This special edition covers the SBA’s August 2024 proposed rule to update and clarify various small business programs, and is hosted by Yuan Zhou and Olivia Lynch. Crowell & Moring's "Fastest 5 Minutes" is a biweekly podcast that provides a brief summary of significant government contracts legal and regulatory developments that no government contracts lawyer or executive should be without.

Crowell has also provided written discussion of SBA’s proposed rule here:
https://www.crowell.com/en/insights/client-alerts/sba-proposed-rule-would-enact-material-changes-as-well-as-promote-regulatory-uniformity-across-size-and-status-programs

Special Edition of the F5M: SBA Proposed Rule to Update Various SBA Small Business Programs

This week's episode covers the FAR final rule to harmonize the procurement and nonprocurement suspension and debarment regulations, rescission of the FAR proposed rule on Pay Equity and Transparency in Federal Contracting, updates to the 1260H List of Chinese military companies, and passage of the FY2025 NDAA, and is hosted by Yuan Zhou. Crowell & Moring's "Fastest 5 Minutes" is a biweekly podcast that provides a brief summary of significant government contracts legal and regulatory developments that no government contracts lawyer or executive should be without.

Fastest 5 Minutes: Suspension and Debarment, Pay Equity, 1260H List Updates, FY 2025 NDAA

This week’s special edition focuses on the “Ending Illegal Discrimination And Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity” Executive Order, a Presidential Memorandum entitled “America First Trade Policy,” and the latest on Department of Government Efficiency (“DOGE”), and is hosted by Peter Eyre, Rebecca Springer, and Alex Schaefer. Crowell & Moring's "Fastest 5 Minutes" is a biweekly podcast that provides a brief summary of significant government contracts legal and regulatory developments that no government contracts lawyer or executive should be without.

Fastest 5 Minutes: Executive Orders, DEI, Tariffs, and DOGE

This week’s episode covers a proposed rule to implement the 2022 Preventing OCIs in Federal Acquisition Act, a proposed rule amending the FAR to implement federal government-wide Controlled Unclassified Information cybersecurity, training, and incident reporting requirements, and a final rule amending multiple aspects of the SBA’s small business size and status programs, and is hosted by Peter Eyre and Yuan Zhou. Crowell & Moring's "Fastest 5 Minutes" is a biweekly podcast that provides a brief summary of significant government contracts legal and regulatory developments that no government contracts lawyer or executive should be without.

Fastest 5 Minutes: OCIs, CUI, and Small Business

In this episode, hosts Jason Crawford, Agustin Orozco, and Yuan Zhou discuss the evolving disclosure landscape and the various risks and rewards that contractors must weigh when deciding what to disclose, when to disclose, and where to direct the disclosure. "Let's Talk FCA" is Crowell & Moring’s podcast covering the latest developments with the False Claims Act.

Let's Talk FCA: Evolving Disclosure Considerations for Contractors

In this episode, hosts Payal Nanavati and Megan Beaver talk to Alice Hall-Partyka and Savanna Williams about the impact of Executive Order 14187 on access to gender-affirming care for individuals under the age of 19. Alice and Savanna delve into the implications of this EO, and others, on payors, providers, and potentially conflicting state laws.

Executive Order 14187: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/02/03/2025-02194/protecting-children-from-chemical-and-surgical-mutilation


Gender-Affirming Care

This week’s episode covers GSA Class Deviations partially implementing the Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity Executive Order, the White House memorandum entitled Radical Transparency About Wasteful Spending, litigation challenging recent government actions, and other developments we are tracking, and is hosted by Peter Eyre and Yuan Zhou. Crowell & Moring's "Fastest 5 Minutes" is a biweekly podcast that provides a brief summary of significant government contracts legal and regulatory developments that no government contracts lawyer or executive should be without.

Fastest 5 Minutes: GSA Class Deviations, DEI, Government Transparency

This week’s episode features a deep dive on the President’s Executive Order, Implementing the President’s Department of Government Efficiency Cost Efficiency Initiative, which imposes significant requirements and will likely impact many government contractors and grantees. This episode is hosted by Peter Eyre and Yuan Zhou. Crowell & Moring's "Fastest 5 Minutes" is a biweekly podcast that provides a brief summary of significant government contracts legal and regulatory developments that no government contracts lawyer or executive should be without.

Implementing the President’s Department of Government Efficiency Cost Efficiency Initiative:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/implementing-the-presidents-department-of-government-efficiency-cost-efficiency-initiative/

Fastest 5 Minutes: Executive Order – “Implementing the President’s Department of Government Efficiency Cost Efficiency Initiative”

On March 12, the California Consumer Privacy Protection Agency announced it had entered into a settlement with Honda totaling more than $630,000 to resolve the Agency’s claims that Honda violated the California Consumer Privacy Act. The investigation came out of the Agency’s review of vehicles with embedded features such as location sharing, smartphone integration, and cameras.

&Motion sits down with Crowell’s own cyber/data professional, Jason Johnson, to discuss the CCPA, its scope and depth, the settlement with Honda, and its implications for the industry and consumers. 

&Motion is a podcast addressing all things related to the transportation industry hosted by Paul Keller.

&Motion: Lessons From the CPPA’s Settlement with a Connected Vehicle Manufacturer

This week’s episode features a deep dive on the President’s Executive Order, Eliminating Waste and Saving Taxpayer Dollars by Consolidating Procurement, which directs the consolidation of certain types of “domestic federal procurement” under the General Services Administration in an effort to “eliminate waste and duplication.” This episode is hosted by Peter Eyre and Yuan Zhou. Crowell & Moring's "Fastest 5 Minutes" is a biweekly podcast that provides a brief summary of significant government contracts legal and regulatory developments that no government contracts lawyer or executive should be without.

Eliminating Waste and Saving Taxpayer Dollars by Consolidating Procurement:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/eliminating-waste-and-saving-taxpayer-dollars-by-consolidating-procurement/

Fastest 5 Minutes: Executive Order – “Eliminating Waste and Saving Taxpayer Dollars by Consolidating Procurement”

This week’s episode features a deep-dive on Executive Order 14265, Modernizing Defense Acquisitions and Spurring Innovation in the Defense Industrial Base, which calls for a “comprehensive overhaul” of the DoD acquisition system to deliver state‐of‐the‐art capabilities at speed and scale. This episode is hosted by Yuan Zhou, Jon Baker, and Eric Ransom. Crowell & Moring's "Fastest 5 Minutes" is a biweekly podcast that provides a brief summary of significant government contracts legal and regulatory developments that no government contracts lawyer or executive should be without.

Modernizing Defense Acquisitions and Spurring Innovation in the Defense Industrial Base:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/modernizing-defense-acquisitions-and-spurring-innovation-in-the-defense-industrial-base/

Fastest 5 Minutes: Executive Order – “Modernizing Defense Acquisitions and Spurring Innovation in the Defense Industrial Base”

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Special Edition of the F5M: SBA Proposed Rule to Update Various SBA Small Business Programs

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