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Two crossed lines that form an X . It indicates a way to close an interaction, or dismiss a notification. John Sherman, acting Chief Information Officer of the Department of Defense, is expected to support using multiple cloud providers like Amazon and Microsoft for the department. U.S. Department of Defense This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
DOD sent a memo to Congress saying the JEDI cloud with Microsoft could be pulled into question as Amazon legal battle drags on.
If it s canceled, DOD could issue a new award to multiple clouds, including Amazon, one analyst said.
By Stephanie Kanowitz
Jan 29, 2021
When the National Defense Authorization Act required the IRS procurement office to insert telecommunications security language into all its contracts, staff used a bot to accomplish in three days what would have taken a year.
“As we looked at the number of contracts that had that criteria, it was 1,466 active contracts,” IRS Chief Procurement Officer Shanna Webbers said. “It would have taken us almost up to a year to modify all of those contracts.”
Called the DATA Act Bot, the tool focuses on improving transparency and accuracy of data in the Federal Procurement Data System and on improving compliance with its namesake, the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act of 2014. The bot, which incorporates artificial intelligence, natural language processing, optical character recognition and robotic process automation, is one of three that the office uses to streamline operations.
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President Joe Biden issued on January 25 an Executive Order on Ensuring the Future Is Made in All of America by All of America s Workers (EO). This EO leaves in place key portions of the prior administration’s July 15, 2019 EO 13881 (Maximizing Use of American-Made Goods, Products, and Materials) and related implementing regulations, orders a sweeping review of multiple domestic preference rules, including proposing standards for domestic products, and establishes a central Office of Management and Budget (OMB) authority to approve federal agency waiver requests of Made in America requirements.
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The Biden Administration’s ‘Made in America’ Executive Order: A Move to Strengthen U.S. Preferences in Federal Spending Friday, January 29, 2021
On Jan. 25, 2021, President Biden issued an Executive Order (E.O.) entitled “Ensuring the Future is Made in All of America by All of America’s Workers.”
1 This E.O. seeks to bolster American industry by strengthening policies and practices related to financial federal assistance awards and federal procurements that require or provide a preference for the purchase or acquisition of goods, products, or materials produced in the United States. While this E.O. has limited immediate impact, agency implementation of the E.O. over the coming months may have a significant effect on some federal procurements and federal financial assistance awards.
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On January 25, 2021, President Biden issued a sweeping Executive Order titled “Ensuring the Future Is Made in All of America by All of America’s Workers” (Order), which is intended to be the first step toward fulfilling his campaign promise to commit to American businesses by strengthening domestic preference rules in government procurement. The Order states the administration’s policy that the US government should “use terms and conditions of Federal financial assistance awards and Federal procurements to maximize the use of goods, products, and materials produced in, and services offered in, the United States.” While this is not a novel policy objective indeed, the Trump administration articulated similar goals the Order introduces certain dramatic steps in furtherance of that objective that may ultimately have significant implications for contractors.