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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 October 2014 Robert S. Metzger	New Rule Addresses Supply Chain Assurance There are some new rules on counterfeit parts that defense contractors must now abide.
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 January 2016 Cassidy et al.	Defense Increases Scrutiny of Supply Chain The Defense Department has offered some clarification on how it plans to deal with suppliers that pose potential security risks.
OCC Bulletin February 13, 2003	Rules, Policies, and Procedures for Corporate Activities; Bank Activities and Operations; and Real Estate Lending and Appraisals The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency published the attached notice of proposed rulemaking in the Federal Register on February 7, 2003 (NPRM). The NPRM amends 12 CFR parts 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 28, and 34 of its regulations.
Investment Advisor April 2009	New DOL Regs Department of Labor Employee Benefits Security Administration regulations proposed in the Federal Register on January 21, 2009.
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 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 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 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 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.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2007 John Keller	The Scourge of High Tech One of the worst trends to emerge in military systems design involves counterfeit electronic parts -- those that appear genuine, but which actually are substandard, altogether different, or in the worst cases, simply empty packages.
National Defense October 2012 Karen L. Manos	Contractors Charging the Federal Government For Pension Contributions Is Not Corporate Welfare In full election-year mode, news media have been awash in articles, blogs and reports urging Congress to stop the "corporate welfare" of reimbursing federal contractors' pension costs.
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.
OCC Bulletin March 28, 2002	Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money laundering Notice of proposed rulemaking and interim rule by the U.S. Treasury Department to implement provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act to combat money laundering and terrorist financing.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2010 John Keller	Industry and Government Prepare Counter-Attacks Against Electronic Parts Counterfeiting Experts agree that about the only way of avoiding counterfeit parts is to purchase components only through authorized sources.
National Defense February 2011 Sandra I. Erwin	For High-Tech Firms, Allure of Defense Contracts Is Tarnished by Red Tape Even in today's struggling economy, the prospect of scoring a big defense contract is not enough for many companies to want to do business with the Defense Department.
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.
National Defense February 2010 Sean M. Connolly	New Personal Conflicts of Interest Rules Proposed Federal Acquisition Regulations call for contractors to police their employees' personal conflicts of interest or face serious disciplinary action.
OCC Bulletin July 27, 2006	Identity Theft Red Flags and Address Discrepancies Proposed regulations would require financial institutions and creditors to develop and implement a written identity theft prevention program in connection with account openings and existing accounts.
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.
OCC Bulletin August 27, 2003	Proposed Guidance and Notice of Information Collection Interagency guidance on response programs for unauthorized access to customer information and customer notice
OCC Bulletin July 29, 2002	Customer Identification Programs This bulletin transmits a notice of a proposed regulation that requires all banks to implement a customer identification program (CIP) that is appropriate given the bank's size, location, and type of business.
National Defense December 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Competitive Prototyping 'Brings Out the Best' in Contractors As a result of massive cost overruns and performance failures in major weapon systems, the Pentagon is now requiring competing contractors to build real-world functioning prototypes of their proposed hardware.
National Defense March 2005 Roxana Tiron	Contractor Security The Defense Department's relationship with contractors is changing as it becomes more reliant on them.
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.
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 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.
InternetNews February 29, 2008 Mike Elgan	How Fake is Your PC? You can never be certain that any PC you buy contains all-legitimate components. Minimize the risk by shopping for reliability, not just low price.
National Defense November 2013 Dan Parsons	Plant DNA Blows Cover of Fake Electronics Military radios, helicopter sensors and weapons are all at equal risk of falling victim to counterfeit semiconductors that have made it into the Defense Department supply chain. The F-35 alone has more than 2,000 of the electronic components.
OCC Bulletin June 5, 2003	International Activities of National Banks; U.S. Activities of Federal Branches and Agencies of Foreign Banks Notice of proposed rule making rules, policies, and procedures for corporate activities; international banking activities
National Defense May 2006 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	U.S. Industry Bears Brunt of Past Protectionism In the United States, we have seen our defense industry shrink substantially and embrace globalization due to lingering legislation from years ago.
National Defense January 2014 Sandra I. Erwin	DoD Clashes With Suppliers Over Data Rights The clash pits military buyers who want to break up suppliers' monopolies against companies whose livelihood depends on keeping tight control over their designs.
National Defense March 2013 Jeffery A. Green	Congress Finally Tackles Strategic Materials Reform With the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act, Congress has enacted significant reforms to the Defense Department's acquisition and industrial base policy.
IEEE Spectrum May 2006 Pecht & Tiku	Bogus! Electronic manufacturing and consumers confront a rising tide of counterfeit electronics. Feeding this problem is the shift of manufacturing to China, the growing sophistication of technology, and the rise of the Internet as a marketplace.
National Defense June 2014 David Robbins	Embracing Mandatory Disclosure Can Save Contractors Time, Trouble and Legal Fees The mandatory disclosure rule -- which requires federal government contractors to report fraud and overpayments -- is in the news again.
National Defense June 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	More Services, Less Hardware Define Current Military Buildup In the midst of the largest military expansion since the Reagan administration, industry analysts warn that the gravy days cannot last much longer.
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 August 2013 Sandra I. Erwin	Forecast Calls for Stormy Business Climate Bad news keeps piling up for Pentagon contractors. In the past six months alone, the defense-contracting sector has been buffeted by draconian budget cuts and by proposed new rules.
The Motley Fool June 30, 2010 Rich Smith	Pentagon to Defense Contractors: We've Got Your Back As Defense Secretary Robert Gates reiterated plans to cut in excess of $100 billion from Pentagon spending over the next five years, they also try to reassure that they're not out to hurt anyone -- least of all investors.
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.
IEEE Spectrum June 2012 Celia Gorman	Counterfeit Chips on the Rise As more firms report finding phony chips, the danger they pose becomes clearer
Bank Director 4th Quarter 2009 William M. Aukamp	Some Thoughts on Regulatory Reform Before creating a new agency, Congress should be mindful of the already-heavy compliance burden born by banks.
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 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 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.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2010 John Keller	Revenge of COTS Procurement: Counterfeit Parts A decade and a half after military commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) procurement burst onto the scene in a big way, the scourge of high tech counterfeit electronic parts is still with us, but industry finally seems to be getting off the dime to do something about it.
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.
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 June 2013 Sandra I. Erwin	Contractors Face Fight-or-Flight Decisions The defense industry has only just begun to feel the sequester bite. Most of the top players continue to prosper even in a down market. Many companies in mid and lower tiers of the defense supply chain will likely be either financially unable or unwilling to weather the storm.