203: Pentagon steps in to rescue small and tiny businesses. Francis Rose @FRoseDC,
Image: The predecessor to the US Defense Department, the Department of War. Francis Rose @FRoseDC, Government Matters, WJLA, Channel 7 in Washington, D.C; in re: Defense Department supports and keeps afloat myriad small and tiny businesses, including subcontractors down four and five levels. Pentagon is alert to this, is intervening to be sure that they have work and income. . . . The push and pull come from middle managers (having twenty or so people under one); working from home means no two hours in traffic each way, no break room or Starbucks, so a lot more gets done. The grand and the small at DoD. - #SmallBusinessAmerica: DoD Lessons Learned #in-the-time-of-the-virus. - NatSec 2020 virtual conference we did this week - DoD CMO Lisa Hershman https://www.nextgov.com/it-modernization/2020/07/coronavirus-shattered-myth-defense-workforce-cant-telework-official-says/166867/ - Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment - Alan Shaffer https://www.defensenews.com/congress/2020/07/14/the-pentagon-wants-a-10b-defense-industry-cash-injection-is-congress-listening/ - Hershman https://fcw.com/articles/2020/07/14/williams-dod-cmo-savings.aspx - Shaffer https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2020/7/13/defense-industry-bouncing-back-as-pentagon-considers-more-aid - HASC Chair Adam Smith https://news.usni.org/2020/07/13/hasc-chair-smith-troops-not-ready-to-fight-without-resource-informed-strategy