SBA Size Standards Will Be Employment-Based
The Small Business Administration is drafting regulations that would base all size standards on the number of employees rather than revenues, said Gary Jackson, assistant administrator for size standards.
Homeland Security Department to Begin Certifying Anti-Terrorism Technologies
The Department of Homeland Security plans to begin certifying Qualified Anti-Terrorism Technologies later this month, giving those products and services limited protection from liability lawsuits.
Chenega Wins $500 Million Award
Chenega Technology Services Corp., an 8(a) tribally-owned Alaskan Native Corporation, has won the largest contract award ever awarded by a civilian agency to an 8(a) contractor or small disadvantaged business: a 10-year, $500 million deal to maintain and repair inspection equipment at U.S. ports of entry.
Study: Contractor Workforce is Growing Faster Than Federal Jobs
Federal contracts generated more than 5 million jobs in 2002, according to an estimate by Eagle Eye Publishers for the Brookings Institution’s Center for Public Service.
House Votes to Scrap New Competitive Sourcing Rules
In the face of a veto threat, the House voted Sept. 9 to kill the Bush administration’s revised competitive sourcing rules.
Leaving OMB, Styles Claims Successes, But Warns of Bias Against Small Business
Stepping down after more than two years as the Bush administration’s procurement policy chief, Angela Styles says the attack on unnecessary contract bundling is “one of our great successes.”
NASA Names Award-Winning Contractors
NASA has named Zin Technologies Inc., as its Minority Contractor of the Year, Arcata Associates Inc. as its Minority Subcontractor of the Year, and Analytical Services Inc. as its Women-Owned Business of the Year.
Startup Tech Firm Grows on R&D Work
The electronic ears of military and civilian intelligence agencies capture and record millions of words in dozens of languages every day, but those agencies don’t have enough human ears to listen and translate all of it.
Top 8(a) Firms in IT Are Ranked
Eight Native American and Alaskan Native companies are among the 25 largest 8(a) information technology contractors for the federal government, according to the trade newspaper Washington Technology.
SBA Hall of Fame Honors the No-Longer-Small
The Small Business Administration is inducting 23 companies that started small and grew to be big into its Golden Anniversary Hall of Fame.
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