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(AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign event on manufacturing and buying American-made products at UAW Region 1 headquarters in Warren, Mich., Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Federal ‘buy American’ strategies run into a labor shortage

Without using the manufacturing capacity of allied nations, the United States probably cannot fill its own national security needs. One reason, according…

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FAR Council finalizes more stringent procurement rules under Buy American Act

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New artificial intelligence initiatives, Buy American increase advancing in House NDAA

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SBA sees Biden executive orders as opportunity to increase equity in small business contracts

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What’s different — if anything — about Biden’s ‘Buy American’ agenda from past directives?

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FILE - In this June 19, 2019, file photo cargo containers are stacked on a ship at the Port of Los Angeles in Los Angeles. The market for small businesses cooled for the third straight quarter. That report comes from BizBuySell.com, an online marketplace for small companies that counted 2,444 transactions reported by business brokers from April through June, down 9.6% from 2,705 in the second quarter of last year. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

Buy American initiative may push federal contractors to study shipping rules more closely

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Lawmakers tee up legislation to push DoD, prime contractors on supply chain vulnerabilities

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Time to bone-up on those new Buy American procurement rules

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Navigating the Biden administration’s new Buy American policy

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FILE- In this Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020 file photo, robots work on an electric car ID.3 body at the assembly line during a press tour at the plant of the German manufacturer Volkswagen AG (VW) in Zwickau, Germany. The coronavirus has cancelled business plans all over the world but Europe's push into electric cars isn't one of them. Sales of battery-powered and hybrid cars have held up despite a deeply painful recession, mainly thanks to the action of governments. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer, file)

Buy, American — but ‘Buy American’

The order also creates “central review of agency waivers” of Buy American, with the General Services Administration posting them on a website.

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New options for VBA appeals processing set for Feb. 19

In today’s Federal Newscast, a new report from the Defense Department shows there was a slight increase in the amount of sexual assaults reported at military…

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Administration’s vague push to ‘Buy American’ a worry for federal technology procurement

As agencies begin to implement the EO over the next eight months, the potential elimination of various carve-outs is going to be the most interesting thing to watch — and the thing that most worries the folks who pay close attention to Defense technology procurement.

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