|
Defense Spending by State - Fiscal Year 2023
The Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation (OLDCC) partnered with the Library of Congress’s Federal Research Division (FRD) to produce this report. FRD’s analytical team includes Vega Bharadwaj, Katarina David, Megan Marra, Sarah McNeal, Noah Milstein, Nathaniel Reynolds, and Alan Stone. Anastasia Forbes and Elizabeth Chimienti managed this project for OLDCC and provided input throughout the report’s development.
This research benefited from the guidance of staff at the DoD’s Defense Manpower Data Center, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, and the Congressional Research Service. Experts at the American Enterprise Institute, Brookings Institution, Center for a New American Security, and Center for Strategic and International Studies generously offered feedback on earlier versions of this report
Read more
| |
|
NIST Invites Comments on Enhanced Security Requirements for Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information
The initial public draft (ipd) of NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-172r3 (Revision 3), Enhanced Security Requirements for Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), is available for comment. SP 800-172r3 provides recommended security requirements to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of CUI when it is resident in a nonfederal system and organization and is associated with a high value asset or critical program. The public comment period is open through January 10, 2025
Read more
| |
|
Federal Acquisition Regulation: Clarification of System for Award Management Preaward Registration Requirements
This interim rule revises the solicitation provision at FAR 52.204-7, System for Award Management, to clarify the System for Award Management (SAM) preaward registration requirements in paragraph (b)(1) of the provision. DoD, GSA, and NASA published a final rule in the Federal Register at 83 FR 48691 on September 26, 2018, to update instructions for registration in SAM and correct an inconsistency involving timing of registration. One of the updates to the provision at FAR 52.204-7, System for Award Management, included language that has been construed in some cases as levying a requirement for offerors to maintain a continuous, uninterrupted, registration during the entirety of the preaward process. This interim rule clarifies that the offeror must be registered at time of offer submission and at time of contract award, but would not be required to be registered at every moment in between those two points. The effective date is today – November 12, 2024
Read more
| |
|
The MySBA Certifications, a new, upgraded single application for SBA federal contracting certifications, is open!
To apply for one or more certifications, including 8a, WOSB, HUBZone, Veteran or Mentor Protégé program visit MySBA Certifications
| |
|
Army Announces Effort to Help Small Business Meet Cybersecurity Requirements
The Defense Department is actively working on plans to build cybersecurity requirements for the defense industrial base into defense contracts as part of its Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program, or CMMC. The first contracts with those requirements built in are expected sometime in 2025. But for small businesses who might not have the resources to meet stringent cybersecurity requirements on their own, the Army is planning to launch a pilot program called the Next-Generation Commercial Operations in Defended Enclaves, or NCODE, said Undersecretary of the Army Gabe Camarillo, during a discussion Tuesday at the 2024 Association of the United States Army Annual Meeting and Exposition in Washington
Read more
| |
MEET BUYER DECISION MAKERS FACE-TO-FACE
MARKETPLACE’s exhibit hall offers a tradeshow-style opportunity to find new customers for your products and services, and create new or deepen relationships with hundreds of diverse business leaders.
| |
|
- Save the Date -
January 15, 2025
17th Annual End of Year Federal Contractor Update
Appleton, WI
Join Wisconsin’s Federal contractors and subcontractors for this annual event. Briefings during the event will provide an overview of the current Federal contracting environment as well as highlight up and coming trends for future business opportunities.
Registration and more information will be available at
wispro.org/event/17th-annual-end-of-year-federal-contractor-update-in-person-appleton/
| |
|
- Save the Date -
June 11-12, 2025
The DLA Supply Chain Alliance Conference & Exhibition
Richmond, VA
Hosted by the National Defense Industrial Association in partnership with the Defense Logistics Agency’s Land, Maritime and Aviation Class IX supply chains to provide a forum to discuss logistics support strategies and challenges, and to streamline efforts to better support the warfighter. In odd years, the conference is held in Richmond, Virginia, and in even years it is held in Columbus, Ohio.
| |
-
Be sure to follow WPI on social media (Facebook, LinkedIn, X) for regular updates on events, news and opportunities.
| |
WPI 10437 Innovation Dr. Suite 320, Milwaukee, WI 53226 414-270-3600
| | | | |
