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Attention Security Managers and FSOs

Client Alert | 1 min read | 07.05.17

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has issued Security Executive Agency Directive 3, and increased reporting requirements for executive branch employees and contractors with access to classified information or who hold sensitive positions. Among other things, covered individuals must report non-work related foreign travel to their local security office for advance approval and security briefing, and any unplanned day trips into Mexico or Canada must be reported within five days of returning to the U.S. Additionally, the directive requires that all individuals with access to classified information report any continuing association with foreign nationals with whom they share “affection, personal obligation or intimate contact,” as well as any contact with foreign nationals that results in the sharing of personal information.

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Client Alert | 4 min read | 10.30.26

Two Wrongs Don’t Make a Right: GAO Sustains Protest Where Agency Tried to Fix PIA Violation with a Second PIA Violation

Recent sustain decisions by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) in Fluor Federal Solutions, LLC and Reliance Test & Technology send a clear message: when an agency tries to fix a Procurement Integrity Act (PIA) violation by committing a second one, the cure can be just as fatal as the disease. The cases involved the U.S. Air Force’s $1.8 billion procurement for O&M services at Elgin Air Force Base. During discussions, the Air Force inadvertently released a pricing overview slide with all offerors’ bottom-line evaluated costs to Reliance Test & Technology, which immediately notified the agency of the error. In response, the Air Force decided to level the playing field by providing the same information to all the other offerors in the procurement, stating, “[o]fferors may consider this disclosure in their [final proposal revision].”...

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