violation The Defense Department's inspector general's office in January reported instances of noncompliance with the Federal Acquisition Regulation, and recommended remedial action to improve the Army Logistics Civil Augmentation Program IV support contract.
National Defense March 2015 Grandon & Robbins	Suspension and Debarment of Contractors: Is It Going Too Far? Suspensions and debarments to exclude government contractors from the federal marketplace incite passions on all sides.
National Defense December 2009 McGrath & Connolly	Industry Should Prepare for Review of Ethics Programs Contractors may soon have more complete answers as to how the Defense Department will verify contractor compliance with the Federal Acquisition Regulation's recent ethics program requirements.
National Defense February 2016 Fenster et al.	Don't Bank on Relief from DCAA Audits The Truth in Negotiations Act is a statute with which defense contractors are likely familiar. It requires contractors to submit current, accurate and complete cost or pricing data when negotiating certain contracts with the government.
National Defense June 2006 D'Agostino & Hickey	Career Transitions, Conflicts of Interest Employees by the thousands transition from military and civilian government service to the private sector. These employees and the companies recruiting and employing them must know the ethical rules applying to the different phases of this transition.
National Defense January 2011 Stafford & Stapleton	New Executive Pay Rules Go Into Effect The comment period recently ended for an interim rule, "Reporting Executive Compensation and First-Tier Subcontract Awards," which implements the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act.
Financial Planning September 1, 2008 Blaine Aikin	New Disclosure Regimen Planners are facing considerable competition from brokers in the arena of retirement plans, and the reality that brokers typically don't work as fiduciaries is a thorn in planners' sides.
National Defense July 2005 Dorn McGrath	When Are Defense Contracts In Effect `Non-Defense'? For several years, Congress has been concerned that the Defense Department's use of "assisting" procurement agencies and other contracting vehicles has concealed poor acquisition planning or attempts to circumvent limits placed on funding.
National Defense November 2013 John D. Altenburg	Winding Down War Zone Contracts As with any arduous task for which a completion date is announced, the government assumed the risk of Afghanistan defense contractor lethargy -- or worse -- when it announced when the war will end.
National Defense January 2012 David Hickey	Cutting Costs Does Not Require Cutting Compliance Lest anyone think the federal government will tolerate less contractor compliance, the current environment indicates that it is much more likely that the government will pursue allegations of non-compliance, fraud, waste and abuse with even greater vigor.
National Defense September 2012 Richard L. Moorhouse	Implementing Evolving Disclosure Rules Federal government oversight, scrutiny of contractors and enforcement actions are on the rise.
National Defense October 2010 McGrath & Stapleton	New Amendment To Change Employee Litigation Rules The Franken Amendment bars defense contractors and subcontractors from requiring employees, as a condition of employment, to agree to mandatory arbitration of discrimination claims under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
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National Defense June 2015 Bruce J. Casino	All Government Contractors Subject to New Human Trafficking Rule Effective March 2, a new federal government rule concerning human trafficking went into effect, directly impacting all 300,000 plus government contractors and many more subcontractors.
National Defense December 2011 Moorhouse & Jack	Frivolous Bid Protests Come With Risks The government and contractors both invest heavily in the lead up to contract formation, and both are expected to behave ethically towards one another with complete integrity.
National Defense May 2005 Dorn McGrath	Misconduct Unrelated to Federal Contracts Could Lead To Suspension or Debarment Front-page stories on Enron, Arthur Andersen and WorldCom should make evident that failure to fully integrate corporate compliance throughout the company could prove fatal to government business.
National Defense December 2014 Campbell & Belkin	Proposed Reporting Rule On Counterfeit Items Adds Burden to Contractors The proposed rules expand obligations for defense and other government contracting manufacturers and suppliers well beyond mere counterfeit issues.
National Defense March 2011 Denis Chamberland	Contractors on the Battlefield: Outsourcing of Military Services The last decade has witnessed a sharp increase in the scale of outsourcing of military services to third parties, emphasizing the importance of integrating contractor support into military operations and generating efficiencies.
Investment Advisor January 2008 Melanie Waddell	DOL Issues Fee Disclosure Regs The Department of Labor introduced its proposed rules on enhancing the disclosures regarding fees that fiduciaries of employee benefits plans receive.
National Defense January 2007 David Hickey	Companies Must Set and Review Compliance Priorities As 2006 closed, the Department of Justice's criminal division announced the formal creation of a national task force "to promote the prevention, early detection and prosecution of procurement fraud."
National Defense March 2014 Hill & Haas	New Rule Forces Contractors to Report Cybersecurity Incidents The Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement Final Rule, issued Nov. 18, will provide increased protections for unclassified controlled technical information residing on or transiting through the networks of defense contractors and their subcontractors.