Compliance Stuff

What: The Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council (FAR Council) issued the first four proposed rules to implement Executive Order (EO) 14275, Restoring Common Sense to Federal Procurement, covering 20 parts of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), including the related clauses and forms in Parts 52 and 53. (The proposed rules can be found here , here , here , and here .) The FAR Council intends to issue a total of 12 proposed rules that collectively will revise the entire FAR. This formal notice-and-comment rulemaking represents Phase Two of the “ Revolutionary FAR Overhaul ” (RFO) process that began in 2025, when the FAR Council issued a series of model class deviations to the FAR that virtually all federal agencies have adopted. The proposed rules incorporate and build on general changes from the RFO class deviations, such as reorganizing the FAR Parts to follow the phases of the acquisition process, revising text to use plain language, and relocating examples of best practices a...

President Trump just injected fresh urgency into the national AI regulatory debate by asking Congress to resurrect an initiative to block or curb states from passing their own AI-related laws. In a social media post on Tuesday, the president urged Congress to once again pursue legislation to block state-level AI regulation and instead create one federal standard, warning that a patchwork of state rules threatens US innovation and global competitiveness. This development marks the beginning of the next chapter of a remarkable six-month saga in D.C. over whether states should be allowed to regulate AI at all. What will happen? And what should employers and tech developers do? The Message Trump’s message that reignited the debate  came on Truth Social late yesterday afternoon : Investment in AI is helping to make the U.S. Economy the “HOTTEST” in the World, but overregulation by the States is threatening to undermine this Major Growth Engine… We MUST have one Federal Standard instead ...