A preview of the Defense Small Business Strategy. A new Pentagon strategy to maximize small business participation in defense contracting is in the works for this spring, defense officials told Defense News.
State of Competition in the Defense Industrial Base. DoD Released State of Competition in the Defense Industrial Base.
We want to bring new tech into our supplier base & develop the workforce of the future, American Small Business & our US industrial base must expand not only to improve resiliency, but to ensure we are able to meet tomorrow's high-tech challenge.
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Memo from Secretary of Defense on Small Business Contracting
Why Small Businesses are Essential to U.S. National Security
https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/2810965/why-small-businesses-are-essential-to-us-national-security/
Leveraging Capabilities of Small Businesses
https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Releases/Release/Article/2767014/leveraging-the-capabilities-of-small-businesses/
How Industry Can Continue Supporting DOD's National Security Priorities
https://www.defense.gov/Explore/News/Article/Article/2761938/deputy-secretary-how-industry-can-continue-supporting-dods-national-security-pr/
OSBP and NIST partner for small businesses
The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) Office of Small Business Programs (OSBP), the principal advisor to the Secretary of Defense on small business matters, and U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership Program (MEP) signed a memorandum of agreement on May 02, 2021 to collaborate on strengthening the national security of the small business industrial base.
The new partnership links two DOD organizations with a common mission to assist small businesses and to achieve shared objectives:
- Provide training and technical support to small-and-medium U.S. manufacturers engaged or planning to engage with the defense sector.
- Promote and co-sponsor joint training events beneficial to national security, with an emphasis on cybersecurity for defense manufacturing.
- Establish direct and consistent relationships at multiple organizational levels within both Parties to document and share complementary assistance best practices.
- Develop clear objectives, benchmarks and goals to measure success, added value, and synergy of collaborations between NIST MEP and OUSD(A&S) OSBP.
The OSBP and NIST partnership enables more DOD collaboration and support of small and medium manufacturers (SMMs). They will Collaborate to support the ongoing development and security of the Defense and Industrial Base.
This partnership will combine OSBP’s expertise in leveraging small businesses to close capability gaps for our armed forces with the MEP National Network. The MEP operational base provides an opportunity for OUSD(A&S) OSBP to serve as a resource for the MEP Program of MEP Centers engages defense sector and defense-relevant manufacturing clients to promote and provide technologies, prototypes and products for National Security missions.
OSBP/NSIN News Release
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DoD OSBP Newsletter - February 2021 (pdf)
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