WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, and U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaiʻi), vice chairman, will hold an oversight hearing on Tuesday, ...

Public discussion surrounding the Small Business Association’s 8(a) Business Development Program has increasingly drifted from fact and toward caricature. The program is often portrayed as a shortcut ...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) announced the suspension of 1,091 firms from the 8(a) Business Development Program -- representing ...

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The largest spender in the federal government procurement space is carefully sifting through a core small-business contracting program. “We are actually taking a sledgehammer to the oldest DEI program ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Jan. 16 lambasted a decades-old contracting program that provides business opportunities for ...

Workers at The Forge, an advanced manufacturing facility at the Army's Schofield Barracks in Hawaii, during a recent visit from Assistant Secretary of Defense for Industrial Base Policy Michael ...

The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) has issued formal guidance to SBA program officials reiterating, in alignment with policy changes implemented by Administrator Kelly Loeffler last year, ...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) issued formal guidance to SBA program officials reiterating, in alignment with policy changes ...

The Defense Department is joining several other agencies in a top-to-bottom review of 8(a) small business contracts. In a video posted Friday to X, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the department ...