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*Oklahoma Editor Tipoffs Newsletter for Tuesday October 29, 2024 ( 8 items )  

Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind Or Severely Disabled Releases Public Communication From Dale Rogers Training Center
WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 -- The Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind Or Severely Disabled has released the following public communication dated Oct. 22, 2024, from Dale Rogers Training Center Inc., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: * * * RE: Request for Information on Direct and Indirect Labor, Docket No. CPPBSD-2024-0010 * * * Dale Rogers Training Center, Inc. (DRTC) is grateful for the opportunity to comment on the Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled's (ope  more

FAA Releases Public Communication From Aviation Technician Education Council
WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration has released the following public communication dated Oct. 21, 2024, from the Aviation Technician Education Council, Jenks, Oklahoma: * * * To: Docket Operations, M-30 U.S. Department of Transportation 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE Room W12-140, West Building Ground Floor Washington, DC 20590-0001 Re: Comments to Draft Order 8100.15C, Organization Designation Authorization Procedures Docket ID: FAA-2  more

House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Green Issues Commentary to RealClearPolitics on Public Safety Fallout of Biden & Harris Open-Borders Policies
WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 -- Rep. Mark Green, R-Tennessee, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, issued the following commentary to the RealClearPolitics on Oct. 28, 2024: * * * This weekend, House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark E. Green, MD (R-TN) published an op-ed in RealClearPolitics, in which he outlined how the open-borders, anti-enforcement policies of the Biden-Harris administration not only sparked the worst border crisis in American history, but have led to disas  more

Lankford's Legislation to Save Taxpayer Dollars by Reusing Excess Federal Property Signed into Law
WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: OKLAHOMA CITY, OK The Reuse Excess Property Act introduced by Senators James Lankford (R-OK) and Gary Peters (D-MI) has been signed into law. The bill will hold agencies more accountable to the public on how they reuse excess personal property. "This is not that hard. Use the stuff you already have before you buy more stuff. When federal agencies just buy more, before they use what we already have, it sh  more

LONG WAVE Awarded Up to $12.5 Million Contract
WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 -- The U.S. Navy issued the following high-value contract information through the Pentagon dated Oct. 23, 2024: LONG WAVE INC., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (N66001-25-D-0006), was awarded an estimated $12,478,211 cost-plus-fixed-fee, cost-only, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, multiple award contract for the development of technology in, and demonstration of, High-Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse hardening processes, testing, and hardness maintenance and hardness surveilla  more

RELIANCE CONSTRUCTION Awarded Up to $12.5 Million Contract
WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 -- The U.S. Navy issued the following high-value contract information through the Pentagon dated Oct. 23, 2024: RELIANCE CONSTRUCTION CO., Cary, North Carolina (N66001-25-D-0007), was awarded an estimated $12,478,211 cost-plus-fixed-fee, cost-only, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, multiple award contract for the development of technology in, and demonstration of, High-Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse hardening processes, testing, and hardness maintenance and hardness s  more

Sen. Paul Leads Letter Requesting Information on Arrest of Afghan Nationals Allegedly Plotting Election Day Terrorist Attack
WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 -- Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, along with Senators James Lankford (R-OK), Rick Scott (R-FL), and Roger Marshall (R-KS), sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas requesting information concerning the recen  more

USGS awards $2.5 million to state geological surveys for mine waste projects
WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Geological Survey issued the following news release: The data collection will be conducted through the USGS Earth Mapping Resources Initiative (Earth MRI), a partnership between the USGS and state geological surveys that is revolutionizing our understanding of the nation's geology and domestic mineral resources, both in the ground and in mine waste. Since 2021, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) has advanced scientific inn  more