DLA hit the mark (5 percent), but were always looking to improve. Read the article below to learn more about how the entire federal government can support this program, and about the opportunities available to women-owned businesses. Contracts for woman-owned business continue to miss the mark Sandra Wiggins worked as a human resources specialist for the federal government for more than 35 years across seven different agencies, including 16 in the Defense Department. Now she’s using that expertise to run her own company, hoping to cash in on the billions in federal contracts designated for woman-owned small businesses. “I feel like I have done everything I wanted to do within the federal sector,” Wiggins, now CEO of Wiggins HR Consulting. “I understand federal resources, so it just makes sense for me to do my own thing and get in on the contracts.” The federal government awards an average of $500 billion a year in federal contracts — 5 percent of which is set aside for woman-owned businesses, a standard set by the Small Business Administration’s Women-Owned Small Business Federal Contracting program in 2011. Full story: ow.ly/whnx1
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