United States Department of Defense

The Department of Defense today will honor several small businesses, defense prime contractors, and DoD acquisition professionals who have contributed to the Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business Program over the past year.

 

The Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business Program is a federal program that was established in 1999, under Public Law 106-50, to foster career opportunities for disabled servicemembers. Among other initiatives, this important program sets a 3 percent annual goal for all federal prime contracting and subcontracting to go to service-disabled veteran-owned companies.

 

The awards will be presented by Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England, Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition & Technology James I. Finley, and Director of Defense Department Small Business Programs Anthony Martoccia, in a ceremony in the Pentagon Conference Center today at 4 p.m. EST.

 

A full list of winners, and more information on the SDVOSB program is available at: http://www.acq.osd.mil/osbp/programs/veterans/index.htm .