Title: Five Big Federal Contracts Cases to Watch in 2020 | Bloomberg Government
Headings: Five Big Federal Contracts Cases to Watch in 2020
Five Big Federal Contracts Cases to Watch in 2020
1. The JEDI Award
2. Boeing’s Accounting Appeal
3. Cybersecurity Fraud
4. ‘No-Poach’ Agreements
5. Logistics Services Totaling $82 Billion

Content: Cir., No. 19-2148. The government was “shaking down” Boeing, the company said in its effort to seek contractual and declaratory relief. The claims court erroneously decided Boeing waived the right to raise claims because the company didn’t inquire into an accounting rule ambiguity on entering into a $66 million U.S. Navy contract, Boeing told the Federal Circuit. Boeing also says the claims court erred in concluding it doesn’t have jurisdiction over its claim that the government’s effort to recover the $1 million, despite receiving $1.5 million in aggregate savings from Boeing’s two contract accounting changes, was an unlawful taking. The government says in a Dec. 23 brief that Boeing’s “failure to raise what it considers to be an obvious statutory conflict to the government, prior to entering into the contract, precludes its recovery now.” 3. Cybersecurity Fraud
Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings Inc., a missile defense and rocket engine contractor, is facing a False Claims Act suit alleging it failed to comply with federal cybersecurity requirements under DOD and NASA contracts in United States ex rel. Markus v. Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings Inc., E.D. Cal.,