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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.
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.
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
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.
Senators focused on the authorities of an inspector general during the hearing for the nomination of Peggy Gustafson to IG of the Commerce Department.
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.
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.
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.
DHS promotes Danny Toler and brings on GSA veteran Emile Monett to work on the CDM program.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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