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Agencies must designate a senior official to spearhead efforts to support domestic manufacturing.
The White House on Friday released a memo instructing agencies to designate a senior official to spearhead efforts to support domestic manufacturing.
President Biden issued an executive order on January 25 to push federal agencies to buy more products made in the United States, an effort that builds on current, related laws. The order directed the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council to consider proposing rules to tighten up “Buy American” requirements within 180 days (by July 24), required the General Services Administration to create a public website for proposed waivers and justifications, and established a Made in America Office within the Office of Management and Budget to review any waivers issued that allow the purchase of goods from outside t
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making investments to ensure future power and energy needs are met by exploring improvements in silicon anode technologies to support lightweight battery prototype development.
Today, the Defense Department released the Strategic and Critical Materials 100-day Sector Review, as directed by Executive Order 14017. Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III released the following statement:
“Strategic and critical materials are vital to our national defense and economic prosperity, enabling the United States to develop and sustain emerging technologies. They also improve our warfighting capability, support family-sustaining jobs, and strengthen our alliances and partnerships. Though there is more work to be done, the Department of Defense remains committed to a whole-of-government approach to preserve our access to strategic and critical materials. This is important not only for our national defense, but to ensure our national economic well-being.”
On May 20, 2021, President Biden signed an Executive Order to address predicted financial instability in the federal government as a result of climate change.
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On April 27, 2021, President Biden issued an Executive Order under his authority as President and through the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act, 40 U.S.C. 101
et seq., increasing the minimum wage paid to workers employed for federal government contracts and subcontracts.
1 Here are the main points of the Order that will directly affect federal contractors:
Beginning on January 30, 2022, the standard minimum wage for federal government contractors will be at least $15 per hour; and beginning on January 1, 2023, the Secretary of Labor (Secretary) will determine the minimum wage on an annual basis, which will be published 90 days before that new minimum wage is to take effect.