Fastest 5 Minutes: Executive Order – “Modernizing Defense Acquisitions and Spurring Innovation in the Defense Industrial Base”
Podcast | 04.23.25
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.
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Podcast | 10.23.26
Fastest 5 Minutes: Supply Chain Security and Pricing Transparency
This week’s episode covers a new Federal Acquisition Supply Chain Security Act order focused on DeepSeek AI and a bipartisan congressional letter pressing the Pentagon on contractor pricing transparency, 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.
Podcast | 10.07.26


