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Cybsersecurity, customer service, even deep space exploration are on the list of federal agencies' Performance.gov goals in fiscal 2016-17.
The FAR Council and lawmakers are updating federal procurement regulations to address long-standing concerns about veterans, prompt payment and privacy training.
The Small Business Administration issued a memo in October stating all task and delivery orders between $3,000 and $150,000 under the GSA schedule are to be set-aside for small businesses if two or more are qualified.
Federal contracting officials advised women small business owners that if they want to succeed in government business, it's all about being professional and being themselves.
Deloitte’s Greg Pellegrino and William D. Eggers provide examples of how agencies are improving citizen services.
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.
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
Maria Roat is leaving after two years as chief technology officer at the Transportation Department.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
An SBA program manager has been acknowledged for developing ways to recoup loses from failed small business investments.