Set-Aside Alert news analysis:

Carranza confirmed for SBA

Priorities to include cybersecurity, helping underserved

     The Small Business Administration has a new administrator, Jovita Carranza, who was confirmed by the Senate on Jan. 7.

      The Senate voted 88-5 to approve the nomination, filling the SBA's top leadership post that had been vacant for more than eight months since the departure of Linda McMahon in April, 2019.

      Carranza, age 70, most recently served as U.S. Treasurer, and previously was the deputy administrator of the SBA under President George W. Bush. She also had a long career in the private sector including senior roles at UPS.

      Carranza outlined some of her priorities for the SBA in a December hearing of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: ...more....