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DoD’s Dropping of Mitigation Scheme In Conflict of Interest Rule Scrutinized

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Wednesday, January 5th, 2011

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By Emelie Rutherford The Pentagon's newly unveiled rule for handling organizational conflicts of interest (OCI) by defense contractors is raising some concerns in the defense industry because it drops a previously proposed plan regarding mitigation of such clashes. The Department of Defense (DoD) published the final OCI rule in the Federal Register on Dec. 29, 2010, eight months after it unveiled a draft rule that raised some eyebrows in industry and on Capitol Hill. The Pentagon was directed in the…

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