PETALUMA, CA--(Marketwired - Jun 12,2014) - According to the American Small Business League, the American SmallBusiness League (ASBL) has uncovered a 25 year old program thathas allowed some of the Pentagon's largest prime contractors to violate federalcontracting for almost a quarter of a century.

The Comprehensive Subcontracting PlanTest Program slid under the radar of journalists and the publicsince 1990. The test program was adopted under the guise of increasingsubcontracting opportunities for small businesses.

In reality the test program did justthe opposite. Some of the biggest names in the defense and aerospaceindustry were allowed to circumvent federal law that required small businesscontracting goals be achieved. Firms participating inthe program were exempt from any reports that had previously been available tothe general public.

In addition to the total lack oftransparency, prime contractors participating in the test program were exemptfrom any penalties such as "liquidated damages"for non-compliance with their small business subcontracting goals.

The ASBL estimates American smallbusinesses were defrauded out of over a trillion dollars in federalsubcontracts over the last 25 years as a result of the program.

The 2015 National DefenseAuthorization Bill proposes to extend the Comprehensive Subcontracting PlanTest Program into its 28^th year of testing.

Language in the bill acknowledges thePentagon has never been able to provide any data that the removal oftransparency and penalties for prime contractors has ever increasedsubcontracting opportunities for small businesses.

Section 811 of the bill states, "However, after nearly 24 years since the originalauthorization of the program, the test program has yet to provide evidence thatit meets the original stated goal of the program..."

A 2004 Government AccountabilityOffice investigation also found no evidence if theremoval of transparency and penalties for prime contractors increasedopportunities for small businesses.

The Pentagon has also refused torelease any data on firms participating in the test program under the Freedomof Information Act.

The ASBL has filed suit against the Pentagonin Federal District Court in San Francisco after the agency refused to provide dataon Comprehensive Subcontracting Plan Test Program participant Sikorsky. TheASBL has also requested data submitted to the test program by BritishAerospace and Engineering (BAE) and Lockheed Martin.

The ASBL has launched a nationalcampaign to block the renewal of the Program. To date, the Pentagon's plan torenew the Comprehensive Subcontracting Plan Test Program into its 28^th year oftesting has gone unreported in the mainstream media.

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PETALUMA, CA--(Marketwired - Jun 10,2014) - According to the American Small Business League, under the Freedom ofInformation Act, The American Small Business League (ASBL)has requested the most recentdata submitted to the Pentagon by British Aerospace and Engineering (BAE).

The ASBL is specifically requestingthe most recent information BAE submitted to the Pentagon as a participant inthe Comprehensive Subcontracting PlanTest Program. The ASBL believes the data may indicate the Pentagonhas falsified compliance with federal law establishing small businesscontracting goals.

The Pentagon adopted the ComprehensiveSubcontracting Plan Test Program in 1990 after subcontracting plans andquarterly reports, SF 294s, became public that indicated the Pentagon and someprime contractors were violating federal law establishing small businesscontracting goals.

The Comprehensive Subcontracting PlanTest Program was disguised as a program to increase subcontracting opportunitiesfor small businesses. In reality it removed all transparency and eliminated anypenalties such as "liquidated damages"for any prime contractor that failed to achieve their small businesssubcontracting goals.

The ASBL believes the real goal of theComprehensive Subcontracting Plan Test Program is to obscure data that haspreviously been publicly available and shows that the Pentagon and primecontractors have violated federal contracting law. The ASBL estimates smallbusinesses have been defrauded out of over one trillion dollars in subcontractsover the last 25 years as a result of the Test Program.

The program has now been tested for 25years and the Pentagon has consistently refused to release any data on theresults of the Test Program.

A 2004 Government AccountabilityOffice investigation found no evidence theTest Program had ever increased subcontracting opportunities for smallbusinesses.

The language in the 2015 NationalDefense Authorization Bill (H.R. 4435) proposes to renew the Test Program intoits 28^th year. The language in Section 811of the billacknowledges that over the last 25 years there has never been any evidence theTest Program has achieved any of its stated goals.

Section 811 states, "However, after nearly 24 years since the originalauthorization of the program, the test program has yet to provide evidence thatit meets the original stated goal of the program..."

The ASBL has also filed suit inFederal District Court in San Francisco against the Pentagon for refusing to release data from Sikorskysubmitted under the Comprehensive Subcontracting Plan Test Program.

During the last 25 years no journalisthas ever reported on the Comprehensive Subcontracting Plan Test Program or thegoal of the program to increase subcontracting opportunities for smallbusinesses by removing all transparency and penalties for Pentagon primecontractors that do not comply with their small business goals.

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