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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 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 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 January 2013 McGrath et al.	Tough Penalties for Failing to Comply With Immigration Rules Since 2009, the E-Verify Federal Contractor Rule requires most U.S. government contractors and subcontractors to verify the employment eligibility of employees assigned to federal contracts, and all newly hired employees.
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 July 2014 Chris Nagel	Whistleblowers Cash In On False Claims Act A startling trend in defense contracting is the recent rise in payments made by industry to government agencies and whistleblowers under the False Claims Act.
National Defense December 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Life to Become More Difficult For Some Defense Contractors Scrutiny is nothing new in the defense industry, but nonetheless contractors can expect more aggressive auditing and generally tighter enforcement of existing regulations.
Chemistry World December 1, 2015 Rebecca Trager	US agencies test less than 1% of chemicals Less than 1% of the chemicals currently registered for commercial use in the US have undergone testing by government agencies, according to the Center for Effective Government
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 February 2006 Reeder & Hickey	Defense Industry Political Activities: Do's and Don'ts Basic knowledge of the do's and don'ts of corporate political activity will prevent serious and potentially embarrassing pitfalls, and corporate leaders must know or be able to assess quickly the nuances before permitting any financial participation by anyone.
National Defense June 2005 L. James D'Agostino	Raising the Bar To Meet the Next Wave of Reform Recent procurement scandals have prompted numerous ethics reform initiatives by federal prosecutors, regulators and legislators. Given the volume of spending related to Operation Iraqi Freedom and on-going homeland-security initiatives, the industry can expect the greatest level of scrutiny since Operation Ill Wind in the 1980s.
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 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 January 2016 Thomas B. McVey	Executives: Be Wary of Export Regulations One of the important legal requirements facing defense contractors is compliance with International Traffic in Arms Regulations and export controls.
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 September 2010 Bombach & Jack	Contractors Must Take Ownership of Export Control Compliance A recent change to the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement provides an important reminder that all Defense Department contractors and subcontractors must implement effective export controls compliance programs to meet government contracting requirements.
The Motley Fool July 28, 2010 Dan Dzombak	Avoid the Next BP Investors can use this one tool to look out for what might be the next big risk.
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 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 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.
Entrepreneur October 2008 Mark Henricks	Hired Help The pros and cons of hiring independent contractors.
BusinessWeek July 31, 2006 Dawn Kopecki	When Outsourcing Turns Outrageous The U.S. Military has lost billions to fraud and mismanagement by private contractors in Iraq who do everything from cooking soldiers' meals to building hospitals to providing security. That raises a question: Does Pentagon outsourcing make sense?
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.
IndustryWeek March 1, 2008 Jonathan Katz	OSHA Steps Up Enforcement as Violations Rise Overall workplace safety violations increased in the United States by 6% in 2007 over the previous year, according to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
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 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 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.
National Defense November 2015 Bradel & Ralph	Justice Memo Calls for Absolute Cooperation The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act is a statute aimed at eliminating corporate bribery of foreign government officials. A defense contractor doing work overseas must be familiar with its tenets.
National Defense May 2010 Stew Magnuson	DHS Promises More Penalties for Poorly Performing Contractors A senior Homeland Security official has promised more accountability after revelations that the department in its first years rarely ever suspended or debarred contractors for poor performance.
National Defense November 2009 McGrath & Lurie	New Employment Eligibility Rules Take Effect As of Sept. 8, contractors and subcontractors must focus attention on the new "E-Verify" requirements to confirm employment eligibility of all newly hired employees and all employees assigned to federal government contracts.
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.
Entrepreneur June 2003 Nichole L. Torres	It's Classified Are your hired help really contractors rather than employees? If you don't get it right, you could face steep penalties.
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 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 June 2006 Stuart B. Nibley	Defense Production Act Speeds Up Wartime Purchases The DPA is laced with provisions and omissions that leave gaps in the traditional relationship between the government and its contractors. Patriotic contractors will embrace the opportunity to assist the federal government. However, in doing so, they also must remain contractually agile and ever vigilant in guarding their legal rights.
National Defense June 2010 Sandra I. Erwin	Battle Royale Brewing Between Government Contractors, Auditors The U.S. government is launching new crackdowns on federal contractors at a time when the Defense Department and other agencies depend more than ever on private-sector help.
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Chemistry World October 2, 2014 Rebecca Trager	EPA criticized over asbestos clean-up research The US Environmental Protection Agency's internal watchdog has found that the agency's costly and time-consuming experiments on alternative asbestos control methods lacked effective oversight and threatened human health.
National Defense September 2012 Richard L. Moorhouse	Implementing Evolving Disclosure Rules Federal government oversight, scrutiny of contractors and enforcement actions are on the rise.
Parameters Autumn 2008 Steven L. Schooner	Why Contractor Fatalities Matter Apprising the American public that the true human cost associated with military operations includes contractors and exceeds 6,000 is critical to making informed decisions for the future.
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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.