Defense Tech & Government Contracts
Government contracts counsel that helps technology companies win and perform federal work.
Counsel for how the government buys
Government customers buy differently: the best opportunities are often claimed before a solicitation is posted, terms are set in regulation, and compliance obligations continue for primes and subs. General Legal's Defense Tech and Government Contracts practice helps technology companies prepare for, compete for, and perform federal work.
This practice is led by counsel with two decades in emerging technology transactions and public-sector procurement, including inside major government contractors. We guide defense tech startups, commercial software and AI companies entering the public sector, and growth-stage contractors through each stage, from choosing the right path in, to protecting IP and data rights and standing up the programs contracts require.
How we support federal work
Prime, Subcontracts & Task Orders
Subcontracts you sign under a prime and the ones you issue to your vendors, task orders off GSA, GWAC, and IDIQ vehicles, and the FAR and DFARS flow-downs behind them.
Teaming, JVs & Mentor-Protégé
Teaming agreements, joint ventures, and mentor-protégé arrangements, structured with SBA affiliation, size status, and conflict-of-interest questions in view.
OTAs, SBIR & Non-Traditional Awards
Other Transaction Agreements and consortium membership, SBIR and STTR awards, CSOs, CRADAs, and follow-on production terms.
Technical Data & IP Rights
DFARS data-rights assertions, SBIR data rights, restrictive markings, and keeping commercially developed IP out of unlimited-rights delivery.
CMMC, Export Control & Supply Chain
DFARS 7012 and CMMC obligations, CUI handling, ITAR and EAR terms, and Section 889, Buy American, and TAA sourcing restrictions.
Something else
This list is what comes up most, not a limit. Send us the document and we will tell you who takes it and what it costs.
