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IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 206-96
April 12, 1996

SMALL BUSINESS GETS HOME PAGE

The Air Force Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization islaunching its own Internet home page to give customers maximum access toinformation.

Initially, the electronic outreach forum will provide customers the Air ForceMarketing Information Package by Internet, including: The Long RangeAcquisition Estimate; "Selling to the Air Force;" "Diversification for SmallBusiness" and The Mentor/ Protégé Handbook.

However, additional useful marketing tools and links to many other importantinformation resources will be provided, said Anthony J. DeLuca, director of theAir Force Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization.

Planned upgrades are in the works to make the system even more useful to smallbusiness. "Over the next several weeks, we intend to aggressively advertiseour home page and plan to have it highlighted on the Air Force Home Page," hesaid.

The World Wide Web address is: http://www.safsb.hq.af.mil/index.htm