Federal Acquisition Regulation

A lot of the criticism of aid It's because of the counter-bureaucracy over which we have no control.

We didn't write the federal acquisition regulations.

The Congress did.

I actually said that.

A congresswoman, chairman of the—why do you have these big contracts? I said because you passed the federal acquisition regulations that apply to everybody in the federal government, every department.

They're not written for a development agency.

They're written basically for HHS and the Defense Department.

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You have a CUI FAR case, Federal Acquisition Regulations case that's moving to Rev.

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If you remember earlier this year, the General Services Administration put out a CUI protection type of guide or recommendations.

Industry and legal experts are urging the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council to set government-wide rules around federal agencies' use of artificial intelligence in federal procurement.

They say the ongoing federal acquisition regulation overhaul is an opportunity for the council to address the use of these tools in proposal evaluation, price analysis, and contract file documentation.

Federal News Network's Anastasia Obis is here with more detail.

Anastasia, thanks for joining me.

What steps has an actual person taken to validate the recommendations, but there is no requirement to be transparent and currently there is no federal acquisition rule.

that addresses that and that governs how AI can be used in federal procurement.

So right now, the government is undertaking the first comprehensive overhaul of the federal acquisition regulation.

It's rewriting it in plain language.

Now, one other thing that the RFI respondents highlighted was concerns about that inconsistency of CUI marking and they associated what they call ambiguity or burden into determining whether and which systems should be secured.

And in fact, in the summary of the RFI, What's interesting here is DoD even writes, if published as already planned in the Federal Acquisition Regulations Rule, would include the establishment of a new standard form for clearly articulating the CUI data to be shared and safeguarded during the performance of the contract.

Now, this is part of a rulemaking that the Federal Acquisition Regulations is going through, and that would potentially relieve some of the burden that DoD highlighted as CMMC being overburdened some that's already in process.

So, again, two things happening together that would kind of alleviate some concern.

The existing draft rule, again, for CUI, DoD writes, also would drastically reduce, again, the burden on small businesses by narrowing the population that must actually comply with NIST 800-171.

and does what is not in the FAR.

You can go look this up, Federal Acquisition Regulation.

Go look it up.

It's called abandon in place.