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Contracting Officer's Final Decision Not Afforded RES Judicata Status

Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 05.10.04

In Roxco, Ltd. v. United States (Mar. 29, 2004), the COFC, among other things, rejected the Air Force's argument that Roxco's equitable adjustment claims, which were submitted more than a year after the Contracting Officer's default termination decision, should be barred through the application of res judicata, even if, as the Air Force asserted, those claims could have been raised as defenses to the default termination. The COFC reasoned that an extension of res judicata to contracting officers' final decisions would contradict the Contract Disputes Act's six-year statutory time limit for filing claims.

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Client Alert | 7 min read | 05.19.26

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On May 1, 2026, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), the Australian Cyber Security Centre, the UK National Cyber Security Centre, the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security, and the New Zealand National Cyber Security Centre, published joint guidance on the “Careful Adoption of Agentic AI Services” (Guidance). ...