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NNSA Seeking N95 Respirators for Workforce; Chinese-made Equivalents Okay

Monday, April 27th, 2020

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NNSA Seeking N95 Respirators for Workforce; Chinese-made Equivalents Okay

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) gave a small business in Georgia a roughly $240,000 fixed-price contract to provide almost a quarter-million, China-made N95-style respirator masks for its contractor and federal employees, the agency announced Monday. The semi-autonomous Department of Energy nuclear-weapons agency planned to order 186,000 would be for contractors at various NNSA and DoE sites, and 39,000 would be for federal employees, according to a procurement note posted online. American Dream Builders of Douglasville, Ga., won the contract.…

Pentagon

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Congress

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Army

Army Taking ‘More Refined’ Approach On Push For Right To Repair Reforms, Obadal Says

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Unmanned Systems

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