News A Small Business Whistle-Blower Gets a Fraud Settlement By Patrick ClarkBloomberg Businessweek March 25, 2014Contracting for the federal government is aspecialized but lucrative field. Small businesses that managed to navigate thearcane rules for bidding for...

News McCaskill probes 'clunky' contracting databases By Adam MazmanianFCW March 6, 2014The federal government maintainsinformation about federal contractor performance in a system of databases thatis supposed to keep contract officers up to date on how well...

News Explaining the Senate Plan to Kill the Small Business Administration By Patrick ClarkBloomberg Businessweek January 14, 2014Last month, Senator Richard Burr, (R-N.C.) introduced a bill that would combine the U.S. Commerce and Labor departments and eliminate the...

News Are We Sending The Wrong Message to Small Business? By Ty KiiselForbes January 14, 2014You gotta walk the walk if you’re gonna talk the talk.Washington does a lot of talking about the importance of small business. They like to point to how small business makes up...

News That Old Idea to Shutter SBA is Back By Adrienne BurkeYahoo Small Business Advisor January 10, 2014 A debate about the wisdom of folding the U.S. Small Business Administration into the Department of Commerce has been simmering ever since the idea was proposed by...

News Small business leaders clash over proposal to consolidate SBA with Labor, Commerce By J.D. HarrisonThe Washington Post January 7, 2014 It seems a harmless enough word, “consolidation.” However, it has some small business leaders up in arms, as Republican...

News Burr bill would restructure SBA, Commerce and Labor By Matt EvansThe Business Journal January 6, 2014Sen. Richard Burr says a bill he has put forward to merge the departments of Commerce and Labor and restructure the Small Business Administration would eliminate...

News N.C.'s Burr proposes changes that small-business advocates don't like By Renee SchoofMcClatchy Washington Bureau January 4, 2014WASHINGTON —  Sen. Richard Burr, a former businessman in North Carolina, says he wants the federal government to put the Small Business...

  News   N.C.'s Burr proposes changes that small-business advocates don't like By Renee Schoof McClatchy Washington Bureau January 4, 2014 WASHINGTON —  Sen. Richard Burr, a former businessman in North Carolina, says he wants the federal government to put...

News Oklahoma Senator Co-Sponsors Bill To Close Small Business Administration By Garrett PowdersOklahoma NewsOn6 December 23, 2013WASHINGTON, D.C -             North Carolina Senator Richard Burr is planning to revive a bill almost identical to one proposed in the...

News Why the Long Wait for a New SBA Chief? By Patrick ClarkBloomberg Businessweek December 2, 2013Karen Mills announced her resignation as administrator of the Small Business Administration in February, but didn’t leave the agency until August, when she decamped for...

News Lockheed Martin Contracting Report FOIA Denial November 4, 2013https://www.asbl.com/documents/Response Denial_2010Jun01_Lockheed Martin Sub Report CSPTP, DOD.pdf

News Lockheed Martin Contracting Report FOIA November 4, 2013April 20, 2010Chief, Freedom of InformationOffice of Freedom of Information1155 Defense PentagonWashington, DC 20301-1155Re: Freedom of Information Act RequestDear FOIA Officer:This is a request under...

News Big Firms Winning Small Business Contracts By Bennett J. LoudonDemocrat & Chronicle October 21, 2013CarestreamHealth has annual revenues of more than $2 billion and 7,300 employees. Harris Corp. does about $800 million and hasabout 1,700 workers. And ITT Space...

News Struggle Continues to Reform the Small Business Administration By David KigerBusiness 2 Community October 12, 2013Funding is a particular impediment for small businesses, especially those  owned by socially and economically disadvantaged entrepreneurs. In 1953, ...

News Email from huffington Post Executive Blog Editor, Stauart Whatley October 11, 2013From: Stuart Whatley Date: Friday, October 11, 2013 7:26 PMTo: Lloyd Chapman Subject: Re: Lloyd Chapman's BlogHi Lloyd, thank you for your latest piece; however, we’ve decided that...

News Richest Corporations Received Millions of Dollars in Small Business Contracts By Noel BrinkerhoffAllGov September 27, 2013 Some of the wealthiest companies in America are reaping million-dollar government contracts that are supposed to go to small businesses. The...

News Nearly Half of Fortune 500 Companies Get Small Business Administration Money Meant For Small Businesses: American Small Business League By Meagan ClarkInternational Business Times September 26, 2013Nearly half of Fortune 500 companies (235/500) collectively...

News Nearly Half of Fortune 500 Gets the (Small) Business By Neil GordonProject on Government Oversight Blog (POGO) September 25, 2013The American Small Business League (ASBL) has long fought to stop the flow of federal small business contracts to large companies that...

News What's Up with the Small Business Administration (SBA)? VetLikeMe September 12, 2013This is the main question within the veteran-owned smallbusiness community in light of recent events. Businesses with fewer than 500employees account for:·        99% of all...

News What's Up with the Small Business Administration (SBA)? VetLikeMe September 12, 2013 This is the main question within the veteran-owned small business community in light of recent events. Businesses with fewer than 500 employees account for: ·         99% of all...

News US Federal Contractor Registration: Women-Owned Small Business Contractors Continue to Thrive in Spite of Recent Sequester Digital Journal September 5, 2013Woman-owned small businesses in the 2013 fiscal year have been pulling in contract after contract due to...

News SBA Press office takeover: Pentagon retired Commander put in charge of SBA press Examiner August 29, 2013The Obama administration has moved to take more control of the Small Business Administration (SBA). The SBA's Press Office will now be headed by a former...

News GovernmentContractingTips.com Interviews Lloyd Chapman, President of the American Small Business League By Max Timko GovernmentContractingTips.com August 21, 2013The Small Business Administration announced recently that our governmentjust missed their overall 23%...

News Veterans preference fraud widespread but government prosecutes few cases By Mark FlattenWashington Examiner August 8, 2013Part four of a five-part series. To see the complete series, along with video, interactive graphics and documents, click here.Billions of...

News VA slow to clean up broken veterans preference contracting mess By Mark FlattenWashington Examiner August 7, 2013Part three of a five-part series. To see all the stories and see video, documents and interactive graphics, click here.Preventing fraud in the...

News 'Trust me' is Federal Policy on Policing Preference Fraud By Mark FlattenWashington Examiner August 6, 2013Part two of a five-part series. To see the complete series, including videos, documents and interactive graphics, click here.Lying won't get you banned from...