Vets who are not service-disabled get shrinking share of US contracts
While service-disabled veterans have experienced a surge in federal contracting in recent years, that’s not the case for veterans without service-related disabilities.
Government contract awards to small firms owned by service-disabled veterans more than tripled, rising sharply from $3.8 billion to $13.5 billion, from fiscal 2007 to fiscal 2014, according to new research by Set-Aside Alert.
But the trend for small firms owned by veterans without service-connected disabilities was downward. .......