JD Supra

SBA Suspends Over 1,000 8(a) Participants After Program-Wide Audit Data Request While DoW Announces Line-By-Line Review of All Small Business Awards Over $20 Million

The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) has suspended 1,091 participants in the 8(a) Business Development Program after concluding that those firms did not timely submit required documentation in ...
JD Supra

8(a) Client Alert: Secretary Hegseth Directs Line-by-Line Review of All Small Business Sole-Source and Set-Aside Awards Over $20 Million

This alert is a follow-on to our prior coverage of the SBA's December 2025 announcement that every 8(a) participant (over 4,300 firms) was required to submit detailed financial records covering the ...
GovCon Wire

War Secretary Pete Hegseth Directs Review of SBA 8(a) Program Amid Fraud Concerns

Department of War Secretary Pete Hegseth said the Pentagon is reviewing the Small Business Administration’s 8(a) Business Development Program, arguing that the long-running initiative has strayed from ...
Homeland Security Today

Sen. Ernst Pushes Agencies to Halt 8(a) Contracts After SBA Demands Financial Records

Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) is intensifying her months-long campaign to root out what she characterizes as widespread fraud in the Small Business Administration’s (SBA’s) 8(a) Business Development ...