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Streamlining naturalization applications with Amazon Bedrock

AWS Public Sector

LLMs also promote consistency in application evaluation, removing potential bias, and provide scalability to handle large volumes of applications, even with surges in numbers like those seen during the COVID-19 pandemic. Proof of residency for three years, evaluated using a scoring system. import json import os import boto3 from boto3.dynamodb.conditions

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Back to Basics: The Buy American Act

SmallGovCon

Price Preference For civilian agencies , if the contractor with the lowest priced domestic end product is a large business, then the agency will add a price evaluation penalty to the offeror with the lowest priced foreign end product of 20%. That 65% will become 75% in 2029.

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The FY 2024 National Defense Authorization Act: Key Provisions Government Contractors Should Know

Government Contracts Legal Forum

The authority for this pilot program will sunset on January 1, 2029. Section 1522 requires the executive agent of the DoD-wide cyber data products and services procurement program to evaluate emerging cyber technologies, specifically AI-enabled security tools, for efficacy and applicability to the requirements of DoD.

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Friday Flash 04/26/2024

The Coalition for Government Procurement

NITAAC stated that orders placed on CIO-SP3 can have a five-year term, so task orders can potentially run through October 29, 2029. CIO-SP3, which was set to expire this month, has now been extended through October 29, 2024. NITAAC began work on the extension in February. The 17 protests filed at the U.S.

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Friday Flash 3/08/2024

The Coalition for Government Procurement

Like the FAR rule, the new DFARS rule: Modifies the definition of domestic end product, qualifying country end product, and domestic construction material by increasing the domestic content threshold to 65 percent for calendar years 2024 through 2028, and to 75 percent beginning in calendar year 2029. GAO denied the protests. [1]

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Key Domestic Sourcing Provisions of the House and Senate Versions of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)

Inside Government Contracts

Even shipbuilding contracts related to research, development, testing, and evaluation activities would be required to meet these thresholds. That percentage would increase on a graduated scale until January 1, 2029, at which time at least 75% of each component article, material, or supply cost must be attributable to U.S.

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The best thing about other-transaction-authority acquisitions may not be there after all

Federal News Network

It’s a challenge that we’ve been thinking about for decades and decades, and now push is coming to shove, where Congress says you have to have something that is deployed by 2029 which is not gonna happen, by the way. There’s no way but they at least have to make progress on it.