More and more of the federal government's work is now being done by federal contractors, rather than by federal employees, but contractors' employees are subject to much less ethics regulation than government employees.  This recommendation suggests that the FAR Council (which oversees the Federal Acquisition Regulation) take steps toward assuring that federal contractor employees maintain high ethical standards, especially in the areas of personal conflicts of interest and disclosure of non-public information. 

Learn more by joining the Conference at the 54th Plenary Session as its membership discusses this proposed recommendation on June 17.

This topic was also recently discussed by Alice Lipowicz in Washington Technology.