The past few years in the government contracting space has seen
significant changes: from the recently passed infrastructure bill
and its $1.2 trillion infusion for the modernization of the
country's rapidly aging infrastructure, to the heightened need
for protections from hackers and ransomware "kidnappers"
to the use of cloud computing and storage systems. These are issues
that impact not only public contracts but commercial business and
the public as a whole. The government continues to work to react to
these, and other, areas of concern but often after the fact.
With the more recent discoveries of governmental agencies being
hacked repeatedly, as perhaps best exemplified in the Solarwinds
situation,1 the U.S. government has seen a
heightened awareness and need for cybersecurity protections. It is
in this realm that various federal agencies, with the U.S.
Department of Defenses (DoD) taking the lead, have expended
significant time and resources to try to catch-up
