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SBA Small Business Week Women Contractors

    SBA Tops Off Small Business Week with Outreach to Women Contractors Gloria Larkin was a presenter at the conference. Reposted with Permission CHARLES S. CLARK | MAY 11, 2015 | With Small Business Administrator Maria Contreras-Sweet inexplicably detained, her deputy-designate stepped up on Monday to tell an audience of women-owned small business contractors... Read More

Chamber Corner

Chamber Hosts DBED’s Gill More than 200 members, friends and colleagues gathered on April 9 to welcome Michael Gill, secretary of the Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development (DBED), to the Howard County Chamber of Commerce (HCCC) luncheon. The event was held at the Sheraton Columbia. Gill discussed his vision and current developments and... Read More

Doubts Raised- GSA’s New Vision for Federal Contracting

Federal Contracting posted on: Tuesday, April 28, 2015 If comments at a recent public meeting are any indication, the General Service Administration’s proposed Transactional Data Reporting rule may be in danger of stalling before it even gets started. The proposed rule, announced to great fanfare last month, has been trumpeted by GSA as a “new vision for Federal... Read More

Harris Awarded $238M to Build Aviation Weather Info Dissemination

Harris Corp, (NYSE: HRS) has been awarded a potential eight-year, $238 million contract to design, build and implement a technology for the Federal Aviation Administration to disseminate weather information to U.S. airspace users. FAA’s Common Support Services-Weather infrastructure will be built to allow the agency to share climate data with aviation companies that utilize the national airspace system,... Read More