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.
Read More »Government Acquisitions Obtains SBA HUBZone Program Certification; Jay Lambke Quoted
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.
Read More »Microsoft’s Peter Villano: SBA, DoD Should Reduce Barriers to Small Biz Participation in Gov’t Tech Programs
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.
Read More »Maximus’ Laura Klebanow: Momentum Builds for IT Modernization at Agencies
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.
Read More »Halfaker and Associates, &Partners Form New Joint Venture; Dawn Halfaker Quoted
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.
Read More »LinQuest, nLogic Enter Into Small Biz Mentor-Protege Relationship; Timothy Dills Quoted
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.
Read More »ViON to Help Update SBA Loan IT Platforms; Tom Frana Quoted
ViON has been selected to provide information technology infrastructure for the modernization of Small Business Administration systems used to process loan applications.
Read More »Laura Stanton: GSA Eyes Final RFP Release for 8(a) STARS III IT Contract This Fiscal Year
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.
Read More »SEA Corp. to Help Navy Deploy XML Test Data Analysis Tool
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.
Read More »Jesse Osborne Promoted to INCATech CTO
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.
Read More »Jerry McGinn on Federal Contract Spending in Response to COVID-19
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.
Read More »Riva Solutions Appoints Becky Wright, Jeff Anderson, Lucas Wylie to Leadership Roles
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.
Read More »Industry Groups Urge SBA to Clarify Startup Eligibility Rules for Loan Program
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.
Read More »Simba Chain Lands Navy SBIR Contract to Field Blockchain Messaging Suite
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.
Read More »Momentus to Accelerate Upper Stage, Space Transport Tech Dev’t Under Air Force SBIR Contract
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.
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