Goodbye PTAC, Hello APEX Accelerators

The Department of Defense (DOD) and the Small Business Administration (SBA) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on Friday, December 2, 2022, in a bid to strengthen and expand small business development nationally. The most obvious immediate change is that the more than 90 Procurement Technical Assistance Centers (PTAC) will be renamed APEX Accelerators, and the DOD and SBA are hopeful that this rebranding will bring new life to  the program, which provides free procurement assistance to small businesses that work with all levels of the government, whether federal, state, or local.

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SBA To Provide Strategy For Small Businesses To Improve Cybersecurity

By the middle of this year, the U.S. Small Business Administration should have a strategy in place to assist small businesses with cybersecurity.

The 2017 National Defense Authorization Act is chock full of interesting legal changes for government contractors, and although we have chronicled it in depth, that does not mean there is not necessarily more to be mined from the whopping 1,587-page legislation.

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