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SBA starting new lending program for veterans
The Small Business Administration announced Tuesday it has lined up pledges from more than 120 banks to increase lending to veterans.
Tags: loans , Veterans Affairs
Strategic sourcing at DHS
Nick Nayak, Kevin Boshears, and Peter Ko from the Department of Homeland Security will discuss how strategic sourcing has helped the agency achieve its small business goals.
May 14, 2013
Tags: acquisition , contracting , DHS , Nick Nayak , Kevin Boshears , small and disadvantaged business , small business , strategic sourcing , strategic sourcing program office , Roger Waldron , Off the Shelf
SBA relying on shared services to improve cyber posture
Chase Garwood, the SBA acting CIO, said the agency is working with DHS and Justice to improve the security of its internal and external customer-facing systems.
Tags: Chase Garwood , technology , cybersecurity , Microsoft , data management , shared services , mobile computing , Ask the CIO , Jason Miller
SBA head: Agency will avoid major blow from cuts
Tags: sequestration , Karen Mills
SBA head Karen Mills resigning
Karen Mills, the head of the Small Business Administration, is resigning. Mills says she will stay on until a successor is confirmed.
Tags: people , Karen Mills , Barack Obama
New SBA union contract emphasizes flexible work policies
The Small Business Administration and the American Federation of Government Employees inked a new three-year deal Thursday, extending a number of flexible workplace policies to more than 2,000 federal employees. Among the new benefits are streamlined telework privileges and the ability for employees to opt in to a four-day work-week with expanded hours each day.
Tags: telework , J.David Cox , AFGE , workforce , union contract , Jack Moore
The top 12 in 2012
Tom Johnson and Alice Lipowicz from Set Aside Alert join host Mark Amtower to discuss 2012's biggest federal stories.
January 28, 2013(Encore presentation February 4, 2013)
Tags: acquisition , contracting , Tom Johnson , Alice Lipowicz , Set Aside Alert , GSA , SDVOSB , defense authorization , women owned small businesses , Mark Amtower , Amtower Off Center
Experimental website aims to overhaul RFP process
The Presidential Innovation Fellows Program and SBA launch RFP-EZ to make finding and bidding on Web and digital services contracts worth $150,000 or less easier. The team of three found the six-month project also could test out tools for contracting officers to write better RFPs.
Tags: acquisition , industry , Clay Johnson , Presidential Fellows Program , contracting , Jason Miller
Federal Drive Interviews -- Dec. 14, 2012
Khem Sharma discusses the Small Business Administration's plans to raise size standards for companies in two groups. Dr. Murray Lumpkin of the FDA talks about the close coordination between two countries. Stuart Delery explains how the Justice Department recovered $5 billion under the False Claims Act last year.
Tags: Khem Sharma , Federal Drive , Murray Lumpkin , USDA , Stuart Delery , Justice Department , DoD , DoD Report , cybersecurity , Cybersecurity Update , False Claims Act
Federal Drive interviews - Oct. 23
Kaiser Permanente CEO George Halvorson talks e-health records. Also, BGov reporter Richard Stein gives an update on SBA's consideration of size standards by industry.
Tags: Federal Drive , technology , e-health , Richard Stein , BGov , George Halvorson , Kaiser Permanente , Joe Petrillo , contracting , DoD , cybersecurity
