Small Business Administration

How the Patent and Trademark office is preparing for its next 5 years

Judging by the pace of patent applications, intellectual property is expanding fast in the United States and around the world. Without innovation, it’s…

Agency Oversight

SBA takes over certifying vet-owned small business from VA as part of CX overhaul

Contracting

A federal court decides when a contractor size rule actually takes effect

Contracting

Small businesses get some inflation relief from the SBA

Federal Newscast

OPM removes two federal skills gaps from its high-risk list, but three positions remain

Workforce

POGO

The scope of pandemic relief fraud keeps on ballooning

Agency Oversight

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How two letters of the alphabet blew an award protest into a court case

Contracts/Awards

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Will agencies get a 2023 budget in December? Don’t hold your breath

Contracting

FILE - With the Founders Library in the background, a young man reads on Howard University campus July 6, 2021, in Washington. For millions of Americans, President Joe Biden’s student loan cancellation offers a life-changing chance to escape the burden of debt. But for future generations of students, it doesn't fix the underlying reason for the crisis: the rising cost of college. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Lawmakers push for a waiver extension of student loan debt relief for government employees

Federal Newscast

Reversing the slow, painful death of commercial item contracting

Commentary

SBA OIG concerned about potential fraud in $1.3 billion of COVID relief funds

Agency Oversight

Meet the guy who oversaw the recovery of more than a billion dollars of stolen pandemic relief

This Secret Service agent led a nationwide criminal investigation that so far has clawed back more than a billion dollars anyway, awarded to frauds under…

Congress

FILE - Attorney General Merrick Garland, looks at federal prosecutor Kevin Chambers, right, after appointing him to be the Justice Department's chief pandemic fraud prosecutor, during a meeting of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Fraud Enforcement Task Force at the Justice Department, March 10, 2022 in Washington. The U.S. Secret Service recovered $286 million in fraudulently obtained pandemic funds to the Small Business Administration, Friday, Aug. 26. (Kevin Lamarque/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Secret Service recovers $286M in stolen pandemic loans

The U.S. Secret Service said Friday that it has recovered $286 million in fraudulently obtained pandemic loans and is returning the money to the Small…

Workforce

SBA shuffles its CIO chair once again

Reporter's Notebook

The DoD deputy chief information security officer and the Justice Department’s ATF CISO also announced they were leaving federal service.