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By: Margaret M. Cassidy & Andrew Swick Acting on directives from Congress over the course of several National Defense Authorization Acts, the Department of Defense is on the move to get Chinese military companies’ products and services out of the U.S. defense industrial base. This is a vital exercise for U.S. national defense. For defense contractors...

By: Margaret M. Cassidy Bottom Line Up Front Make sure you know if you are selling commercial, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS), or non-commercial items to the government because it directly impacts your procurement strategy, compliance obligations, pricing requirements, rights in intellectual property and contract administration: Selling commercial items: You are facing a speedier procurement process, and you...

By: Margaret M. Cassidy & Jelena Tasic Soon a new DFARS, Mitigating Risks Related to Foreign Ownership, Control, or Influence, will require defense contractors and subcontractors to disclose their owners and any foreign ownership, control, or influence (FOCI) to the Department of Defense if they want to do business with DoD directly or through the supply...

By: Andrew Swick The federal government has decided quantum computing is a key priority moving forward. On June 22, 2026, President Trump signed Executive Order 14413, “Ushering in the Next Frontier of Quantum Innovation”, a whole-of-government directive to accelerate the deployment and commercialization of quantum computing, sensing, and networking. The order builds on the 2018 National Quantum...

By: Margaret M. Cassidy & Andrew Swick In February 2026, the Department of Justice did something unprecedented in the nearly four decades since Congress created the modern foreign‑investment review system: it went to court to force a foreign company to sell a U.S. business. The target was Suirui International, a Hong Kong–based subsidiary of a Chinese...