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    <item congress="119" measure-type="hr" measure-number="1955" measure-id="id119hr1955" originChamber="HOUSE" orig-publish-date="2025-03-06" update-date="2025-08-27">
        <title>Arsenal Workload Sustainment Act</title>
        <summary summary-id="id119hr1955v00" currentChamber="HOUSE" update-date="2025-08-27">
            <action-date>2025-03-06</action-date>
            <action-desc>Introduced in House</action-desc>
            <summary-text><![CDATA[<p><strong>Arsenal Workload Sustainment Act</strong></p><p>This bill requires the Department of Defense (DOD) to establish a five-year pilot program to give preference to any procurement action or solicitation with a non-public partner that uses a government-owned and operated arsenal of the Department of the Army in any type of contractual agreement with the government. Under the program, DOD must add 20% to the price of the bid of non-public partners that do not use a government-owned arsenal.</p><p>DOD must also give preference to non-public partners that utilize the Advanced Manufacturing Center of Excellence of the Army and ensure not less than 25% of the activities under the partnership are performed by DOD employees.</p>]]></summary-text>
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