The Federal Acquisition Regulatory Counsel has published a Proposed Rule to implement a government wide definition and set of protections for controlled unclassified information (CUI). Alex Major, Co-Chair of McCarter’s Government Contracts & Global Trade Practice, spoke with Law360 and said that the proposed rule, if finalized, would create new burdens for contractors in areas such as identifying and reporting potential CUI that cut against the goals of efficiency, consistency and protection. “I think they made the complicated issue of CUI maybe a little bit more complicated by removing any sense of certainty that previously existed,” he said.
To learn more about the FAR Council’s proposed rule, visit our Government Contracts Law blog.