Article: New SBA Policy Gives Fortune 500 Firms Billions in Small Business Contracts Until 2012, Says American Small Business League.

Small Businesses Lose Billions to Big Business With New SBA Policy

PETALUMA, Calif., March 21 /PRNewswire/ -- A new Small Business Administration policy set to go into effect this summer will allow the federal government to report billions of dollars earmarked for small businesses to Fortune 500 companies. Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Rolls Royce and L-3 Communications, to name a few, stand to benefit from this policy through the year 2012.

With barely four months of experience as the new SBA Administrator, Steven Preston finalized a policy that could divert billions of dollars in contracts earmarked for small businesses to these ...

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