Morrison Foerster’s Government Contracts Insights provides our in-depth analysis of developments and trends impacting government contracting. Through Insights, our attorneys offer a real-time assessment of the statutory, regulatory, legal, and business-related developments and trends that are shaping the industry. We also examine a full array of non-U.S. public procurement issues, mindful that our clients compete in a global marketplace.Morrison Foerster’s nationally recognized Government Contracts and Public Procurement practice represents the world’s leading companies in the aerospace and defense, intelligence, cybersecurity, information technology, financial and professional services, education, healthcare, infrastructure, and logistics support sectors. We are enlisted to address our clients’ most complex and important legal issues. Our work includes contract and subcontract negotiation and other transactional matters, business and regulatory compliance counseling, internal investigations, bid protests, and a wide array of enforcement and litigation matters. Our clients range from Fortune 50 companies to small and medium-sized companies just entering the public sector. We advise both U.S. and non-U.S. companies involved in municipal, state, federal, and non-U.S. procurement matters.<h2>ABOUT MORRISON FOERSTER</h2>Morrison Foerster is a leading global law firm that transforms complexity into advantage for its clients. Our clients include some of the largest financial institutions, banks, consulting and accounting firms, and Fortune 100, technology, and life sciences companies. Highlighting the firm’s commitment to client service, leadership in market-changing deals and impact litigation, and values-based culture, Morrison Foerster has been repeatedly recognized as one of the top 10 firms on The American Lawyer’s A-List. Year after year, the firm receives significant recognition from Chambers and The Legal 500 across their various guides, including Global, USA, Asia‑Pacific, Europe, UK, Latin America, and FinTech Legal. Our lawyers passionately care about delivering legal excellence while living our values. Morrison Foerster has a long-standing commitment to creating a culture that respects and celebrates differences, while providing an inclusive environment. The firm has achieved Mansfield Certification Plus since 2018 as a result of successfully reaching at least 30 percent women, communities of color, and LGBTQ+ lawyer representation in a notable number of current leadership roles and committees. The firm also has a long history of commitment to the community and society through providing pro bono legal services, including litigating for civil rights and civil liberties, improving public education and fostering the wellbeing of children, advocating for veterans, promoting international human rights, enforcing the right to asylum, and safeguarding the environment.

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Tina is Co-chair of Morrison Foerster’s Government Contracts & Public Procurement practice. She represents a wide variety of government contractors including information technology, defense, biotechnology, and pharmaceutical companies, with a focus on general contract counseling and compliance, particularly concerning intellectual property, and cybersecurity matters and federal grant funding.Tina counsels contractors on compliance with federal, state and local acquisition and ethics regulations and with the evolving myriad of requirements pertaining to data security and cybersecurity. She has been involved with numerous internal investigations and compliance reviews, and with mandatory and voluntary disclosures to agencies, and litigation of False Claims Act matters.Tina routinely advises clients concerning:<ul><li>Prime-subcontractor relationships</li><li>Sources of supply and country of origin requirements</li><li>Price reductions and price reporting issues</li><li>Organizational conflicts of interest</li><li>Safeguarding of intellectual property and other proprietary interests</li><li>Licensing and data rights issues</li><li>Handling of classified materials and controlled unclassified information</li><li>Agency suspension and debarment proceedings</li></ul>She also assists clients with due diligence and other activities related to the acquisition of government contracting concerns, and with the drafting and negotiation of teaming agreements, subcontracts, licensing agreements, and cooperative research and development agreements. She also assists clients applying for federal grants (including SBIR and STTR agreements), and those who seek to obtain other transactional authority agreements, as well as those competing for state and local government work.Tina’s litigation experience includes government contracts claims litigation in federal courts and before boards of contract appeals, bid protests before the Government Accountability Office and the Court of Federal Claims, and complex disputes in federal courts, including civil fraud and False Claims Act litigation and reverse Freedom of Information Act litigation.Prior to joining Morrison Foerster, Tina worked at another large national firm and as a trial attorney in the Office of the General Counsel of the Navy, Navy Litigation Office.<h4>Representative Experience</h4><ul><li>Negotiation of largest CHIPS Act federal funding agreement between multinational semiconductor corporation and U.S. Department of Commerce.</li><li>Negotiated prime contract and major subcontracts related to the Department of Energy’s next generation supercomputer program, including extensive IP rights negotiations and negotiation of associated patent rights waivers.</li><li>Negotiated series of other transaction authority agreements with DARPA and associated subcontracts with more than a dozen research universities on behalf of a firm biotech client, including complex IP rights allocations and material transfer agreements.</li><li>Assist clients with FedRAMP authorization process and with development of license agreements for software products sold to federal, state and local government agencies.</li><li>Cyber incident response counseling to some of the largest companies and organizations impacted by security incidents.</li><li>Advises clients on Bayh-Dole reporting of inventions and IP strategies for contracts and grants.</li><li>Conducts due diligence for major government contract mergers and acquisitions.</li></ul>

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Tina is co-chair of Morrison Foerster’s Government Contracts & Public Procurement practice. She counsels a wide variety of government contractors on compliance with federal acquisition and ethics regulations. She drafts and negotiates contracts on their behalf and has been involved with numerous internal investigations and compliance reviews, and with bid protest, contract claims, and False Claims Act litigation. She also advises on M&A transactions involving government contractors.

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Jim Tucker is of counsel in Morrison Foerster’s Government Contracts and Public Procurement Practice Group and is based in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office.Jim’s practice runs the gamut of litigation and counseling in federal procurement matters, with an emphasis on bid protests, Cost Accounting Standards disputes, and small business matters. He has represented both protesters and awardees in scores of protests before the Government Accountability Office, the Court of Federal Claims, and procuring agencies, in acquisitions ranging from small business procurements to multibillion-dollar contracts of global significance. His representative protest matters span the aerospace sector, the Intelligence Community, base operations and logistics, healthcare, nuclear and environmental work, and information technology and software acquisitions. His protests have included both classified and unclassified programs. In addition to prevailing in published decisions, Jim has also secured favorable corrective action on behalf of clients in a wide variety of protests that were resolved without a published decision.Jim’s work also focuses on disputes over cost allowability and compliance with the Cost Accounting Standards, and he has appeared before the Armed Services and Civilian Boards of Contract Appeals, in size and status protests before Small Business Administration (SBA) area offices, and appeals before the SBA Office of Hearings and Appeals. Jim regularly counsels clients on contract interpretation, organizational conflicts of interest, and small business compliance.Jim graduated with high honors from the George Washington University Law School, where he focused his studies on federal procurement law, was a member of the Law Review, and interned with the General Services Administration’s suspension and debarment office. Jim also holds a degree in theology magna cum laude from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and a bachelor’s degree in classical languages and literature summa cum laude from the University of Kentucky, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa.

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Jim Tucker is of counsel in Morrison Foerster’s Government Contracts and Public Procurement Practice Group and is based in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. Jim’s practice runs the gamut of litigation and counseling in federal procurement matters, with an emphasis on bid protests, Cost Accounting Standards disputes, and small business matters.

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<div style="margin-bottom: 15px;" class="videoWrapper"><iframe class="sticky-video" title="Meet Alex Ward, Government Contracts Practice Co-Chair" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/TkliwdSlTaQ?rel=0" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen="1" title="iframe"></iframe></div>J. Alex Ward is co-chair of Morrison Foerster’s Government Contracts and Public Procurement group. His practice covers a full range of government contracts matters, including investigations, bid protests, claims, general litigation, corporate transactions, and counseling. Alex strives in all matters is to provide his clients the highest level of efficient and effective representation.Alex represents contractors in internal and external investigations, disclosures to the government, and qui tam litigation, with great success in reducing or eliminating his clients’ exposure through active engagement with the government. His work in this area includes obtaining numerous declinations and dismissals of False Claims Act cases in their earliest stages, sparing his clients the cost, risk, and exposure of litigation.He has also served as lead counsel in dozens of bid protests involving military and civilian agency procurements of a wide range of products and services, including all manner of pre- and post-award protests in the GAO, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, and state tribunals, as well as appeals to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and size protest appeals before the SBA’s Office of Hearings and Appeals.Alex handles all aspects of the claims process, from the initial assessment and drafting of requests for equitable adjustment through litigation in the Boards of Contract Appeals and the Court of Federal Claims. Alex’s practice also covers the full gamut of other controversies confronting government contractors, including prime-sub, teaming partner, employer-employee, competitor, and indemnification disputes. His litigation work also includes a wide variety of pro bono engagements, in which he has represented both individual and institutional clients in matters ranging from immigration and criminal defense to sustainable procurement and protection of the environment.Prior to joining the firm, Alex served in the U.S. Army as a commissioned officer and an Assistant to the General Counsel of the Army responsible for civil works and international matters, and as a clerk for judges on the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Armed Forces and the D.C. Circuit. He is a member of the Boards of the Morrison & Foerster Foundation and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and of Law360’s Government Contracts Editorial Board.

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Chambers USA 2022 has recognized Morrison Foerster’s Government Contracts and Public Procurement Practice and attorneys for their outstanding work. Our practice group was again one of only five groups in the country to be ranked as Band One Elite for government contracts. Read what clients are saying about us in this year’s <a target="_blank" href="https://chambers.com/department/morrison-foerster-government-contracts-the-elite-usa-5:3114:12788:1:7854">publication</a>.

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Kevin is former co-chair of Morrison Foerster’s Government Contracts & Public Procurement practice. He has broad experience in numerous facets of government contracts matters including agency procurements, subcontracting, teaming and joint venture relationships, contract performance issues, intellectual property, compliance matters, due diligence for mergers and acquisitions, and procurement fraud matters.

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Please join us for our annual MoForward event, which will be presented this year as a series of 10 live webinars starting Monday, October 5 and ending Friday, October 9. In order to register, <a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://www.veracast.com/webcasts/mofo/mcle_programs/library/index.cfm">click here</a> and then click on the program titles to register. Once you register for one, you will have access to the entire program.Continuing Legal Education Credits: We will be pursuing approximately 1 hour of CA, NY and VA MCLE credit per webinar.Our program this year, while presented virtually, will still offer practical, real-world insights into key developments and issues confronting businesses in today’s environment. MoForward is a collaboration between our deep government contracts bench and our colleagues who have led the government’s and industry’s most significant enforcement and response teams. The comprehensive agenda will cover topics that are at the forefront of the government contracting industry, including COVID-19 enforcement trends, the current bid protest landscape, CMMC, PPP and CARES Act compliance, and much more.We will hold two webinars per day for five days, grouped by similar theme. Register for one session for access to the entire series.<a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://www.veracast.com/webcasts/mofo/mcle_programs/library/index.cfm">REGISTER HERE</a>Day 1, Monday, October 5 Enforcement Trends<ul><li>1PM: False Claims 2020: Law in the Time of COVID-19 and Much More: <a href="https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/1NQTC9rLGjHB2Wg9s3uiRs?domain=www2.mofo.com">Alex Ward</a> & <a href="https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/3_F-C0RXEMi3mXDZUW487O?domain=www2.mofo.com">Rachael Plymale</a></li><li>2:30PM: The Antitrust Focus on Government Procurement: What It Really Means For Contractors: <a href="https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/BZ4_CgJQ8yH2G1xpfEpF2V?domain=www2.mofo.com">Lisa Phelan</a> & <a href="https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/XJJgCjRO5BiqR4MPCncmck?domain=www2.mofo.com">Rob Manoso</a></li></ul>Day 2, Tuesday, October 6 Government Contracts Transactions<ul><li>1PM: M&A and Supplier Bankruptcy: Significant Transactional Issues In The COVID-19 Era: <a href="https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/GphbCkROBgiQ5y61tkHGpj?domain=www2.mofo.com">Damien Specht</a> & <a href="https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/xVQsClYMX0hZXw5pHg3WA1?domain=www2.mofo.com">Mark Lightner</a></li><li>2:30: Small Business Issues & Their Effect on Large Contractors: Changes In Control, Size & Socioeconomics, and JVs: <a href="https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/1lvbCmZM8kinWoKDf499rT?domain=www2.mofo.com">Caitlin Crujido</a> & <a href="https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/rf36Cn5N7lHomZqjHP4cTi?domain=www2.mofo.com">Ali Young</a></li></ul>Day 3, Wednesday, October 7 Regulatory Compliance Issues<ul><li>1PM: Cybersecurity, CMMC, and FedRAMP: Keeping Up With Evolving Cyber Requirements: <a href="https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/dwFSCo268mtzvVLZsEvDlS?domain=www2.mofo.com">Tina Reynolds</a>, <a href="https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/ZiU3CpYXBnh8A0NKC3hj2z?domain=www2.mofo.com">Sandeep Nandivada</a> & Victoria Angle</li><li>2:30: Maintaining a Workplace In This New World: Regulatory and Practical Challenges: <a href="https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/pU2yCqxM6of5XyPliWFp1t?domain=www2.mofo.com">Andrew Turnbull</a> & <a href="https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/PIETCrkMBpUv2R0oh0n8TT?domain=www2.mofo.com">Lyle Hedgecock</a></li></ul>Day 4, Thursday, October 8 Government Contracts Litigation<ul><li>1PM: Bid Protests: The COFC vs The GAO: Developments & Trends: <a href="https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/1dsoCv29Rwt6AnjKurbilU?domain=www2.mofo.com">Kevin Mullen</a> & <a href="https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/jsjJCwpR2xS1yEz9fLT8_2?domain=www2.mofo.com">Jim Tucker</a></li><li>2:30: What the F*%#!?!: Five Steps to Take When the FCPA Hits the Fan: <a href="https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/H8hmCxk78yUAx54wtB-0U9?domain=www2.mofo.com">Chuck Duross</a> & <a href="https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/EFkRCyPJ7zfMLPzkU6EEcT?domain=www2.mofo.com">James Koukios</a></li></ul>Day 5, Friday, October 9 Upcoming Government Actions Affecting Business<ul><li>1PM: The U.S. Government Crackdown on Chinese Companies, Its Effects on Contractors and What’s Next: <a href="https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/POg6CzpxQAS24Yp9fr5-4f?domain=www2.mofo.com">Charles Capito</a> & <a href="https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/hRyyCAD9WrHWEK32i5tztZ?domain=www2.mofo.com">Joe Benkert</a></li><li>2:30: Data and IP Rights: The Pending DOD Changes To Your Rights: <a href="https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/W7bSCBBROvi48X9BH0wfch?domain=www2.mofo.com" style="font-size: 1rem;">Jay DeVecchio</a> & <a href="https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/S0fICDkJ6xUV3LK0fp751x?domain=www2.mofo.com" style="font-size: 1rem;">Locke Bell</a></li></ul>

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MoForward 2021 — Annual Government Contracts Program

Please join us for our annual MoForward event, which will be presented this year as a series of 10 live webinars starting Monday, October 5 and ending Friday, O

Join Morrison & Foerster’s Government Contracts Remote Learning Series as our group provides a monthly overview of the latest topics in government contracting. In each webinar, one or more attorneys from our group will explain the “why” and “how” of a particular legal problem, and lessons available from recent case decisions that inform how best to navigate it. The series will focus on issues that government contractors and their legal teams often face, tailored to the current landscape and circumstances.Topics include constructive changes, export controls, bid protests, disputes, cybersecurity, key compliance issues, M&A transactions, and more.We will provide a CLE certificate of attendance whenever possible and other materials to use in seeking continuing education credits.Program Schedule (subject to change)<table><tbody><tr><td width="79" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;">Month</td><td width="366" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;">Topic</td><td width="120" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;">Presenters</td></tr><tr><td width="79" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;">April 29</td><td width="366" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;"><a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://www.veracast.com/webcasts/mofo/mcle_programs/42163244.cfm">Managing Constructive Changes:  Protecting the Bottom Line When the Customer Alters Performance</a></td><td width="120" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;">Jay DeVecchio</td></tr><tr><td width="79" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;">May 27</td><td width="366" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;"><a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://veracast.com/webcasts/mofo/mcle_programs/29163773.cfm">Effective Internal Investigations and Disclosures:  Identifying and Managing False Claims Act Problems</a></td><td width="120" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;">Alex Ward and Rachael Plymale</td></tr><tr><td width="79" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;">June 24</td><td width="366" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;"><a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://veracast.com/webcasts/mofo/mcle_programs/41172403.cfm">Government Contract “Gotchas”:  Legal Traps for Government Contractors</a></td><td width="120" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;">Dan Chudd and Jim Tucker</td></tr><tr><td width="79" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;">July 29</td><td width="366" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;"><a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://govcon.mofo.com/announcements-press/announcing-morrison-foersters-government-contracts-remote-learning-series/">Sharp Edges in Export Controls:  The Risk Areas for Government Contractors</a></td><td width="120" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;">Charles Capito and Aki Bayz</td></tr><tr><td width="79" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;">August 26</td><td width="366" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;"><a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://veracast.com/webcasts/mofo/mcle_programs/1541726658.cfm">Bayh Dole and Other IP Considerations in Grants, Cooperative Agreements, CRADAs, and OTAs</a></td><td width="120" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;">Tina Reynolds and Locke Bell</td></tr><tr><td width="79" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;">September 29</td><td width="366" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;"><div class="event-title"><a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://veracast.com/webcasts/mofo/mcle_programs/6541730698.cfm">Best Practices for Pursuing Government Contracting Opportunities:  Lessons Learned from Bid Protests</a></div></td><td width="120" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;">Kevin Mullen and Sandeep Nandivada</td></tr><tr><td width="79" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;">April 28</td><td width="366" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;"><a rel="noopener" target="_blank" href="https://www.veracast.com/webcasts/mofo/mcle_programs/61scz1.cfm">Export Control Issues, Sanctions, and Supply Chain Risks: What to Expect in the Year Ahead</a></td><td width="120" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;">Charles Capito</td></tr><tr><td width="79" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;"> TBD</td><td width="366" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;">M&A Transactions:  Key Issues for Maximizing Acquisition Opportunities</td><td width="120" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;">—</td></tr><tr><td width="79" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;"> TBD</td><td width="366" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;">Technical Data and Intellectual Property:  Protecting the Company Jewels When Contracting with Uncle Sam</td><td width="120" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;">—</td></tr><tr><td width="79" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;"> TBD</td><td width="366" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;">Employment Issues in Government Contracting</td><td width="120" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;">—</td></tr></tbody></table>

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Announcing Morrison & Foerster’s Government Contracts Remote Learning Series

On Thursday, December 12, 2019, Morrison & Foerster Government Contracts practice Co-Chair Kevin Mullen will once again be a featured speaker at PubKGroup’s Annual Review 2019 webinar. The program will feature over 20 speakers from government, industry, and private practice to speak on the latest legislative and regulatory developments in contracts law. Kevin will moderate the panel “Protests” from 9:00AM-9:50AM EST.The webinar is free to the public and PubKGroup will offer free CLE credit for PubK subscribers.Date: Thursday, December 12, 2019Time: 9:00AM-4:30PMLocation: Webinar

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MoFo’s Kevin Mullen to Speak at PubKGroup’s Annual Review 2019

GAO Finds CIO-SP4 Solicitation Is Unduly Restrictive of Competition

On Thursday, December 12, 2019, Morrison & Foerster Government Contracts practice Co-Chair Kevin Mullen will once again be a featured speaker at PubKGroup’s Ann

MoFo’s Kevin Mullen to Speak at PubKGroup’s Annual Review 2019

Protests & Litigation

On Tuesday, November 5th, we held our third MoForward program at the Tysons Ritz-Carlton, a full-day program led by our Government Contracts group and our colleagues who have led the government’s and the industry’s most significant enforcement and response teams.Click <a href="https://media2.mofo.com/v3/assets/blt5775cc69c999c255/blt21a70841e067b4ee/627318eba1a1dd2aa9f6cad6/191108-moforward-2020.pdf">here</a> to access a PDF of the presentation slides from MoForward 2020. We hope to see you next year for MoForward 2021!Our program this year showcased panels by 10 partners, 5 associates and 4 of counsel, along with recent high-profile lateral additions from the public sector. Throughout the day, our Government Contracts group offered their insights and practical advice on developments in bid protests, ever-changing CFIUS and export control legislation, data breaches, False Claims trends, an update on the Supreme Court and how it is affecting your business, and much more.

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MoForward 2020 Recap + Materials

On Tuesday, November 5th, we held our third MoForward program at the Tysons Ritz-Carlton, a full-day program led by our Government Contracts group and our colle

MoForward 2020 Recap + Materials

Mark your calendars for MoFo’s third annual MoForward program, which will be held once again at the Ritz Carlton Tysons Corner, on Tuesday, November 5. Below is a full agenda for this year’s program. We hope to see you there! As always, we will be posting the full program materials to this blog after the program if you cannot attend in person.<table width="0" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;height: auto;"><tbody><tr><td width="585" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;height: auto;">Session</td><td width="339" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;height: auto;">Speakers</td><td width="126" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;height: auto;">Time</td></tr><tr><td width="585" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;height: auto;">Registration (& Light Breakfast)</td><td width="339" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;height: auto;">—</td><td width="126" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;height: auto;">8:45-9:30AM</td></tr><tr><td width="585" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;height: auto;">Welcome & Opening Remarks</td><td width="339" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;height: auto;">Jay DeVecchio</td><td width="126" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;height: auto;">9:30-9:45AM</td></tr><tr><td width="585" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;height: auto;">Bid Protests, Latest Developments and Twists</td><td width="339" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;height: auto;">Kevin Mullen, Jim Tucker</td><td width="126" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;height: auto;">9:45-10:15AM</td></tr><tr><td width="585" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;height: auto;">Disputes & Claims:  And You Thought Nothing Has Changed?</td><td width="339" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;height: auto;">David Churchill, Kathy Weinberg, Caitlin Crujido</td><td width="126" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;height: auto;">10:15-10:45AM</td></tr><tr><td width="585" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;height: auto;">Cybersecurity and The New DOD Counterintelligence & Security Agency Behemoth</td><td width="339" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;height: auto;">Tina Reynolds, Aki Bayz</td><td width="126" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;height: auto;">10:45-11:15AM</td></tr><tr><td width="585" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;height: auto;">Data Breaches and Other Things That Keep You Awake At Night</td><td width="339" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;height: auto;">John Carlin, Alex Iftimie</td><td width="126" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;height: auto;">11:15-11:45AM</td></tr><tr><td width="585" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;height: auto;">Luncheon:  False Claims Trends & Developments – A Look From Inside and Out</td><td width="339" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;height: auto;">Catherine Ronis (BAE Systems), Alex Ward, Dan Chudd</td><td width="126" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;height: auto;">11:45AM-1:00PM</td></tr><tr><td width="585" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;height: auto;">A Practical and Economical Approach to Internal Investigations</td><td width="339" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;height: auto;">Rachael Plymale, Sandeep Nandivada</td><td width="126" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;height: auto;">1:00-1:30PM</td></tr><tr><td width="585" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;height: auto;">The New Export Regime and Foreign Investment Risk</td><td width="339" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;height: auto;">Charles Capito, Joe Benkert</td><td width="126" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;height: auto;">1:30-2:00PM</td></tr><tr><td width="585" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;height: auto;">Yes, The Supreme Court Really Is Affecting Your Business</td><td width="339" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;height: auto;">Joe Palmore</td><td width="126" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;height: auto;">2:00-2:30PM</td></tr><tr><td width="585" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;height: auto;">Break</td><td width="339" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;height: auto;">—</td><td width="126" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;height: auto;">2:30-3:00PM</td></tr><tr><td width="585" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;height: auto;">Joint Ventures & Transactions – Hidden Risks For Contractors</td><td width="339" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;height: auto;">Damien Specht, Ali Young</td><td width="126" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;height: auto;">3:00-3:30PM</td></tr><tr><td width="585" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;height: auto;">Taking the Mystery Out of IP in Other Transactions</td><td width="339" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;height: auto;">Jay DeVecchio, Locke Bell</td><td width="126" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;height: auto;">3:30-4:00PM</td></tr><tr><td width="585" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;height: auto;">Closing Remarks</td><td width="339" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;height: auto;">Jay DeVecchio</td><td width="126" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;height: auto;">4:00-4:15PM</td></tr><tr><td width="585" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;height: auto;">Reception</td><td width="339" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;height: auto;">—</td><td width="126" style="width: undefined%; height: auto;height: auto;">4:15-6:00PM</td></tr></tbody></table>