Tag Archives: Small Business Administration

The Small Business Administration has allowed business owners and nonprofit organizations to submit applications for low-interest loans until Dec. 31 to help them manage financial challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Cincinnati, Ohio-based company Government Acquisitions Inc. has been accredited by the Small Business Administration under a program that seeks to provide economic benefits to government contractors from historically underutilized business zones.

Peter Villano, director of Microsoft Azure, has urged the Small Business Administration and the Department of Defense to reform current approaches that prevent smaller companies from increasing participation in government technology research and development programs.

Laura Klebanow, a senior manager at Maximus, wrote in a Nextgov guest piece published Wednesday that the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted government information technology modernization trends such as cloud migration and IT contracting in general.

Halfaker and Associates and &Partners, a minority-owned small business, have established a new joint venture – United Digital Partners - that will focus on delivering digital services to federal government clients.

LinQuest has agreed to guide nLogic in managerial, business development and technical matters as part of a partnership forged under the Small Business Administration's All Small Mentor-Protege program.

ViON has been selected to provide information technology infrastructure for the modernization of Small Business Administration systems used to process loan applications.

Laura Stanton of the General Services Administration’s Federal Acquisition Service said GSA plans to issue before the end of fiscal year 2020 the final request for proposals for the next iteration of the Streamlined Technology Acquisition Resource for Services governmentwide contract for information technology vendors certified under the Small Business Administration 8(a) program.

Systems Engineering Associates Corp. has won a five-year, $26.6M contract from the U.S. Navy to build, update and implement a tools for analyzing test data in extensible markup language formats.

Jesse Osborne, former lead for INCATech's geographic information system practice, has been promoted to chief technology officer of the Reston, Va.-based technology provider.

Jerry McGinn, executive director of the Center for Government Contracting at George Mason University’s School of Business, said federal contract spending related to COVID-19 has become more varied as agencies transition to managing the ancillary effects of the coronavirus pandemic, the Washington Business Journal reported Thursday.

Riva Solutions has added Becky Wright, Jeff Anderson and Lucas Wylie to its leadership team as the company moves to the next phase of its corporate growth plan.

A group of industry organizations is calling on the U.S. government to address startups’ need for support and clarify guidelines on a financial assistance program meant to aid small businesses impacted by the COVID-19 crisis.

Simba Chain has secured a five-year, $9.5M contract from the U.S. Navy to field a blockchain-based messaging and transaction suite for the Department of Defense.

Momentus has secured a contract of an undisclosed value from the U.S. Air Force to speed up developmental efforts for satellite upper stage technologies and in-space transportation services, Satnews Daily reported Saturday.