PETALUMA, Calif., June 1, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/-- Sikorsky Aircraft has filed Documents with the Federal district Court of San Francisco notifyingthe Court they will be intervening in the December 11^th trial between the American Small Business League (ASBL)and the Pentagon. In a recent Government Executive storyentitled 'Pentagon Headed to Court Against Small Business Advocate'a Sikorsky spokesman stated: "At this time Sikorsky is not a party to theongoing case." Sikorsky filed their motion for intervention on April 20, 2017.

The ASBL won the case in Federal District Court on November 23, 2014.  Federal Judge Judge Alsupdescribed the ASBL's case by stating, "So it would be more like a David andGoliath. You get to come in there and be the underdog again against the bigcompany and against the big government."  "They are trying to suppress the evidence."

The ASBL filed their case due to overwhelming evidence that the Pentagon's ComprehensiveSubcontracting Plan Test Program (CSPTP) was designed to create a loophole allowing the Pentagon's largest prime contractors to circumvent federalsmall business subcontracting goals.

In 2014 the Pentagon asked that Congress not renew the program,with Pentagon spokeswoman Maureen Schumannacknowledging that the CSPTP had actually reduced subcontracting opportunitiesfor small businesses and "reduced the Pentagon's small businessindustrial supplier base."

Professor Charles Tiefer,one of the nation's leading experts on federal contracting law released a legal opinion on the CSPTP,describing it as a "sham" and seriously harmful tosmall businesses.

Congress renewed the program until 2027in December of 2016 despite the Pentagon's acknowledgement that it had harmedsmall business subcontracting opportunities for small businesses.

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