Stephanie Kostro

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Contractors see new cyber reporting rules everywhere they look

Multiple competing cyber reporting rules have been released recently, with overlapping guidance and areas of responsibility. Is it overkill?

Contracting

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State Department’s R&D approach has industry puzzled

Contracting

How rules are changing for defense-weapons contractors

Defense

Sequestration’s head pops up, for a peek at continuing budget uncertainty

Budget

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Industry groups push back on cyber incident rules requiring “full access”

Acquisition Policy

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Contractors on edge because of Pentagon’s proposed buying rules

Cybersecurity

Can a data environment actually improve federal procurement?

Big Data

Comments are closed. Will the FedRAMP program actually get updated?

Cloud Computing

Average security-clearance-processing speed, hits a speed bump

Workforce

New House Speaker. New cyber guidelines. What contractors can do to navigate it all.

Congress

Less than a week in, contractors sort out the meaning of the 45-day continuing resolution

Contracting

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There they go again: Labor proposes overtime for salaried contractor employees

The Labor Department has revived an old idea: Salaried private-sector employees who work overtime. Well, you can’t just compensate them with pizza. A rule…

Contracting

A forest of proposed rules sprouts up around federal acquisition

Buy-American and not-buy-from-China rules have raised concerns from contractors. Meanwhile the FTC proposes new rules on contractor mergers that look practically…

Acquisition

Cybersecurity comes home to roost for federal contractors

Cybersecurity

Contractors will, somehow, be living under it, and there’s still time to comment on it: The revision to NIST special publication 800-171 on protection of controlled, unclassified information. That’s not the only cyber policy affecting contractors.