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Article by: Nicholas Hopkins, Associate On July 23, 2026 the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) proposed eliminating the federal government's longstanding EEO reporting system, a move that could significantly alter workforce demographic reporting obligations that have existed for nearly 60 years. The proposes rescinding the EEO-1 through EEO-6 reporting requirements, along with related recordkeeping...

Article by: Ryan Bradel, Partner On July 24, 2026, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims issued an opinion affirming its broad jurisdiction over bid protests of Small Business Innovative Research (“SBIR”) procurements.  This decision was especially significant in that it cut new snow on the question of whether the Court of Federal Claims had jurisdiction over pre-award protests of the government’s failure...

Article by: Nicholas Perry, Associate & Aiden McCabe, Summer Associate The Revolutionary FAR Overhaul (RFO) continues to progress. On June 23, 2026, the FAR Council launched Phase II of the initiative through the release of four coordinated rulemakings that collectively revise more than 20 FAR parts. According to the FAR Council, these changes will...

Article by: Matthew Saliman, Associate Russia has renewed its challenge to enforcement of a major arbitral award arising from the seizure of Ukrainian energy assets in Crimea, this time shifting its arguments from sovereign immunity to the merits of confirmation. The latest filing follows the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 29, 2026 denial of Russia’s...

Article by: Nicholas Hopkins, Associate On June 29, 2026, The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC") voted to rescind its 1979 interpretive guidance on employer affirmative action programs. The rescinded guidance, Affirmative Action Appropriate Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, outlined ways employers could take narrowly tailored steps to address barriers...

In a series of recent developments, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) have signaled a shift in how they will evaluate collaborations among competitors—an issue that could have significant implications for government contractors that rely on teaming agreements, joint ventures, and subcontracting relationships in federal procurement. In December 2024,...