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 ...

Secretary of War Hegseth announced that his department is "taking a sledgehammer to the oldest DEI program in the federal government—the 8(a) program." (Source: X @SecWar) On January 16, 2026, ...

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 ...

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 ...

With little fanfare, the Small Business Administration has suspended at least 1,000 contractors from the 8(a) program because they failed to submit data that SBA requested a month earlier. SBA said in ...

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 ...

Companies in the 8(a) small business contracting program are facing unprecedented pressure as the Trump administration paints it as rife with corruption and a bastion of illegal diversity, equity, and ...