Jeff Bozman

Jeff Bozman

Jeff Bozman practices with the Public Policy & Government Affairs and Government Contracts practice groups in Washington, DC.  He focuses on the defense and aerospace industry, and on the labor and employment laws that apply to government contractors.

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Section 889 Update: First Wave of Acquisition Prohibitions Take Effect

By Jeff Bozman, Samantha Clark and Susan B. Cassidy on Posted in Defense Issues
The FAR Council released an Interim Rule in August implementing part of Section 889 of the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019.  In this briefing, we highlight points where the Interim Rule provides clarity; definitional issues that remain unresolved; and new procedural requirements that government contractors should track. The Interim … Continue Reading

House and Senate Will Debate Bid Protest Policy

By Jeff Bozman and Jay Carey on Posted in Congressional Action, Defense Issues
The House of Representatives passed its version of the FY2020 National Defense Authorization Act (“NDAA”) last week.  The headline story was the remarkably close, party-line vote: in contrast to past years, the bill received no Republican votes, and eight Democratic Members voted against it. Those partisan dynamics obscured the inclusion of two important amendments – … Continue Reading

Department of Defense Releases Annual Report to Congress on the Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China

By Samantha Clark, Zachary Mears and Jeff Bozman on Posted in China, Defense Issues
The Department of Defense (“DoD” or “the Department”) released its annual report to Congress on the Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China (“PRC”) on May 2, 2019. This annual report details DoD’s assessment of Chinese security strategy and military strategy over the next 20 years, with a particular focus on China’s … Continue Reading

Senators Question the Administration’s Space Force Proposal

By B.J. Altvater, Samantha Clark, Zachary Mears and Jeff Bozman on Posted in Defense Issues
The Senate Armed Services Committee heard testimony last week from Acting Secretary of Defense Pat Shanahan, Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson, Marine General Joe Dunford (Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff), and Air Force General John Hyten (Commander of U.S. Strategic Command and the presumptive next Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs). … Continue Reading

After the Final Report: Expectations Following the Section 809 Panel’s Third Volume of Acquisition Policy Reforms

By Jordan Hirsch, Samantha Clark and Jeff Bozman on Posted in Defense Issues, Government Contracts
The Section 809 Panel recently concluded its monumental analysis of defense acquisition law and regulations and released its third volume of recommended changes.  As we have written previously, the Panel’s work stands out from previous acquisition reform efforts with the appendices of detailed legislative and regulatory changes that accompany the commissioners’ analysis and recommendations. Given … Continue Reading

Defense Department Releases Artificial Intelligence Strategy

By Zachary Mears, Jeff Bozman and Samantha Clark on Posted in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Defense Issues
On February 12, 2019 the Department of Defense released a summary and supplementary fact sheet of its artificial intelligence strategy (“AI Strategy”). The AI Strategy has been a couple of years in the making as the Trump administration has scrutinized the relative investments and advancements in artificial intelligence by the United States, its allies and … Continue Reading

Implications of the 2018 Midterm Elections for U.S. National Defense Policy and Spending

By Zachary Mears and Jeff Bozman on Posted in Defense Budget, Defense Issues
The aerospace and defense industry, including those in the defense trade press, have since late evening of November 6, 2018 been wrestling with the implications of the midterm elections for U.S. defense policy and spending over the next two years.  Quite frankly, it is too early to say with certainty. As Leo Rosten, the famous … Continue Reading

“Economic Security Is National Security”: Key Takeaways from the Defense Industrial Base Report

By Zachary Mears, Susan B. Cassidy and Jeff Bozman on Posted in Defense Issues
(This article was originally published in Law360 and has been modified for the blog.) Peter Navarro, assistant to the president for trade and manufacturing policy, recently offered in a New York Times op-ed that “[a] strong manufacturing base is critical to both economic prosperity and national defense.” The Trump Administration’s maxim that “economic security is … Continue Reading

How Well Do You Know Your Supply Chain? New Policy Developments Affect Defense and Security Contractors

By Zachary Mears and Jeff Bozman on Posted in Defense Issues, Government Contracts
Generating and sustaining the United States’ global economic and military superiority over more than the last half century has depended on a dominant U.S. global economic position and perpetual technological innovation. The United States has increasingly relied on a global industrial supply chain and a relatively open environment for foreign investment in early stage technology … Continue Reading

Senate Armed Services Committee Proposes Expansive but Unclear Software Review Provisions

By Jeff Bozman, Zachary Mears, Susan B. Cassidy, David Fagan, Frederic Levy and Heather Finstuen on Posted in Congressional Action, Defense Issues, Uncategorized
As the Senate approaches the end of its debate on the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019, provisions of the bill regarding access to and review of information technology code deserve close attention.  These sections, if enacted, would significantly impact Department of Defense contractors and also would affect matters associated with investments subject … Continue Reading
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