Small Business Administration
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Deloitte’s Greg Pellegrino and William D. Eggers provide examples of how agencies are improving citizen services.
November 29, 2016 -
The American Small Business League is pushing back on a court's decision to dismiss a case against the Small Business Administration and what the league calls “creative accounting” of federal contracting goals.
November 21, 2016 Barbara Carson, associate administrator for the Small Business Administration's Office of Veterans Business Development, joins host Derrick Dortch to discuss National Veterans Small Business Week and what the SBA is doing to help Veteran-owned small businesses. October 28, 2016
October 27, 2016-
Maria Roat is leaving after two years as chief technology officer at the Transportation Department.
September 27, 2016 -
The House Small Business Committee had a number of bones to pick with the Small Business Association’s HUBZone program, including the agency's decision to ignore a certain provision in the program's requirements.
September 09, 2016 -
The software world is being flooded with open source product. In fact, the federal government has an open-source-first policy. But maybe it's time to stop and think about sources of open source. Where does all that code originate? The software supply chain. That's something Derek Weeks, vice president and DevOps advocate at Sonatype, looks at carefully. He joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
August 19, 2016 -
For years, the mentor-protégé program at the Small Business Administration paired large, established businesses with small, disadvantaged companies to improve the little guys' chances of winning federal contracts. Now the SBA has finalized a major revision to the mentor-protégé rules. Ken Dodds, director of planning and liaison in the government contracting office at SBA, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin to explain what the changes mean.
August 19, 2016 -
The Small Business Administration's newest online tool promises to make it easier for businesses to apply for one of the agency's programs. The first version of the tool focuses on women-owned small businesses.
August 09, 2016 -
The Small Business Administration is asking a judge to toss out a lawsuit claiming it cooks the books when it comes to federal contracting goals.
August 05, 2016 -
An SBA program manager has been acknowledged for developing ways to recoup loses from failed small business investments.
July 29, 2016 -
Keith Bluestein, the acting chief information officer of the SBA, said the agency has been upgrading its network backbone as a precursor to being able to take advantage of new technologies such as the cloud.
June 16, 2016 -
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) wants to see updated agency implementation plans, as well as a plan to ensure the law continues its implementation through the election season.
May 31, 2016 -
What are the hot issues in small business contracting? Find out when contract attorney Steven Koprince joins host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center. May 30, 2016
May 26, 2016 -
Federal employees are one-step closer to a 1.6 percent pay raise in 2017 as the $21.7 billion Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill passed out of subcommittee.
May 25, 2016 -
Senators focused on the authorities of an inspector general during the hearing for the nomination of Peggy Gustafson to IG of the Commerce Department.
May 11, 2016