Solicitor General Helps Pentagon Stall Release of Damaging Subcontracting Data, According to ASBL

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Pentagon Refusing to Release Court Ordered Information to ASBL

(firmenpresse) - PETALUMA, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 12/04/14 -- The Office of the Solicitor General has intervened in a between American Small Business League () President and the .

Federal District Court Judge William Alsup submitted by under the Pentagon's 25-year-old Comprehensive Subcontracting Plan Test Program to the ASBL by .

Judge Alsup has now granted a of the release of the data to give the Office of the Solicitor General time to decide if they want to appeal Judge Alsup's ruling.

"The Solicitor General and the Pentagon know they have no chance of winning an appeal in this case. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals that small business subcontracting data cannot be withheld under the Freedom of information Act," said Chapman. "The Pentagon is simply stalling the release of what they know will be very damaging information and probably by the Pentagon until Congress of the Comprehensive Subcontracting Plan Test Program before the December 11th recess."

The ASBL selected Sikorsky at random as a test case to challenge the any data on the CSPTP since it began in 1990.

The CSPTP was adopted by the Pentagon under the pretest of "" All available information indicates the program did just the opposite. For twenty-five years the CSPTP has eliminated all data that had been previously available to the general public that could be used to track a prime contractors' compliance with federally mandated small business subcontracting goals. The CSPTP also eliminated all penalties prime contractors had previously faced, such as , for failing to comply with their small business subcontracting goals.

A and language in the (NDAA) acknowledged there is no evidence in the program's twenty-five year history that is has ever benefited small businesses.

In September, Professor Charles Tiefer, one of America's leading experts on federal contracting law released a of the CSPTP that stated, "The program is a sham and its extension will be seriously harmful to vital opportunities for small business to get government contracting work... Let it expire."

A victory for the ASBL in the Sikorsky case will lead to . Chapman believes the data will prove the Pentagon has falsified the agencies compliance with federal law that mandates a minimum of 23 percent of all federal contracts be awarded to small businesses. in the CSPTP include: Boeing, BAE Systems, GE Aviation, General Dynamics, Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation, Harris Corporation, L3 Communications, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Pratt & Whitney, Raytheon and Sikorsky.

The Pentagon now has until January 22, 2015 to turn over the Sikorsky data to the ASBL.

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