Sentences with phrase «federal government awarded»

French - speaking Indians who live deep in Louisiana bayou, some 50 miles south of New Orleans, became the United States» first official climate refugees last week when the federal government awarded them $ 48 million to relocate.

In 2012, the federal government awarded them a contract to service federal student loans.

The federal government awarded $ 700 million to the New York school system with the belief that an evaluation system would be put into place.

I've worked several Federal Government Award contracts, including FTS2001, Networx's WITS3, Verizon Communications as well as Base Communications Liaison specializing in Special Disaster Recovery projects.

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German shipbuilder Lurssen has awarded Civmec a key contract for the Royal Australian Navy offshore patrol vessels, which are being built as part of a $ 3.6 billion federal government program.

Henderson - based Austal has secured a $ 29.7 million contract to build two additional Pacific patrol boats on top of an existing $ 305 million federal government program, days after German shipbuilder Lurssen awarded Civmec a key contract for the Royal Australian Navy offshore patrol vessels.

The new judging criteria for the federal skilled worker program will award more points to younger immigrants and changes the way the government looks at work experience and education.

Fremantle - based firm Carnegie Wave Energy has been awarded an $ 11 million federal government grant to support its next CETO power wave project.

The federal government has responded to Andrew Forrest's Creating Parity review by announcing plans to award 3 per cent of all supply contracts, worth an estimated $ 135 million per year, to indigenous businesses.

The federal government's official goal is to award 5 percent of federal contracts to women - owned business, but it has struggled to consistently reach that mark.

Arafura Resources Ltd has been awarded a $ 3.3 million federal government grant for its NT rare earths - uranium project while biotechnology company Imugene Ltd has secured an $ 880,000 grant to produce and test bird flu vaccines on chickens.

The New York Times covered the exciting news that the federal government has met its goal of awarding 5 percent of money spent on contractors to women - owned businesses.

Last January, President Barack Obama's administration awarded $ 48 million to relocate a small Louisiana town sinking into the Gulf of Mexico, the first such project funded by the federal government.

A grant or an award for economic development from a Federal, State or local government will qualify.

In the US, the Women Owned Business Contracting Program required the Federal Government to award 5 % of its prime contracts to women - owned businesses as early as 1994.

In order to conduct business with the U.S. Government, your company must register at both the System for Award Management and the Federal Business Opportunities (FBO) websites.

Royal LePage says the award comes with a «generous donation» from the federal government to the foundation.

Unlike many other scholarships, the education award is considered taxable as income by the federal government.

The Health and Human Services Department distributed $ 27 million for the federal government's Pregnancy Assistance Fund on Wednesday, the department said in a press release, awarding grants to 17 states and 13 American Indian tribes

These feel - good programs cost the federal government very little; total funding for the Healthier US Schools awards, which are supposed to go to 1250 schools, is just $ 2.5 million.

Several park districts in southern Cook and Will counties have been awarded more than $ 1.1 million in grants by the state and federal government, according to the Illinois Department of Conservation.

The federal government has awarded nearly a dozen commercial offshore wind leases, including locations off the coasts of Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Maryland and Virginia.

He said the federal government is planning to conduct a licensing round for the award of oilfields in inland basins to companies to prospect for crude oil,

Shuaib, an award - winning writer, was offered automatic employment by Delta State and Federal Government after winning State and Presidential Awards of the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) scheme in 1993.

The federal government has awarded $ 3.4 million in grants to help Erie County launch a tougher countywide fight against lead poisoning.

As New York nears the midpoint of its five - year, $ 8 billion project to reform Medicaid, hundreds of millions of dollars awarded from the federal government have yet to be spent, and that could negatively impact the Cuomo administration's effort to overhaul the system.

(g) The $ 470 million contract awarded to ZTE, (a Chinese company) in 2009 by the federal government for the construction of CCTV cameras in Abuja and Lagos has been abandoned.

It will be recalled that in 2013 a Federal High Court sitting in Asaba, presided over by Justice Buba declared the bombardment of Gbaramatu Kingdom in 2009 by the Joint Task Force as unconstitutional and awarded N100 billion against the Federal Government for the destruction of over 53 communities in the kingdom.

The Federal Government also awarded contracts for various road projects across the country, chief of which were the reconstruction of the Benin - Ore section of the Benin - Ore - Sagamu - Lagos road and the Kano - Maiduguri dualisation.

A House of Reps member representing Tambuwal / Kebbe Federal constituency, Hon. Abdussamad Dasuki has launched the award of scholarships to 120 students in Sanyinna town of Tambuwal local government of Sokoto state.

The EFCC had commenced investigating Azibaola last year sequel to a list sent to the commission by a committee set up by the Federal Government to probe contracts awarded by the ONSA from 2011 to 2015 which indicted more than 300 companies and prominent citizens, including serving and retired officers of the Nigerian Armed Forces.

DAILY POST learnt that a contract to construct the Ibadan - Lagos light rail was awarded to the Chinese Construction firm (CCECC) by the Federal Government.

After 22 years on the municipal payroll — and an Ethics in Government award — Morales was abruptly fired (and removed under armed guard) just hours after the mayor was grilled by federal prosecutors.

The military practically abolished Nigeria's federal system in favour of a unitary, distributive economy in which we all shared proceeds of oil; they created more and more states eroding sub-national economic viability; they nationalized and indigenized banks and declared that government would hold the «commanding heights» of our economy, marginalizing investment and the private sector brought in «big government»; they implemented «Udoji awards» and other elements of oil and FX subsidies that Nigeria battles to overcome today; and the about - to - depart government of Murtala / Obasanjo took the first $ 1billion jumbo loan that set Nigeria on the path to debt peonage!

The city is hoping the federal government will award a grant to pay for half of the work.

Large Newspaper — Circulation of 150,000 or more Gold Award: Ryan McNeill, Deborah J. Nelson, Yasmeen Abutaleb and the Reuters team Reuters «The Uncounted» series Sept. 7, Nov. 18, Dec. 15 and Dec. 22, 2016 Fifteen years after the U.S. government declared antibiotic - resistant infections to be a grave threat to public health, a Reuters investigation, «The Uncounted,» found that infection - related deaths are going uncounted because federal and state agencies are doing a poor job of tracking them.

Since the 1940s, when the U.S. government began to invest seriously in civilian research, the work has been done largely at the nation's universities and paid for through competitive, temporary grants awarded to individual professors by federal funding agencies such as the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.

In each plan, the centerpiece was a «targeted deployment» approach: Rather than offer the same incentives nationwide, the government would award federal funds to the regions that come up with the best blueprints for rolling out tens of thousands of plug - in cars.

Promoted by these developments, the TUD has been awarded the Dresden International Graduate School for Biomedicine and Bioengineering (DIGS - BB, www.digs-bb.de) in 2006, funded by the Excellence Initiative by the German federal and state governments to promote science and research at German Universities.

He is the recipient of the Arthur S. Flemming Award (for outstanding achievement federal government employees, the American Astronomical Society «s Helen B. Warner Prize (for significant contributions to observational or theoretical astronomy), the Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal from NASA, and the National Medal of Technology and Innovation.

In 2013, over 5 billion dollars were awarded by the National Science Foundation to support research and education [3]; the National Institutes of Health dispenses even more money for health - related research and clinical studies Since everyone benefits from progress in science, the US federal government should be praised for financially supporting so many university researchers and research projects.

Senator Rand Paul, a Republican presidential hopeful, recently wrote in an op - ed that «the federal government has awarded taxpayer dollars toward research that few Americans would consider to be in the national interest.»

Given the results of these three studies, one which was overseen by the U.S. Department of Education and two which were recognized with the Department's highest award for rigor, we might expect President Obama to receive a swift response regarding his call for the federal government to search for programs that boost educational outcomes for African American men.

What kind of excellence is so important that it compels the federal government to give a Blue Ribbon award - the highest honor that the nation bestows on a school - to the mediocre school while overlooking the exemplary one?

The National Blue Ribbon Schools award given out each year by the federal government is considered among the highest honors a school can achieve, and of the 335 Blue Ribbon schools in 2015, only one was from LA Unified.

The best indicator of the imperfections of NCLB is the large number of states that the federal government has awarded waivers from NCLB requirements in exchange for planning and pursuing new policies, such as enhanced teacher evaluation systems.

«Spending time planning lessons with teachers in the classroom, there's no substituting for that kind of work,» said Rosen, who recently received a Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching, the highest award given by the federal government to math and science teacAward for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching, the highest award given by the federal government to math and science teacaward given by the federal government to math and science teachers.

«The group's proposed reforms correspond to criteria the federal government will use to award additional education stimulus dollars on a competitive basis starting this fall.»

SACRAMENTO, California (August 24, 2010) Jed Wallace, President and CEO of the California Charter Schools Association (CCSA), released the following statement today regarding the federal government's decision not to award California a Race to the Top school - reform grant.

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