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GSA Announces “OneGov Strategy” to Further Administration’s Focus on Commercial Acquisitions and Consolidation of Purchasing

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WHAT: On April 29, 2025, the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) announced its OneGov Strategy for IT purchases. According to the announcement, “[t]he strategy calls for deeper, direct engagement with [Original...more

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Cybersecurity Executive Order—Key Implications for the Manufacturing Industry

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On January 16, 2025, President Joe Biden issued the “Executive Order on Strengthening and Promoting Innovation in the Nation’s Cybersecurity,” a comprehensive directive designed to address the growing complexity and...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

How Manufacturers Can Avoid Potential Pitfalls of AI-Based Recruitment

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The manufacturing industry is familiar with strategically integrating automation tools and technologies to address labor shortages and promote safety and productivity in the workplace. Manufacturers exploring the potential...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

The Informed Board - Winter 2024

The oversight obligations of boards continue to expand. Recent enforcement actions and new laws in areas such as cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and supply chains create new challenges for boards, as we explain in this...more

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Biden Executive Order Has Potential To Discourage U.S. Company Participation In Federal Research

A new Biden administration Executive Order proposes to enforce more rigorously U.S. manufacturing requirements attendant to federally funded inventions. While the aim of the Executive Order is to support domestic...more

Maynard Nexsen

Buy American Act Content Requirements Are Tightening Again, Are You Prepared?

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Numerous changes to the Buy American Act (“BAA”) have been proposed and implemented in recent years, with another one coming this week.  Beginning today, on October 25, 2022, the domestic content requirement for components in...more

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With Just a Little Ado: Significant Buy American Changes Are Coming Before Halloween

Regardless of whether they were eagerly anticipated or begrudgingly unavoidable, the changes promised to the Buy American Act (BAA) early last year have at last arrived, or at least are quickly approaching. On March 4, 2022,...more

Robinson+Cole Manufacturing Law Blog

Mandatory Vaccination and Safety Protocols for Federal Contractors

Last month, President Biden issued an Executive Order which effectively imposes several COVID-19 safety standards and protocols, including mandatory vaccination, upon certain federal contractors and subcontractors....more

PilieroMazza PLLC

Proposed Rule Seeks to Strengthen Impact of Buy American Act – 6 Key Takeaways

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On January 25, 2021, President Biden signed an Executive Order titled “Ensuring the Future Is Made in All of America by All of America’s Workers” (Executive Order).  As PilieroMazza previously explained, the Executive Order...more

Hogan Lovells

Proposed rule seeks to significantly strengthen U.S. Government “Buy American” requirements

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On 30 July 2021, the FAR Council published a proposed rule to significantly strengthen “Buy American” requirements applicable to goods sold to the U.S. Government. The proposed rule promotes the procurement of goods,...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

President Biden’s Latest Executive Order Aims to Bolster Critical Supply Chains

On February 24, 2021, President Biden signed the Executive Order (EO) on America’s Supply Chains, setting forth his administration’s strategy for developing resilient and secure supply chains for critical goods. Prompted by...more

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President Biden Acts on His ‘Buy American' Promise

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On Jan. 25, 2021, President Biden signed an executive order (EO), “Ensuring the Future Is Made in All of America by All of America’s Workers.” This EO initiates the implementation of Biden’s campaign promise to Buy American,...more

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Biden Administration Issues Executive Order 14005 Aimed at Strengthening Made in America Laws

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Executive Order 14005 - Not even one week into the Biden Administration’s tenure, Buy American rules are yet again taking center stage as a fundamental policy objective. On January 25, 2021, President Biden issued...more

McDermott Will & Emery

President Releases Executive Order Implementing “Buy American” Campaign

On January 25, 2021, US President Joe Biden signed an Executive Order, “Ensuring the Future Is Made in All of America by All of America’s Workers,” that implements the “Buy American” campaign to tighten existing “Made in...more

Baker Donelson

Buy American Act in 2021: Key Changes and Future Outlook

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On January 19, 2021, the domestic content restrictions of the Buy American Act (BAA) were significantly changed via a final rule (Final Rule) issued by the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Council. The Final Rule stemmed...more

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‘Made in America’ — President Biden Signs Executive Order to Boost U.S. Manufacturing, but to What Practical Effect?

On January 25, 2021, President Biden signed the “Executive Order on Ensuring the Future Is Made in All of America by All of America’s Workers” (Made in America EO) to leverage federal purchasing power to strengthen domestic...more

Alston & Bird

Biden Administration Seeking Big Changes to “Made in America” Requirements

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On January 25, 2021, President Biden signed an Executive Order, titled “Executive Order on Ensuring the Future Is Made in All of America by All of America’s Workers,” aimed at strengthening domestic manufacturing and...more

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President Biden Issues Order on “Made in America Laws”

On January 25, 2021, President Biden issued Executive Order (E.O.) 14005 to implement the President’s domestic sourcing and manufacturing policy agenda by tightening federal procurement and contracting requirements and...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Made in America – President Biden’s Executive Order on Buying (Even More?) American

On January 25, 2021, President Joe Biden signed an Executive Order on “Ensuring the Future is Made in All of America by All of America’s Workers,” laying his administration’s foundation for further strengthening Buy American...more

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Biden Leaves in Place Key Portions of Buy American Act Changes, Targets New Domestic End Product Test and Services

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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...more

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“Made in America” Executive Order Calls for Expansion and Increased Oversight of Domestic Sourcing Requirements for Government...

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President Biden signed an executive order (EO) on January 25, 2021, outlining his administration’s policy to increase procurement of U.S.-made products by expansion of domestic preferences for American-made goods and...more

Miles & Stockbridge P.C.

President Biden Signs Executive Order to Strengthen Buy American Act Provisions

On January 25, 2021, President Biden issued an Executive Order on Ensuring the Future Is Made in All of America by All of America’s Workers. The order is part of his “Build Back Better Recovery Plan” to strengthen American...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

How Much Will President Biden's Buy American Order Change Content Requirements? To Be Determined

Manufacturers are likely to face a tighter definition of American-made products and a stricter process for securing waivers as a result of President Joe Biden’s executive order this week. But the exact details will come from...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Biden Administration Issues Executive Order on Made in America Laws

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President Joe Biden signed on Jan. 25, 2021, executive order (EO) "Ensuring the Future Is Made in All of America by All of America's Workers," that directs a process for updating domestic preferences. This EO builds upon a...more

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What the Latest Executive Order Means for Federal Contractors and FDA

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The August 6, 2020, Executive Order on Ensuring Essential Medicines, Medical Countermeasures, and Critical Inputs Are Made in the United States directs the FDA and other federal agencies to take actions that could expand...more

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