Fastest 5 Minutes, The Podcast Government Contractors Can’t Do Without

Fastest 5 Minutes: Executive Order – “Implementing the President’s Department of Government Efficiency Cost Efficiency Initiative”

This week’s episode features a deep dive on the President’s Executive Order, Implementing the President’s Department of Government Efficiency Cost Efficiency Initiative, which imposes significant requirements and will likely impact many government contractors and grantees. This episode 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.

 

Implementing the President’s Department of Government Efficiency Cost Efficiency Initiative:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/implementing-the-presidents-department-of-government-efficiency-cost-efficiency-initiative/

 

Fastest 5 Minutes: GSA Class Deviations, DEI, Government Transparency

This week’s episode covers GSA Class Deviations partially implementing the Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity Executive Order, the White House memorandum entitled Radical Transparency About Wasteful Spending, litigation challenging recent government actions, and other developments we are tracking, 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.

Fastest 5 Minutes: OCIs, CUI, and Small Business

This week’s episode covers a proposed rule to implement the 2022 Preventing OCIs in Federal Acquisition Act, a proposed rule amending the FAR to implement federal government-wide Controlled Unclassified Information cybersecurity, training, and incident reporting requirements, and a final rule amending multiple aspects of the SBA’s small business size and status programs, 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.

Fastest 5 Minutes: Executive Orders, DEI, Tariffs, and DOGE

This week’s special edition focuses on the “Ending Illegal Discrimination And Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity” Executive Order, a Presidential Memorandum entitled “America First Trade Policy,” and the latest on Department of Government Efficiency (“DOGE”), and is hosted by Peter Eyre, Rebecca Springer, and Alex Schaefer. 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.

Fastest 5 Minutes: Suspension and Debarment, Pay Equity, 1260H List Updates, FY 2025 NDAA

This week's episode covers the FAR final rule to harmonize the procurement and nonprocurement suspension and debarment regulations, rescission of the FAR proposed rule on Pay Equity and Transparency in Federal Contracting, updates to the 1260H List of Chinese military companies, and passage of the FY2025 NDAA, and is hosted by 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.

Special Edition of the Fastest 5 Minutes: Labor and Employment under the New Administration

This week’s special edition focuses on what contractors can expect from the incoming administration relating to labor and employment matters, and is hosted by Peter Eyre and Kris Meade. 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.

Special Edition of the Fastest 5 Minutes: New Administration – Conflicts of Interest, Revolving Door, and Bid Protests

This week’s special edition focuses on what contractors can expect from the incoming administration relating to conflicts of interest, revolving door, and bid protests, and is hosted by Yuan Zhou, Dan Forman, and Rob Sneckenberg. 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.

Special Edition of the Fastest 5 Minutes: New Administration – Domestic Preferences and Supply Chain Security

This week’s special edition focuses on what contractors can expect from the incoming administration relating to domestic preferences, supply chain security and sourcing, and evolving requirements and enforcement, and is hosted by Yuan Zhou, Addie Cliffe, and Alex Barbee-Garrett. 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.

Fastest 5 Minutes: New Administration & Tariffs

This week’s special edition focuses on what contractors can expect from the incoming administration in terms of tariffs, and is hosted by Peter Eyre and Alex Schaefer. 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.

Fastest 5 Minutes: New Administration

This week’s special edition focuses on what contractors can expect from the incoming administration relating to contract changes, terminations, possible tariffs, and other similar considerations, and is hosted by Peter Eyre and Steve McBrady. 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.