Small Business Administration
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Alan Thompson, the CIO, and Justin Black, the CTO, of the House of Representatives were among the federal IT executives leaving their positions over the summer.
September 05, 2023 -
Government technology innovation is often the result of partnership with small business, especially when those innovations were proven in the commercial sector first. By recognizing the innovation small business can bring to the table, agencies can benefit from the disruption, instead of being disrupted by it.
September 04, 2023 -
The Biden administration is putting its next wave of customer experience improvement into focus, giving agencies new targets — and soon, new tools — to improve the way agencies deliver public-facing services across government.
August 30, 2023 -
When the Supreme Court ruled against race-based admissions at Harvard University, it opened the door to preference programs across the board. Recently a federal district court in Tennessee forced the Small Business Administration to suspend applications from small businesses to join the 8(a) program for disadvantaged companies.
August 16, 2023 -
A federal court rules that SBA can’t automatically assume a small business is socially and economically disadvantaged, based on the owner's race, when applying for the agency’s 8(a) business development program.
August 08, 2023 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Small Business Administration is putting a temporary pause on adding new applicants to its disadvantaged business program.
August 07, 2023 -
The Small Business Administration might be a small agency but it has outsize influence over the economy. The pandemic highlighted shortcomings in the SBA, including constituents' access to credit, customer service, and entrepreneurial development. That's according to a task force convened by The Bipartisan Policy Center. And it has a list of recommendations for reform.
July 24, 2023 -
The federal government is setting a new record for overall small business contract spending — with more than a quarter of federal contracting dollars last year going to small businesses.
July 18, 2023 -
Republicans on the Senate Small Business Committee are leading a bill that would reorganize a Small Business Administration mentorship and training program.
June 08, 2023 -
Watch out, a new small business subcontracting rule took effect Tuesday. It brings new limits on subcontracting on set-aside contracts. It harmonizes a confusing situation of a mismatch between Small Business Administration rules and the Federal Acquisition Regulation.
June 01, 2023 -
The total number of federal contracting dollars going to small businesses keeps going up year over year.
May 08, 2023 -
The top Republican on the Senate Small Business Committee is calling for higher standards for federal small business contracting goals.
May 04, 2023 -
16 of the 37 federal programs and governmentwide challenges on GAO’s 2023 high risk list improved, according to the latest biennial report the agency published Thursday.
April 20, 2023 -
The SBA decision not to pursue repayment on defaulted PPP and EIDL loans worth less than $100,000 is raising some oversight eyebrows.
April 20, 2023 -
Among declining employee engagement trends in the Partnership for Public Service’s Best Places to Work results, some agencies still managed to shine.
April 14, 2023