Veterans wishing to start a military business have many different points of support, including organizations like VAMBOA (Veteran and Military Business Owners Association) and the Small Business Administration. A military small business can be difficult to get off the ground without obtaining military loans from a military lending network or company. Military small business loans are available for all veterans who meet the necessary requirements to qualify, including Service Disabled Veteran Owned Businesses (SDVOB). The Small Business Administration has the necessary materials you need to complete in order to be considered for one of their military loans or military small business loans.

VAMBOA is a great organization to become a part of because it offers many networking opportunities for your military small business that you may not have access to otherwise. Some of the networking benefits VAMBOA offers to its veterans include connecting with other SDVOB and military business owners, obtaining corporate and government contracts to reduce the amount of military lending necessary to run your military small business and gaining access to conferences and seminars you might otherwise not be able to attend. Networking is crucial to the success of your military business, so take advantage of VAMBOA, using its connections to SDVOB and military lending opportunities. Registration for VAMBOA is absolutely free, which is the best kind of networking any military small business just starting out could want.

The Small Business Administration is a key resource to have at your disposal when beginning or extending your military small business. The Small Business Administration has access to many military small business loans and other military loans that you can use to purchase vital equipment, space or machinery. Currently, the Small Business Administration is piloting a new program called the Patriot Express Loan Program, which provides military lending to new and expanding companies in different amounts of military loans. This program is available only to military business owners, SDVOB and veterans looking to start a military business. The program will only be accepting applications for military small business loans through the end of December 2010, so make sure to apply early if you are looking to obtain one of these military loans.

Business loans for military and business loans for veterans are some of the only way military business owners, veteran business owners and service disabled veteran business owners can start and build a business. Luckily, there are options for veterans and military members looking to find small business loans. The Small Business Administration is a great help when it comes to finding business loans for military and business loans for veterans.

Since the economy took a downturn, many service disabled veteran business owners, veteran business owners and military business owners have found it difficult to get the small business loans they need to help their businesses succeed. In response to the troubles many veterans and military business owners are facing, the Small Business Administration has developed a new program called the Patriot Express Loan Program. Under the Patriot Express program, veterans and military members looking to start a business or expand their business can apply for small business loans created specifically for military and veterans. The Small Business Administration is offering this program until the end of December, 2010, so it is imperative for military business owners, veteran business owners and service disabled veteran business owners looking for business loans for military and business loans for veterans to submit their applications as soon as possible to be considered for these small business loans.

The Small Business Administration also offers other business loans for veterans and business loans for military that don’t fall under the time restraint of the Patriot Express program. These loans are not necessarily created or held specifically for military business owners or veteran business owners, but they are still extraordinary help when building or expanding a business. There are some small business loans specifically for service disabled veteran business owners; however, these can be few and far between.

VAMBOA in an effort to Unite Veteran and Military Business Owners For Collaboration, Connections and Contracts, is pleased to provide a contracting resource for our members, the Army Small Business Specialists Directory.  This directory is a valuable tool for any Veteran Business, SDVOB and Military Business that wants to work with the Army.   Vamboa users will find the names, addresses, phone numbers and emails of important contacts.  These contacts for veteran business owners, SDVOB and Military Business Owners include:

• Command Associate Directors
• AMC Subordinate Small Business Offices
• ACC Mission Installation Contraction Command (MICC)
• ACC Other
• ACE Division Offices
• ACE District Offices

Army Small Business Specialists Directory 06/21/2010

Army Small Business Specialists Directory 07/17/2012

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VAMBOA provides the National Guard Contracting Office Directory as a resource.  It provides Veteran Business Owners, Service Disabled Veteran Business Owners (SDVOB) and Military Business Owners up-to-date contact information into all the 147 National Guard buying locations.

The first buying office listed in the Directory places contracts to satisfy National Guard Bureau requirements in the National Capital Region.  The remainder of the Directory groups buying offices by the State in which they are located.  The States are then arranged alphabetically.  The National Guard Contracting Office Directory is organized in this way to help you market an individual State, a Region or everyone, if you choose.  We hope this information and organization works for you.

The National Guard Contracting Site – www.nationalguardcontracting.org includes links to the most current version of the Federal Acquisition Regulation and its Supplements, the Central Contractor Registry, ORCA and also displays current solicitations within the National Guard Bureau.  Their solicitations at FedBizOps and E-Buy are also posted.  The NGB listing is duplicative of these sites.  We believe their listing is easier and quicker to use.  You can open it on a daily basis to check for new postings.

We’ve also included contact information for Associate Directors of Small Business Programs in the other Major Commands within the Army.  They do in their Commands what this office does within NGB.

The list of websites are internet locations we feel provide important information or guidance to small businesses.  Our site, www.nationalguardcontracting.org includes links to the most current version of the Federal Acquisition Regulation and its Supplements, the Central Contractor Registry, ORCA and also displays current solicitations within the National Guard Bureau.  We also post our solicitations at FedBizOps and E-Buy.  The NGB listing is duplicative of these sites.  We believe our listing is easier and quicker to use.  You can open it on a daily basis to check for new postings.

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• National Guard Contracting Offices 2010
• UPDATED: National Guard Contracting Offices 2014

VAMBOA, as a resource, provides a list of those corporations that have been awarded government contracts.  These corporations should be very interested in working with Veteran Business Owners, SDVOB and Military Business Owners:

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Army Contract Awards

• Oshkosh Corp. (Oshkosh, WI) – Awarded a $584,914,693 firm-fixed-price corporate contract on June 29 for the purchase of 1,274 Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Trucks (HEMTT) variant trucks, 452 refurbished HEMTT trucks and 98 palletized load systems trailers.
• Oshkosh Corp. (Oshkosh, WI) – Awarded a $105,570,416 firm-fixed price contract on June 29 for the production of 644 family of medium tactical vehicles, 621 trucks and 43 trailers.
• TASC, Inc. (Andover, MA) – Awarded a $44,786,637 firm-fixed-priced contract on June 30. The contractor shall provide all the necessary labor, supplies, material and equipment in support of the U.S. Army Special Programs Office (ASPO), Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA).
• Atlantic Diving Supply, Inc. (Virginia Beach, VA) – Awarded a $39,500,00 firm-fixed-price contract to purchase Generation III extreme cold weather clothing system kits.
• EvensonBest (New York, NY) – Awarded a $37,890,714 firm-fixed-price contract on June 29 to for lease-to-purchase private office case goods, open plans work stations and general furnishings for a new headquarters facility at Fort Meade, MD.
• United Technologies Corp. (Hartford, CT) – Awarded a $33,866,773 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for further development of constant volume combustion (CVC) technology and culmination of a full scale demonstration of a Vulcan engine – CVC module and power turbine engine – that addresses near-term Department of Defense transition needs with the potential to significantly impact multiple defense and commercial applications.
• Dragados USA, Inc. (New York, NY) – Awarded a $33,770,948 firm-fixed price contract for new excavation, wetland mitigations, demolition of two abandoned sewer siphons, construction of one grade control structure and incidental related work.
• Northrop Grunman Corp. (San Diego, CA) – Awarded a $33,344,592 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract on June 30. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Global Hawk autonomous aerial refueling demonstration program will accomplish the first-ever fully autonomous rendezvous, rejoin, station keeping, aerial refueling, and formation separation of two unmanned aircraft.
• Oshkosh Corp. (Oshkosh, WI) – Awarded a $30,910,661 firm-fixed-price contract on June 29 for the procurement of 286 family of medium tactical vehicles; 37 b-kits; 167 trucks; and 119 trailers.
• BAE Systems, Specialty Group, Inc. (Pheonix, AZ) – Awarded a $16,999,833 firm-fixed-price contract on June 30 for helmet sensors, Generation II.
• Allen-Vanguard, Inc. (Ogdensburg, NY) – Awarded a $16,999,760 firm-fixed price contract on June 30 for helmet sensors, Generation II.
• Day & Zimmermann Hawthorne Corp. (Hawthorne, NV) – Awarded a $16,072,491 firm-fixed-price contract on June 30 for services for the operation and maintenance of Hawthorne Army Depot, storage, shipment and receipt of ammunition.
• Kitware, Inc. (Clifton Park, NJ) – Awarded a $13,883,313 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract on June 30 to build a revolutionary wide area motion imagery (WAMI) analysis workstation called the Persistent Motion Imagery Analysis Tool for Exploitation (PerMIATE).
• Emerson Construction Co., Inc. (Temple, TX) – Awarded a $12,805,000 firm-fixed-price contract for the construction of an Army Reserve Center, San Antonio, Texas.
• Boeing Research & Technology (Seattle, WA) – Awarded a $12,527,049 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to reduce the risk and uncertainties associated with performing extended flight information to a sufficient level while still achieving a significant aerodynamic performance benefit.
• General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems, Inc. (St. Petersburg, FL) – Awarded an $11,027,351 basic order agreement with firm-fixed-price delivery orders on June 30 for the small caliber ammunition second source prime contractor for the production of 5.56mm ammunition used in M4 carbines, M16A2 rifles, and M249 light machine guns; 7.6mm ammunition used in M240 series machine guns; and Caliber .50 small arms ammunition used in M2 and other heavy machine guns.
• Lockheed Martin Services, Inc. (Gaithersburg, MD) – Awarded a $10,989,965 firm-fixed-price contract on June 29 for one General Purpose Electronic Test Station (GET)-1000M2M; one GET-1000B2M; one GET-1000B2; installation and training; one lot of spares for the test stations; one lot of technical support and replacements for GET-1000B2M obsolete items.
• Oshkosh Corp. (Oshkosh, WI) – Awarded an $8,750,000 firm-fixed-price contract for the procurement of 1,750 kits for Command, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance suite and battery upgrade/silent watch for Operation Enduring Freedom upgrades on the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected All-terrain vehicle.
• Caelum Research Corp. (Rockville, MD) – Awarded an $8,641,352 firm-fixed-price contract for information systems operations and support services, i.e. communication security, database management, systems administration, helpdesk, programming, and data handling.

Navy Contract Awards

• Electric Boat Corp. (Groton, CT) – Awarded a $171,856,353 contract for lead yard services, development studies and design efforts related to Virginia Class submarines.
• Raytheon Co. (Tucson, AZ) – Awarded a $44,478,772 cost-plus-fixed-fee-contract for fiscal 2010 design agent engineering services for the MK-31 rolling airframe missile (RAM) guided missile weapon system, a cooperative development and production program conducted jointly by the U.S. and Federal Republic of Germany under memoranda of understanding.
• Raytheon Co., Integrated Defense Systems (Sudbury, MA) – Awarded a $13,682,885 firm-fixed-price definitization modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-06-G-5109) for procurement of three AN/SPY-1 radar transmitter multi-mission capability ordnance alteration (ORDALT) kits; 15 stabilized master oscillator ORDALT kits; 16 kill assessment system ORDALT kits; and four radio frequency coherent combiners.
• DRS Sonar Systems, LLC (Gaithersburg, MD) – Awarded a $9,677,410 firm-fixed price contract for development and fielding of a high search rate tactical anti-submarine warfare capability in the form of a variable depth sonar (VDS) for installation on the littoral combat ship.

Defense Logistics Agency Contract Awards

• Direct Energy Business, LLC (Pittsburgh, PA) – Awarded a maximum $90,294,923 fixed-price with economic price adjustment contract to provide electricity.

Air Force Contract Awards

• Pratt and Whitney Military Aftermarket Services (San Antonio, TX) – Awarded a $51,960,191 contract for the overhaul of core module, with a quantity of 28, supporting the F100-229, F15 and F16 aircraft.

U.S. Special Operations Command Contract Awards

• Raytheon Co. (McKinney, TX) – Awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract (H92241-10-D-0004) with a maximum value of $17,000,000 for depot-level maintenance support for the AN/APQ-174B multi-mode radar in support of U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) Technology Applications Program Office.