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Government Contracts Law as an Instrument of National Power: A Perspective from the Department of the Air Force 51 Public Contract Law Journal 553 (2022) Daniel Schoeni U.S. Air Force JAG Corps September 28, 2022 Courtesy of SSRN Please Read Government Contracts Law as an Instrument of National Power: A Perspective from the Department of the Air Force

I've been interrupted by my dogs every time I sit down to write something. There have been numerous individuals who have published their writings on Wifcon.com and they have all benefitted from publishing their articles here. As I have mentioned, h-t-h's article that was publised well over a decade ago, was the most popular article in September 2022. The articles published on Wifcon.com have staying power. If they are good, they are read over and over again each month. You have an international audience here. USE IT. It's free.

When Wifcon.com was about 7 years old, Vern had submitted a number of articles to Wifcon.com for publication. Way back then, his articles were viewed tens of thousands of times. I am confident to say that after 24 years his articles have been viewed well over a million times on Wifcon.com.

h_t_h: In the normal course of Wifcon.com business, I noticed an old article published on Wifcon.com from many years ago. I noticed it because It was the most popular article viewed on Wifcon.com in September 2022. h_2_h ---- it was one of your articles. I will add more to this note at a later date.

Joel: Here's more about the Sino-American Joint Fighter. Did hackers break into a top-secret USAF program? F-35 secrets now showing up in China’s stealth fighter. US reexamines cybersecurity after Russian hack Theft of F-35 design data is helping U.S. adversaries -Pentagon These articles have various dates.

I found this at 1 PM on 10/8/22 and posted it on the Home Page and here. If you want to know why, see the POGO explanation.. Project on Government Oversight Use of Chinese Material in F-35 Highlights Pentagon’s Complexity Problem. (September 26, 2022) You can read about it here: DefenseNews.

See State of Ohio v. U. S., No. 20-288C, October 7, 2022.

My dogs are sick tonight and I have been awake since 2 AM. We've had 4 straight days of heavy rain and I've been out twice in the dark tonight with the dogs. So, I started looking at the Eisenhower Farewell and then, of course, I thought of the A-12. This is an interview from 2014 with Frank Murray of the "CIA Air Force" which included the A-12. After researching the A-12 for about 2 years you learn a lot about it. Murrsy has an excellent memory. It is on YouTube and titled: Frank Murray Oral Interview, Lockheed A-12, 4/29/14. Murray flew the last of the A-12s from Kadena and he landed at Area 51. From there, at night, to keep the A-12 secret he flew the last flight to Palmdale where the CIA had the A-12s stored for about 15 years.

Lenny was headed for Russia.

He's supposed to be on his way to Brazil. He needs to find a country that does not have extradition rights with us.

Try this. It only goes back to 1999. It doesn't answer your question but if you want to illustrate an increase in complexity, this might help. On the left is the FACs since 1999. On the right are the FAR Cases. Federal Acquisition Regulation Research.

The thing that caught my eye with that protest, besides the length, was the publication date--September 18. That was Sunday.

Where's Lenny?

See Case Affirms Rights of Contractors Facing Debarment at the NDIA's Business and Technology Magazine. Precision Metals Corp. v. U.S. Dep't of Def., 22-CV-3761(JS)(ARL) (E.D.N.Y. Jul. 22, 2022) The case I linked is the extension of the temporary restraining order (TRO) and it is in the District Court for the Eastern District of New York. The current TRO ends in early September. The procedures for a debarment are at FAR 9.406-3.

Don: I started correcting the code in your blog post. That is when the software was making up its own code with decorations in 2010. I see what was done and I think I can fix it. I'll try to get back to it later.

Can anyone help with this?

I looked at one of the beginning lines in the case . . . I haven't looked at the arguments yet but my immediate view is that vendor lists as technical data is nonsense. Then I thought of the use of "technical evaluations" of offerors price proposals that we used 50 years ago. I wouldn't view that as technical either. I can still remember a GAO auditor from our Philadelphia region who did the old GAO pricing reviews using his term "techeval" whenever he saw me. That was in the early 1970s.

Here are examples of how is it used. See Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company v. U. S., ASBCA No. 62209, August 3, 2022. Also see King Aerospace, Inc., ASBCA No. 60933, 19- 1 BCA ¶ 37,316.

Thank you all. That is the case. There is an article about the affair from that time in the British Independent. The Spy Who Conned Me': a real-life thriller in Surrey

Years ago, I read a Court of Federal Claims case in which a second party was trying to get payment from the CIA because he had contracted with a CIA agent in the field. In the case, the second party could not prove the agent ever existed because the agent was using an alias. It was an amusing predicament but I never posted it here. I've searched several different times over the years but never could find it. I would recognize it if I read it again. Can comeone identify that case and let me know what it was?

Textron Aviation Defense LLC v. U. S., No. 20-1903C, August 12, 2022

It appears that this discussion has run its course.

And here comes some more: H. R. 7900 - National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023. Passed House and crawled into the Senate awaiting further perfection. S. 4543 - James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023. Introduced in July 2022 and ready for more perfection in the Senate. If that doesn't register, check out this page and read some of those GOBBLERS. Most have no chance of becoming law buy some may.

THE MEANING OF “SHOULD”: Two Approaches. by Ralph C. Nash with an addendum by Vernon J. Edwards.

Start with the low hanging fruit. There is the Press Release that accompanies the bill. Start with that. He introduced S. 583 - PRICE Act of 2021 which became law and he mentioned in his press release. Why? There was a Business Meeting today in the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee that included discussions on this bill among others. Start at about the 17 minute mark. Maybe Peters will elaborate on it there. I believe he might mention that there will be markups of the bills in September. That may be followed by a Senate report when and if it gets out of committee. I wouldn't go any further than the press release and the business meeting at this time--unless the press release mentions something specific. The bill only has about 2 months in this Congreess for anything to happen. Then it has to be introduced in the new 118th Congress beginning next year. [At about the 35 minute mark Senator Lankford mentions a couple things in the bill. Apparently, he and his staff worked on it too.]