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Defense Production Act Amended and Extended

By Covington Team on October 3, 2014
Posted in Government Contracts Regulatory Compliance, Procurement Policy

On September 26 President Obama signed a bill (H.R. 4809) amending and extending the Defense Production Act (“DPA”) through September 30, 2019.

The DPA (Pub.L. 81–774) was originally enacted in 1950 as part of a broad civil defense and war mobilization effort in response to the Cold War.  As discussed in a recent post,…

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