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DoD Official Outlines Efforts To Boost Small Business Participation

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, March 22nd, 2023

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DoD Official Outlines Efforts To Boost Small Business Participation

Farooq Mitha,director of Small Business Programs at the Department of Defense. Photo: DoD

Amid a sharp decline the past decade in small businesses within the nation’s defense industrial base, the Defense Department is undertaking a number of initiatives to improve its efforts to work with small companies and make it easier for them to contract with the department, the head of DoD’s small business office said on Wednesday. Building off recommendations in the DoD Small Business Strategy released in January, the department is creating a unified management approach for its small business programs,…

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