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The United States Government sets aside contract benefits for companies considered to be "Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business" (SDVOSB). [1]The most notable of these contracts are the Veterans Government-wide Acquisition Contracts (VETS-GWAC) [2] issued in accordance with Executive Order 13360, [3] which is designed to strengthen federal contracting opportunities for SDVO firms.
Stop-loss was created by the United States Congress after the Vietnam War. Its use is founded on Title 10, United States Code, Section 12305(a) which states in part: "... the President may suspend any provision of law relating to promotion, retirement, or separation applicable to any member of the armed forces who the President determines is essential to the national security of the United ...
In United States agricultural policy, the set-aside program (still in use in some areas today) was a program under which farmers were required to set aside a certain percentage of their total planted acreage and devote this land to approved conservation uses (such as grasses, legumes, and small grain which is not allowed to mature) in order to be eligible for nonrecourse loans and deficiency ...
A dozen senators led a last-ditch effort to strike the measure that would ban the military's health insurance program from funding gender affirming care for the children of servicemembers.
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren is proposing legislation that would make defense contractors give the U.S. military a "right to repair" its equipment, and require the Department of Defense to ...
Congress set the first debt limit of $45 billion in 1939, and has had to raise that limit 103 times since, as spending has consistently outrun tax revenue. ... All military personnel would remain ...
A military training area, training area (Australia, Ireland, and the United Kingdom) or training centre (Canada) is land set aside specifically to enable military forces to train and exercise for combat. Training areas are usually out of bounds to the general public, but some have limited access when not in use.
The United States has provided more than half of all military aid to Ukraine, and has set aside $175 billion to help the country. [5] Most of this money stays in the US economy and supports US industries, subsidizing the production of weapons and military equipment in at least 71 American cities.