Small Business Administration
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The American Small Business League filed a lawsuit May 3 calling on the Small Business Administration to stop what its president claims amounts to giving small business contracts to large firms and "inflating" numbers to meet compliance goals.
May 04, 2016 -
SBA Administrator Maria Contreras-Sweet says her agency is spearheading several programs that make startup easier for small businesses. SBA also announced its 2016 Small Business Person of the Year award, which went to woman-owned, LGBT coffee company in California.
May 02, 2016 -
Erin Andrew, assistant administrator of the Small Business Administration joins Women of Washington hosts Aileen Black and Gigi Schumm to talk about her personal journey and the work at SBA that is helping woman businesses like the program InnovateHER.
April 13, 2016 -
DHS promotes Danny Toler and brings on GSA veteran Emile Monett to work on the CDM program.
March 28, 2016 -
The Small Business Administration is trying to institutionalize accountability across the government for meeting small business contracting goals as well as answer critics by increasing the amount of “eligible” procurement dollars.
March 04, 2016 -
The Small Business Administration is reporting that agencies surpassed the 5 percent governmentwide goal of awarding contracts to women-owned small businesses in 2015 for the first time ever.
March 02, 2016 -
It was only back in September that the Government Accountability Office issued a set of eight recommendations for the Small Business Administration. That agency has weak internal controls, workforce planning and strategy development. It's suffered from a lack of management attention to them. SBA has made progress, but GAO is still concerned. Bill Shear, GAO's director of financial markets and community investment issues, filled in Federal Drive with Tom Temin on the latest.
January 13, 2016 -
SBA Administrator Maria Contreras-Sweet said she's also reviewing candidates for the agency's chief information officer position but gave no indication that she had selected a person or when that position might get filled. The agency's former CIO, Renee Macklin, left SBA over the summer.
January 08, 2016 -
John Shoraka, associate administrator of Government Contracting and Business Development at the U.S. Small Business Administration, talks small business contracting with host Derrick Dortch. November 20, 2015
November 18, 2015 -
Every federal agency has its own management challenges, but the Small Business Administration has a lot of long-standing ones. And it still hasn't resolved most of them. That's according to the Government Accountability Office. Bill Shear is the director of financial markets and community issues at GAO and joins the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more on the latest audit.
November 03, 2015 -
A new data pilot from the Small Business Administration is helping the agency keep better track of what grants it makes and where the money goes. It's one small step forward as the SBA and other agencies implement their DATA Act plans.
October 23, 2015 -
The Boots-to-Business program has the goal of keeping service members on their feet once they leave the military. Jointly operated by the Defense Department and the Small Business Administration, Boots-to-Business has had a few changes. Barbara Carson, the acting associate administrator in the Office of Veteran Business Development at the SBA, joins the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with an update.
September 28, 2015 -
The Treasury Department is looking for more feedback on USASpending.gov, an online portal that documents agencies' financial information. It's one step Treasury is taking to help agencies implement the DATA Act.
September 24, 2015 -
On this edition of Columbia Technology Partners Ready To Prime, Allen Scott sits down with the Regional Director Natalia Olson-Urtecho and District Director Antonio Doss of the Small Business Administration.
September 22, 2015 -
The federal technology community is seeing a lot of key senior executives switch roles or leave government, including new officials in charge of data analytics at GSA and EPA.
September 08, 2015