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By Geoff Fein Small businesses looking to tap into Navy programs need to focus their ideas on the service's current concerns, otherwise they are unlikely to get an audience with […]

Small businesses won prime contracts with the Pentagon in FY '03 worth $42 billion, up 21 percent from the $33.3 billion they won the previous fiscal year, according to DoD. […]

By Calvin Biesecker The U.S. government on Monday issued new acquisition guidelines aimed at increasing opportunities for small firms trying to get government contracts as part of the Bush administration's […]

Naval Air Systems Command on Monday selected seven contractors to bid for up to $3 billion worth of work for the full-range of technology-based training product planning, analysis, design, development, […]

A Senate bill approved last week would lower the dollar threshold whereby the Pentagon must justify the combination of two or more previously separate contracts into a larger contract, a […]

Pentagon prime contracts to small businesses in terms of overall dollars and as a percentage of U.S. defense spending increased in the last fiscal year, DoD said last week. On […]

By Calvin Biesecker The Pentagon's small business office is hoping to improve the success of smaller companies in doing business with the U.S. military by consistently involving service and agency […]

By Calvin Biesecker The Pentagon's small business office will resume the solicitation process for a round of small business research proposals that were originally due in mid-January after some companies […]

By Calvin Biesecker The Small Business Administration (SBA) and DoD have completed the integration of two contractor databases that will make it easier for small companies to do business with […]

By Hunter Keeter DoD's efforts to include small business in its acquisition programs have not been very successful, especially with regard to common indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contracts, according to […]

The federal government should not shy away from working with small business for research work, the General Accounting Office says in a new report. The GAO examined an ongoing program, […]

DoD will be required to make public information on specific volume levels of contracts awarded to minority-owned firms and small businesses, a federal court ruled Friday. The decision is a […]

With 8.5 percent of its contracting budget going to small and disadvantaged businesses (SDB) in FY '93, NASA achieved its congressionally-mandated goal of 8 percent one year early, Administrator Daniel […]

The Army in FY '96 awarded more money and more contracts to small businesses than ever before under the DoD Small Business program, the service said yesterday. Small businesses received […]

The General Accounting Office has directed the Air Force to stop- work on recently awarded command, control, communication, computers, and intelligence (C4I) contract, after a protest was lodged with the […]

NASA selected 30 research proposals yesterday for immediate negotiation of phase I contracts as part of the 1995 Small Business Technology Transfer Pilot program. Each of the 30 proposals will […]

Small Disadvantaged Businesses garnered 5 percent of DoD's subcontracts in FY '94, achieving a goal set by the FY '87 defense budget bill. Also in FY '94, NASA awarded 9.9 […]

NASA space station officials are looking to small firms to conduct a 45-day review of life support technologies and protective coatings that could be worth up to $500,OOO of business […]

The Clinton administration yesterday awarded 50 contracts worth $190 million as part of its Technology Reinvestment Project (TRP) to spur the development of "dual-use" technologies. The 50 projects represent the […]

* SDIO NEEDS SUPPORT FOR TEST DIRECTORATE. The Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO) plans to conduct a competition between small disadvantaged businesses to provide systems, engineering and technical assistance support […]

MINORITY SET-ASIDES HURT SMALL BUSINESS--DOD. Over the past three years, as the percentage of DoD prime contract awards going to minority-owned businesses has increased, the percentage of awards to small […]