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What this service is:

Federal Watch Center is your single source for breaking news from the Hill, the White House, the Supreme Court, and federal agencies. Get instant Web access to Daily Report for Executives, Supreme Court Today, Hill Watch, Federal Contracts Report, Infrastructure Investment & Policy Report, and BNAInfoDash Economic Stimulus.

What it helps you do:

  • Advise your clients with up-to-date information on securities and finance, energy, federal contracting reform, and more.
  • Keep up with Washington’s legal and regulatory requirements in an environment of stepped-up enforcement and unprecedented change.
  • Add to your knowledge of multiple practice areas and maximize your value at a time when client relationships make all the difference.
  • Offer your clients up-to-the-minute guidance about what’s happening, what’s coming, and how these profound changes will affect their long-term and short-term strategies.
  • Find reliable and timely reporting on stimulus funding, enforcement, legislation, and regulation — information that will help you protect your clients’ interests and identify business opportunities.

Components:

Daily Report for Executives ™ 
Rely on Bloomberg BNA for objective news coverage that you need to make sound strategic, business, and legal decisions. BNA’s Daily Report for Executives covers the broad spectrum of issues affecting your clients or business — securities, economic outlook, health care reform, climate change, financial institutions, and more. Get daily updates delivered to your desktop or PDA.

  • Congressional coverage
  • Regulatory coverage
  • Analysis & Perspective articles
  • Economic news
  • International news
  • Bill status reports
  • Primary source documents

Supreme Court Today ™ 
This exclusive tracking system, normally only available to The United States Law Week subscribers, provides 24/7 access to Supreme Court developments, rulings, arguments, and opinions. It is a daily, continuously updated source for instant information on whether a case has been granted review, decided, or otherwise disposed of. You also receive all decisions handed down by the Supreme Court, complete with Law Week headnote summaries, citations, and counsel listings.

Hill Watch ® 
This resource outlines the status of bills pending in Congress. Published at key intervals during each session, Hill Watch helps your clients prepare for congressional actions that could significantly affect their corporate and legal objectives.

Federal Contracts Report ™ gives you timely, accurate, in-depth news of legislative, regulatory, and policy issues affecting federal procurement of goods and services, both government-wide and at individual agencies. Stay up-to-date on key changes in federal procurement policies and programs.

Infrastructure Investment & Policy Report

The American Society of Civil Engineers estimates that the United States will need to spend $2 trillion over the next few years to upgrade domestic infrastructure. Count on Bloomberg BNA for the information you need to take advantage of these opportunities.

  • Transportation
  • Clean water
  • Green initiatives
  • Public-private partnerships
  • Smart grids
  • Telecommunication

BNAInfoDash Economic Stimulus 
Track the flow of economic stimulus news—and dollars — with filtered, focused, up-to-the-minute information. Effortlessly find continuously updated federal, state, and local news, plus federal funding opportunities and awards, with breakdowns by topic:

  • Infrastructure
  • Energy and environment
  • Health care
  • IT and communications
  • Education
  • Taxes
  • Labor and employment

Recovery Act-related funding opportunities, as well as awarded contracts and grants, are highlighted.

Product Structure

Notification: current reports providing news and developments

Formats and Frequency

Web notification is provided daily with Daily Report for Executives. Web notification is published continually for Infrastructure Investment & Policy Report and Federal Contracts Report.

  • Accounting and auditing
  • Acquisition reform
  • Aerospace industry
  • Airports and aviation
  • Antitrust
  • Banking
  • Bid protests and contracts disputes
  • Biotechnology
  • Bonds
  • Border fence
  • Brownfields
  • Budget and accounting
  • Budgets
  • Communications
  • Construction
  • Contracting out
  • Cost accounting and pricing issues
  • Dams
  • Defense contracting
  • E-commerce
  • Energy
  • Environment
  • Export controls
  • Financing
  • Food safety
  • Foreign military and commercial sales
  • Fraud, waste, and abuse
  • Green initiatives
  • Health care
  • Highways and bridges
  • Information technology
  • Insurance
  • Intellectual property
  • International finance and economy
  • International mergers and joint ventures
  • International trade
  • Investment
  • Job safety
  • Labor standards
  • Military construction
  • Municipalities
  • Nuclear energy
  • Pipelines
  • Power plants
  • Public private partnerships
  • Rail
  • Reconstruction
  • Research and development
  • Schools
  • Securities
  • Small business
  • Socioeconomic issues
  • State revolving funds
  • Taxation
  • Telecommunications
  • U.S. economy
  • Utilities
  • Water and sewer
  • Whistleblower cases
  • Wind energy