Archive for June, 2010

There was no limit to the amount of help or advice a Small Business Administration 8(a) company could get in downtown Anchorage on June 22-23 while the National 8(a) Association held its 2010 National conference at the Marriott Hotel.
“This is a good outreach, and there will be more help to come for rural Alaska business [...]

by Rhonda McBride

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Anchorage has drawn owners of minority businesses from around the country for two days of meetings.
Their mission is to learn how to manage government contracts, to create jobs and opportunity.
In recent years, Alaska Native corporations have become major players in government contracting.
Alaska’s economic landscape has some features that make it [...]

The National 8(a) Association returns to Anchorage for its summer conference, on Tuesday and Wednesday, June 22 and 23. Karen Mills, Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration, is attending and will give the Keynote address. Other officials — from DoD, the Dept. of Interior, Dept. of Justice, NASA, SBA and the U.S. Army [...]

PR Newswire
WASHINGTON, June 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — United States Senators Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., Chair of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, and Benjamin L. Cardin, D-Md., yesterday introduced S. 3458, the Section 8(a) Improvements Act of 2010. The legislation seeks to improve access to federal contracts for socially and economically disadvantaged small businesses [...]