Summary

Requires the Small Business Administrator, working with the Office of Veterans Business Development, to provide training, issue guidance, and report to Congress to increase federal contract awards to small businesses owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans. Agencies that missed the applicable contracting goal must have covered employees receive training; the Administrator must issue guidance within 180 days and deliver an initial report to Congress within one year and annual reports thereafter.

Key Points

• Directs the Administrator, with the Office of Veterans Business Development, to provide trainings to procurement employees at agencies that missed SDVOSB contracting goals.
• Requires issuance of implementation guidance within 180 days.
• Mandates an initial report to Congress within one year and annual follow-up reports thereafter.
• Targets increasing federal contract awards to small businesses owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans.
• Applies only to covered employees at agencies that missed the applicable contracting goal; it does not itself change contracting goals.
• Does not specify new funding or penalties; it creates administrative and reporting duties.
• Aims to improve agency compliance and oversight through training and recurring Congressional reporting.

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