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1981 SMALL-BUSINESS DIRECTORY OF GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS is designed to provide small businesses with official contacts in the Department of Defense and majo... Read story
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How Two R&D Programs Can Work For Small Companies
The National Science Foundation's Small Business Innovation Research program (SBIR) and the Defense Department's Small Business Advanced Technology progra... Read story
Department Of Defense Small Business Advanced Technology Program (desat)
Phase I: The DoD expects to award approximately 100 contracts of up to $50,000 each for feasibility research carried out over six months. Phase II: ... Read story
Correction
In July's Ideas (page 110), we incorrectly entitled the 1981 Small-Business Directory of Government Contacts. Note that the 72-page book, which is designe... Read story
How To Save A Few Billion Dollars
Defense bureaucrats could save that much by contracting with smaller companies. Read story
How Two R&D Programs Can Work For Small Companies
The National Science Foundation's Small Business Innovation Research program (SBIR) and the Defense Department's Small Business Advanced Technology progra... Read story
Questionable Rewards
In "The Talk of the Pentagon" (News & Trends, January) you quote me as saying, "I think [Ada's] a klutz." Klutz is not a word in my normal vocabulary.... Read story
The Never-ending Controversy
Why the Pentagon will keep spending $7,600 for a coffee maker. Read story
A Theory By Any Other Name
Something like Theory F permeates much of our big business. Businesses grow so large that safety and caution become more key to strategy than the entrepr... Read story
Breaking Away
Three defense contractors found success in diversification after the government slashed its spending. Read story
Tips on Winning Federal Tech Grants
Small-business owners will be offered tips on winning government grants for technology and innovation at a conference in Texas this fall. The Natio... Read story
Grabbing a Piece of the Defense-Spending Pie
A look at seven Inc. 500 companies that sell technology and services to the Pentagon Read story
More Help for Veteran-Owned Businesses
Senate lawmakers on Tuesday approved provisions aimed at helping veterans and reservists keep their businesses afloat, during or after deployment. ... Read story
The Business of Iraq
A lot of American contractors have done very well during the Iraq war. What happens if it ends? Read story
What's The Pentagon's Role In The Chip Wars?
In the high-stakes semiconductor business, Japan has the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) and the United States has the Defense Departm... Read story
Competing With Uncle Sam
If small business can handle it, the job shouldn't be done by government. Read story
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Defense procurement dollars aren't going to small business, says a Federal Trade Commission study. Only 20% of the Defense Department's procurement comes... Read story
Help Soldiers Get Back to Work
Federal law guarantees reemployment for those serving in the Reserves and National Guard, but the transition from battlefield to workplace can be fraught wit... Read story
Zooming In on Government Money
Ordering information for two guidebooks to tapping sources of capital from federal and state governments. Read story
National Venture Capital Conference Set
The National Association of Seed and Venture Funds will hold its annual conference in Little Rock, Ark., in September, organizers said. In addition... Read story
Small-Business Contracts Fall to Record Low
The government awarded just 17% of contracting dollars to small firms in 2005, according to a new report. Read story
Export Controls: Showdown In The Senate
House-backed bill would reduce restricted goods by 40%. Read story
Business-to-Business Marketing
Commercial transactions between businesses are covered more generally in this volume in the article called Business-to-Business . Here the intenti... Read story
Uncle Sam Wants You -- To Do R
The Department of Defense, which has long relied on large companies for the bulk of its purchases, recently turned an eye to small businesses for research... Read story
Let Uncle Sam Outfit Your Office
Surplus government equipment may be a good bet if you're outfitting a business on a shoestring. Excess items are auctioned off to the public through two ... Read story
The Talk Of The Pentagon
With a stroke of his pen, Richard D. De Lauer has created a booming new software industry. DeLauer is the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engin... Read story
Brave New Policy: Extensive Benefits For Military Reservists
Should you cover dependent health care for deployed troops? Read story
Small Businesses Denied Government Contracts
Oct. 15, 2004 --As the countdown towards the presidential election continues, House Democrats continue to criticize the way the Bush Admin... Read story
Rocket Man
A high-tech company awaits the launch of the first satellite to use its rocket boosters. Read story
A Garbage Hauler Against The Pentagon
For six years, Turco Disposal Inc. of Lake Havasu City, Ariz., collected the garbage at the Naval Weapons Center in China Lake Calif. But last year, the D... Read story
Officers and Gentlemen
Venture capital firms size up the market for defense contracting Read story
Best of the Small Business Web: Conjunction Junction
Compaero makes its connectors a cinch to buy while expanding its customer base. Read story
SBA Announces New Rules For Small Business Contracts
Jan. 9, 2005 --Following on the heels of a report that found that the government has been shortchanging small businesses when doling out f... Read story
Why Bureaucrats Avoid Small Business R & D
As a rule, the federal government doesn't like to do business with small companies, for reasons that are not hard to understand if you're the government e... Read story
U.S. Halts Security-Clearance Program for Defense Contractors
The move could send companies scrambling for employees that already have clearance. Read story
The Storm Before the Calm
Might war with Iraq spur economic growth? And what will it mean for small companies? Read story
Growing . . . Going . . . Gone
To stay in business, Wallace Forman had to stay small -- at any cost. Read story
Getting Defensive;
GETTING A CALL FROM THE Department of Defense was a shocker for Merlin Hanson, who never dreamed he would benefit from the recent scandal over spare parts... Read story
Increased Use of Reservists Impacts Small Businesses
May 25, 2005 --The Department of Defense's dramatic increase in the use of military reserves is not only taking its toll on military famil... Read story
Subcontracting
Strictly speaking, "subcontracting" is practiced only by a contractor, namely an individual or a company working for another entity under a contractual ag... Read story
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