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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