​The Small Business Blog

On October 1, 2015, the Inspector General (IG) of the Department of Defense (DoD) issued a Report titled "Evaluation of Defense Contract Management Agency Actions on Reported DoD Contractor Business System Deficiencies."  

​The IG evaluated DCMA's actions on DoD contractor business system deficiencies reported in 21 Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) audit reports with an eye toward assessing DCMA compliance with the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS).

On October 15, 2015, the Small Business Administration Office of Inspector General (SBA IG) issued a Report on the Most Serious Management and Performance Challenges Facing the Small Business Administration (SBA) in Fiscal Year 2016.  

According to the IG Memorandum which accompanied the Report, its overall goal is to "focus attention on significant issues with the objective of working with Agency managers to enhance the effectiveness of SBA's programs and operations.

On October 6, 2015, the Small Business Administration (SBA) issued a Proposed Rule implementing Section 1614 of the 2014 National Defense Authorization Act pertaining to small business subcontracting plans. Under current law, large prime contractors that are required to have small business subcontracting plans only receive small business credit toward their plan's goal performance at the first tier.  The Proposed Rule, as authorized by Section 1614, "would allow an another than small prime contractor that has an individual subcontracting plan for a contract to receive credit towards its small business subcontracting goals for subcontract awards made to small business concerns at any tier."  

On September 24, 2015, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) published a report titled:  "Defense Cybersecurity - Opportunities Exist for DOD to Share Cybersecurity Resources With Small Businesses" which addresses "the extent to which the DOD Office of Small Business Programs (OSBP) has integrated cybersecurity into its existing outreach and education efforts for defense small business."  GAO's review and subsequent Report were done as a result of a provision in the Joint Explanatory Statement accompanying the 2015 NDAA which required GAO to perform such an assessment.