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FEDRAMP is Hindering Facilities Management in the Federal Sector

Job Order Contracting

Publicly available services that provide commercially available information.” 6 It important that commercial SaaS providers, and the associated infrastructure used to deploy SaaS products, meet appropriated compliance requirements for specified levels of security as developed by NIST.

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Updated Phase l Environmental Site Assessment is Published But.

Green Building Law Update

Major Holdings, LLC , held a party could not assert a CERCLA defense because its Phase l report did not comply with the EPA rule. For the unenlightened, this is hugely significant because a Phase l Environmental Site Assessment is conducted in the vast majority of the 5.6 9601) and petroleum products.”.

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#126:  The Federal False Claims Act

NH Construction Law

When commercial contractors request a progress payment or final payment, they typically must sign payment requisitions under oath, representing that the amount sought has been earned – and, inferentially, that all contractual prerequisites to payment have been satisfied. Supreme Court in United States ex rel. 31 U.S.C. §

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DoD FSRM, BUILDER SMS and the LEGACY of Wasteful Politics

Job Order Contracting

released and first version commercially available 2003: NAVY funds development of BUILDER 3.0 (web-based web-based with single instance for entire component) 2005: Navy selects commercial tool for facility assessments in lieu of continuing with BUILDER 2006: USMC begins pilot tests of BUILDER 2007: BUILDER 3.0 Howieson, V. Koopman, J.

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Innovation Is Thriving In Arizona

Business Facilities

Arizona offers one of the lowest costs of doing business in the United States, primarily because of low taxes and small state government. Boasting a population of nearly 500,000, Mesa is the 36th largest city in the United States and second largest in the Phoenix-Mesa metro area. Zoned mixed-use/commercial.

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A More Even Field: The Eleventh Circuit Overrules Its Precedent and Joins Most Circuits on the Applicability of Domestic FAA Grounds to Vacate Nondomestic Arbitration Awards[1]

Constructlaw

and arising out of a commercial relationship between U.S. 17] The court explained that its prior precedent erroneously “equated the defenses to recognition and enforcement with the grounds for vacatur” [18] and that this was “plainly and palpably wrong.” [19] 3d at 1446 (“[T]he Convention’s enumeration of defenses is exclusive.”). [13]

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Great Leap Forward

Business Facilities

The United States—with the best university system in the world supplying the brainpower for the most-advanced labs—has serenely assumed that its status as the global technology leader would not be challenged in our lifetimes. But the Chinese, descendants of a 5,000-year-old empire, take a much longer view.