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Labcon North America | October 22, 2021

Labcon North America , the world's leading manufacturer of Earth Friendly® laboratory disposables, announced today a $59.3 million contract award from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) on behalf of and in coordination with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The contract is for the domestic manufacturing expansion of pipette tips and tubes as a part of the supply chain for COVID-19 diagnostic testing. Labcon's pipette tips and tubes, currently in produ...

Los Angeles Times | January 20, 2020

President Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron agreed to a truce in their dispute over digital taxes that will mean neither France nor the U.S. will impose punitive tariffs this year, a French diplomat said. “Great discussion with @realDonaldTrump on digital tax,” Macron said Monday in a tweet. “We will work together on a good agreement to avoid tariff escalation.” The respite defuses for now transatlantic tensions that had been building between Washington and Bruss...

Cybersecurity

CyberSheath Services International | May 20, 2022

Security, compliance, and IT roadblocks slow down federal contractors working to achieve compliance with Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC). The Defense Industrial Base (DIB) includes more than 220,000 companies, many of which have existing vendor relationships across the security, compliance, and IT CMMC requirements, but no single vendor solves every compliance challenge. CyberSheath, the largest CMMC managed service provider supporting the DIB, has launched a par...

Government Finance

Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago | June 30, 2022

The Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago (FHLBank Chicago) and the Government National Mortgage Association (Ginnie Mae) announced that total issuance under the Mortgage Partnership Finance® Program (MPF®) recently surpassed $3 billion in mortgage-backed securities (MBS). The MPF Government MBS product resulted from a partnership forged by FHLBank Chicago and Ginnie Mae to issue securities guaranteed by Ginnie Mae and backed by mortgages originated by Federal Home Loan Bank member financial...