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Government Contracts - February, 2018

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• House Armed Services Chair Wants More Spending Flexibility
• Fla. Home Health Agencies' Owner Sentenced For $66M Fraud
• Feds Get $149.5M Deal With Deloitte Over Taylor Bean Audits
• ICE Texas Detention Deal Was Improper, Watchdog Says
• Chancery Rules For Class In UnitedHealth FCA Books Demand
• Serbia Settles $40M Award Row With Greek Industrial Co.
• NASA Rightly Axed Contract Bid Over Conflict, Court Says
• Feds Seek Lesser Sentence For Ex-CEO In $36M Fraud Case
• Judge Attacked By Trump OKs Border Wall Fast Track
• Dye Co. Sues Oakley Over Military Tech Secrets After Sale
• Cuomo Aide's Call Proves Bribe Plot, Prosecutor Tells Jury
• Natus Medical Slips Investor Suit Over Venezuela Contract
• Jurors Urged To Convict Pa. Mayor In Law Firm Bribery Case
• LA Transit Stripped Of $93M Win In Subway Contract Saga
• Trump Reaches $3.9B Handshake Deal For New Boeing Jets
• Why Machine Learning Should Matter To Lawyers
• 9th Circ. Affirms Enhanced Fraud Sentence Of Ex-IRS Worker
• Ky. Can't Reclaim Firm's $4.2M Cut Of OxyContin Settlement
• Judge Keeps Retaliation Suit Against Medical Co. Alive
• DCAA 'Whistleblower' Suspension Legit, 9th Circ. Says
• Akerman Adds County Gov't Pro In Miami, Fort Lauderdale
• DOJ Ditches Much Of UnitedHealth FCA Suit
• Miss. AG Settles Fourth Prison Bribery Case
• Aviation Co.'s Doc Request Called 'Fishing' In $4.7M Row
• Civilian Hospitals To Train Military Docs Under House Bill
• House Passes Health Care Research, Outreach Bills
• Lawsuit Over Trump's 2-For-1 Regulation Order Tossed
• Extortion Count Against Ex-Cuomo Aide Cut From Graft Trial
• Libya Says Odebrecht Lost $97M Construction Arbitration
• Feds Denied Exit Bid In Contractor Suit Over Design Specs
• Greenberg Traurig Team Exits Suit By Vet-Led Former Client
• Ill. Union Sues To Avoid Repping Non-Members Post-Janus
• Feds Fight Back Against Sikorsky's FCA Suit Dismissal Bid
• Health Hires: Goodwin, Alston & Bird, Lucas & Mercanti
• Firm Plagiarized Puerto Rico Contract Bid, Dems Claim
• Sallyport Sues 'Disgruntled' Former Workers For Defamation
• GAO Backs Protest Over $4.8B Nuclear Waste Deal
• NY Transit Manager Gets Nearly 4 Years For Taking Bribes
• Pa. Treasurer Targets 3 Banks In Lending Disparity Probe
• US Steps Into Tricare FCA Suit Against Pharmacy, PE Owner
• State Dept. Approves $3.2B Patriot Missile Sale To Sweden
• Arbitrators Reject $460M Jordan Water Pipeline Row
• Wilson Sonsini Adds Ex-Skadden National Security Pro In DC
• Nontraditional Health Care Programs Under The Microscope
• Senate Budget Chief Urges DOD To Show Audit Progress
• Judge Mulls Tossing Extortion Counts Against Ex-Cuomo Aide
• Insurers Fire Back At Bank's Bid For 6th Circ. Revival
• 4th Circ. Resurrects Medical Device Co. Investor Suit
• Djibouti Hit With New Arbitration Over Nixed Port Deal
• GAO Waves Off Air Force Contractor's Bad Financial Report
• DOJ Health Fraud Vet Joins Crowell & Moring
• Miami Medicare Conspirator Gets 5 Years For $63M Scheme
• Ex-Nassau County Official Charged With Lying, Obstruction
• Crowell & Moring Adds Ex-DOJ Gov't Contracts Trial Atty
• Horizon Pharma Fired Aegerion's FCA Whistleblower: Suit
• CACI Still Faces Torture Claims By Abu Ghraib Prisoners
• GAO Sustains Protest Of $771M IT Solutions Contract
• Menendez-Connected Eye Doc Gets 17 Years For $42.6M Fraud
• Guidelines Set At 20-24 Years For Eye Doc's Fraud Sentencing
• Houston Pharmacy Owners Deny $23M Health Fraud
• Meet The Forthright Judge Who Crushed A $350M FCA Verdict
• 3rd Circ. Ruling Can't Doom Venezuela Case, Oil Giant Says
• Armored Truck Co. CEO Gets Over 5 Years For Defrauding US
• Aviation Contractor Seeks Rival's Tax Docs In $4.6M Row
• Idaho Tribes Drop DOI Law Enforcement Funding Suit
• A New Weapon To Help FDA Control Enforcement Priorities
• Navy Picks 5 Companies To Vie For New Frigate Design
• Honeywell Sues Gov't To Recoup $1.9M For Nuke Plant Fixes
• DOD Focus On 'Other Transactions' Shows Big Year Ahead
• Texas Health Science Center Pays $13M To Settle Grant Row
• Graft Jury Won't See Video Of Cuomo Aide's Wife Teaching
• Justices Let Stand Health Workers' Convictions in $63M Fraud
• Huntington Ingalls Nabs $1.4B Navy Ship Contract
• 10 Government Contracting Trends To Watch This Year
• Vectrus Nabs $108M Army Dining Facility Services Contract
• Safran Gets Attys' Fees After Beating FCA Allegations
• No Rehearing After DC Circ. Backs Toss Of Chase FCA Suit
• Senate Approves New DOJ National Security Chief, DOD Noms
• LAX Operator Unveils $4.5B Contract For Intra-Airport Transit
• New FCA Ruling Puts Medicare Advantage Plans On Alert
• Bass Berry Snags Ex-HHS, Polsinelli Health Care Atty
• Womble Bond Snags 3 Pepper Hamilton Gov't Contracts Attys
• NJ Teacher Cops To Role In $50M Drug Fraud Scheme
• How Emerging Sources Of ESI Will Impact Discovery
• 3 Mass. Proposals Signal A New Wave Of Offshore Wind
• Environmentalist Hit With $4M Verdict For Hindering Project
• Strain Gets To Jailed NY Ex-Lobbyist As Testimony Ends
• Agencies Better At Cybersecurity Than Vendors, Study Says
• DOD Wants To Clear Up Cloud Acquisition Questions
• Navy Yard Shooting Victims Must Propose Damages By April
• PlanetRisk Gets Up To $79M Cybersecurity Contract From DHS
• Put The Brakes On Acceleration Bay Litigation Funder Ruling
• A Chat With Hogan Lovells HR Chief Allison Friend
• GAO Backs BAE Protest Over $281M Army Intel Support Deal
• Feds Want 11-Year Sentence For Armored Truck Fraudster
• GSA Awards 81 Small Businesses Places On $15B IT Deal
• Afghan Contractor Nears Settlement In $78M Forfeiture Row
• Czech Republic Faces $1B In New Claims From Plasma Co.
• NM High Court Faults State's Tribal School District Funding
• Considerations For Attorneys Using Artificial Intelligence
• Rolls-Royce Should Win FCA Suit Toss, Atty DQ: Magistrate
• NATO Chief Says Allies Bumped Up Defense Spending
• Senate Panel Grills OMB's Mulvaney On Trump Budget
• Lobbyist Forced To Explain His Arrest To Graft Trial Jury
• Navy Ship Goal Still Decades Away Under New Plan
• Feds Push 1st Circ. To Affirm Toss Of Tribe's Bridge Suit
• GSA Issues $3.3B Plan To Rebuild FBI Headquarters
• What Hospitals Need To Know Before Forming A Drug Co.
• 9th Circ. Skeptical Insurer Must Cover HotChalk FCA Suit
• Va. Cos. Secure $200M Geospatial Info Contract From DOD
• High Court May Consider Ending Hypothetical Jurisdiction
• Trump Budget Would Cut BIA Funds, Up Indian Health Money
• Leonardo Drops Suit Over Army's Sole-Source Lakota Buy
• UnitedHealth Can't End DOJ Suit In Big FCA Battle
• Shareholders Must Pay Bond In $573M Pakistan LNG Row
• Sikorsky Aircraft Can't Dodge Deaf Employee's Bias Claims
• Trump Budget Calls For DOD Spending Hikes, Domestic Cuts
• JSTARS Jets Scrapped From $719B Defense Budget
• Graft Trial Judge Mulls Description Of Cooperator's Arrest
• Judging A Book: Duncan Reviews 'Justice And Empathy'
• Supplier Wins $100M DOD Radiology Systems Contract
• Emerging Trends In FCA Enforcement: 2018 Outlook
• Airbus Penalized €81.25M In Bribery Probe Of Fighter Sale
• Computer Sciences To Pay Md. $81M To End Medicaid IT Row
• Texas, Nev. AGs Defend Ariz. Law Opposing Israel Boycotters
• Health Hires: Ropes, Brown Rudnick, Mallinckrodt, DLA Piper
• Texas County Drops $3.5M Border Fence Fraud Suit
• Mental Health Centers Strike $4M Deal In Medicaid Fraud Row
• NJ Court Orders Rebid Of Auto Agency's Billing Contract
• Gov't Steps Into Eye Products FCA Suit After $3M Settlement
• NY Graft Trial Cooperator Arrested After Day On Stand
• 'Weak' Evidence Dooms Booz Allen Investors' Stock-Drop Suit
• Fed. Circ. To Decide Future Of Commercial Item Contracting
• Agency Guidance Limits May Shift Health Care Enforcement
• Trump Signs Spending Bill, Ending Overnight Shutdown
• Congress Fumbles Spending Debate, Shutting Gov't Down
• GAO Sustains Challenge To $38M Navy Deal Over Ambiguities
• Hospice Co. Pays $1.2M To Settle 2 Whistleblower Suits
• Ex-Shields Pharmacy Exec Asks 1st Circ. To Allow FCA Claim
• GAO Rejects Protests Over $7.8B SSA IT Contract
• 3rd Circ. Won't Rehear Crystallex $1.4B Venezuela Mine Suit
• Fired Lobbyist's 'Spiderweb Of Lies' Snarls NY Graft Trial
• NY Appeals Court Nixes €433M Bid To Enforce Albanian Award
• DOD Awards $950M Cloud Computing Contract To REAN
• The Art Of The Litigation Funding Deal
• Whistleblower Can't Avoid Tax On FCA Award, NJ Court Says
• $7M DOD Cloud Contract Support Deal Hit With Protest
• Fed. Circuit Urged To Make Army Consider Palantir Software
• Problematic Aspects Of DOD Commercial Item Rule
• Attorneys Cautiously Optimistic After Acquisition Report
• NY Doctor Gets 13 Years for $25M False Medicare Charges
• Judge Caps Escobar FCA Claims, Tells Attys 'Get On With It'
• Muslim Engineer Can't Prove Sikorsky Fired Him For His Faith
• TxDOT Contractor Didn't Cause Ice Patch That Killed Driver
• Senate Leaders Reveal Spending Deal As Shutdown Looms
• Fired Lobbyist Tells Graft Jury He's Fuzzy On Faked Emails
• Furniture Co. Settles Claims Over Import Tariff Evasion
• Smart Contracts Need Smart Corporate Lawyers
• Pa. Medical Pot Bidder Grilled Over Permit Challenge
• Epic Beats Whistleblower's 'Woefully Deficient' FCA Suit
• Exploring Interplay Between PTAB And Claims Court: Part 3
• Pursuing $15M Award, Cardno Says Death Doesn't Halt Default
• FEMA Urged To Justify 'Inexplicable' Emergency Food Deal
• DHS Fights Kaspersky's Bid To Block Federal Software Ban
• House Passes Government Funding Band-Aid
• NJ Rejects PennEast's Right-Of-Way Bid For Pipeline
• How To Fix Your Broken Client Teams
• ID Screener Spurned By Navy Gets Ch. 11 Plan Confirmed
• Former NFL Player Convicted Over $40M Tricare Fraud
• DOL Sends 1,000 Advance Audit Notices To Contractors
• Exploring Interplay Between PTAB And Claims Court: Part 2
• Booz Allen Scores $621M DHS Cybersecurity Contract
• Orbital ATK Must Face Rival's Trade Secret Theft Suit
• ICSID Had Record Caseload In 2017, Report Says
• Ex-Doc Gets 8 Years For Fraud, Illegally Dispensing Opioids
• Ex-NY Lobbyist Tells Jury Life Of Thieving Led To Plea
• DOD Pushes Spending Hikes In New Nuclear Weapons Plan
• IberiaBank Sues For Coverage Of $11.7M FCA Deal
• DOD Forming Cryptocurrency Guide For Background Checks
• Exploring Interplay Between PTAB And Claims Court: Part 1
• Sixth Circ. Says City Approval Needed FM Station Upgrade
• Morgan Stanley Wants FCA Claims Cut From Calif.'s Suit
• FCC Report Of Good Broadband Buildout Raises Hackles
• House Panel Leader Tells DHS To Cough Up Kaspersky Docs
• 9th Circ. Botched Escobar Standard, High Court Hears
• State Of The Union Won't Fix Partisan Quagmire In Congress
• €40M Award Wrongly Amended Post-Judgment: DC Circ.
• Matson Defends DC Circ. Challenge To Rival's Gov't Subsidies
• Highlights From DOD Acquisition Panel's 1st Report
• Feds Probe OSI Systems After Short Seller's Bribery Report
• How To Serve Your Blind Client Effectively
• What To Expect After Trump's State Of The Union Address
• Ex-Lab Execs Found Liable For $17M Medicare Fraud
• DynCorp, AAR Settle $10B Counternarcotics Contract Row
• Gov't Defends FCA Whistleblower Provision At 10th Circ.
• Boeing Scores $6.6B For Missile Defense Expansion
• Fed. Circ. Won't Rethink Clearing FCC In $21M Spectrum Row
• Watchdog Backs DOD's $16B In Foreign Sales Cost Waivers
• New DOL Contractor Watchdog Charts Cooperative Path
• DOD Acquisition Panel Calls For 'Dynamic Marketplace'
• Evolving Due Process In The Digital Age
• DOJ Has New Policy On FCA Dismissals — Finally