DFARS

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Buy American initiative may push federal contractors to study shipping rules more closely

Federal contractors who ship stuff often overlook or don’t put a lot of bother into compliance with obscure federal shipping rules.

Congress

How Defense contractors are preparing for cybersecurity certification

Contracting

DIB small businesses leaning on cloud for DFARS, CMMC compliance

Federal Insights

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NIST 800-171 compliance for DoD suppliers: Three new critical items to focus on

Federal Insights

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Give DoD a little credit for its cyber certification program

Tom Temin Commentary

Contractors will need to start keeping track of fake parts they come across

Federal Newscast

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New rule could change how Pentagon pays fixed-price contracts

Federal Newscast

Breaking down final proposed DoD additions to federal acquisition regulations

Federal Drive

DoD could award more contracts to companies with disabled workforce

Contracting

An update on DFARS

Off the Shelf

Expert panel takes first crack at reforming DoD acquisition system

Defense

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DFARS: What does it mean for contractors?

Bob Metzger from Rogers Joseph O’Donnell, P.C., joins host Roger Waldron on this week’s Off the Shelf to discuss cyber compliance and DoD’s DFARS cybersecurity…

Off the Shelf

DoD seeks input on streamlining DFARS

In today’s Federal Newscast, the Defense Department is targeting procurement rules in response to President Trump’s executive order to evaluate existing…

Federal Newscast

DoD launching new website to help industry comply with independent R&D disclosure rules

DoD Reporter's Notebook

The Pentagon is developing a new web portal to make it easier for firms to let the government know about their independent research & development (IR&D) activities.