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Jan 14, 2025 | 
mondaq.com | Maria Alejandra del-Cerro |Jeremy Iloulian |Alexandra Barbee-Garrett
Key takeaway #1 The U.S. Department of Defense added at least 70 entitiesto its list of Chinese military companies, including battery makerContemporary Amperex Technology Co., Ltd. (CATL), drone maker AutelRobotics, chipmaker Changxin Memory Technologies Inc. (CXMT),WeChat's parent company Tencent, AI developer SenseTime Group,and shipping company COSCO Shipping, among dozens of others, at thesame time that it removed six entities from the list.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
today.westlaw.com | Adelicia R. Cliffe |Maria Alejandra del-Cerro |Jeremy Iloulian |Alexandra Barbee-Garrett
(January 24, 2025) - Attorneys at Crowell & Moring LLP discuss how the U.S. Defense Department's updates to its list of Chinese military companies may affect ancillary supply chains and U.S. federal contracts. The U.S. Department of Defense added at least 70 entities to its list of Chinese military companies, including battery maker Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Ltd. (CATL), drone maker Autel Robotics, chipmaker Changxin Memory Technologies Inc.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Stephanie Crawford |Michael E. Samuels |Alexandra Barbee-Garrett |Allison Skager
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Jul 15, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Stephanie Crawford |Alexandra Barbee-Garrett |Kate Beale |Lorraine M. Campos
On July 9, 2024, the CHIPS Research and Development Office
released a Notice of Intent (NOI) to announce a third
CHIPS Act Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO), which will be the
first focused on the CHIPS National Advanced Packaging
Manufacturing Program.
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Jul 3, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Peter Eyre |Christine Hawes |Alexandra Barbee-Garrett |Trina Fairley Barlow
On June 24, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Northern
District of Texas issued a nationwide preliminary injunction,
stopping the U.S. Department of Labor ("DOL") from
enforcing three key elements of regulations related to the
Davis-Bacon Act and Related Acts ("DBA" or
"Act"). The court order issued in Associated General
Contractors v. U.S. Department of Labor will provide
significant comfort and certainty to contractors that perform work
on federally funded construction projects.
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Senators Introduce Bill |Stephanie Crawford |Adelicia R. Cliffe |Alexandra Barbee-Garrett
On May 30, 2024, the Department of Defense (DoD) implementing Section 844 of the Fiscal Year
(FY) 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and Section 854
of the FY 2024 NDAA by amending DFARS 225.7018-2 and accompanying
DFARS clause 252.225-7052, which restrict DoD from acquiring
certain metals and magnets from "covered countries" of
Iran, North Korea, Russia, and China, to prohibit even earlier
inputs in the supply chain from occurring in these countries.
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
lexblog.com | Adelicia R. Cliffe |Stephanie Crawford |Alexandra Barbee-Garrett
Alexandra Barbee-Garrett is an associate in Crowell & Moring’s Washington, D.C. office, where she practices in the Government Contracts Group. Alex represents government contractors in both litigation and counseling matters. Her practice includes bid protests before the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
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Jan 4, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Adelicia R. Cliffe |Lorraine M. Campos |Maria Alejandra del-Cerro |Olivia Lynch |Robert J. Sneckenberg |Eric Ransom | +15 more
The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2024, signed into law on December 22, 2023, makes numerous changes to acquisition policy. Crowell & Moring’s Government Contracts Group discusses the most consequential changes for government contractors here.
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Sep 11, 2023 | 
mondaq.com | Adelicia R. Cliffe |William O'Reilly |Alexandra Barbee-Garrett
On August 23, 2023, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
released its final rule and notification of final guidance
addressing implementation of the Build America, Buy America Act
(BABA) provisions enacted with the Infrastructure Investment and
Jobs Act (IIJA), which requires the use of domestic iron, steel,
manufactured products, and construction materials in infrastructure
projects supported with federal financial assistance.
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Sep 8, 2023 | 
lexblog.com | Adelicia R. Cliffe |William O'Reilly |Alexandra Barbee-Garrett
On August 23, 2023, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released its final rule and notification of final guidance addressing implementation of the Build America, Buy America Act (BABA) provisions enacted with the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), which requires the use of domestic iron, steel, manufactured products, and construction materials in infrastructure projects supported with federal financial assistance.
