Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business contracts hit $28.6B in FY2025. Here’s the agency-by-agency, NAICS-by-NAICS breakdown — and why 35% of those dollars went sole-source. rosecoveredglasses.wordpress.com/2026/03/21/s... #SDVOSB #SmallBusinessGovernmentContracting

Blizzard Beauty Vermillion River Trail - Hastings, Minnesota (click the pic for close-up view) flickr.com/photos/odyssey…

U.S. has spent at least $3.4 trillion COUNTERING CHINA MILITARILY since 2012, an average of $260 billion a year and more than total U.S. spending on 20 years of war in Afghanistan ($2.3 trillion). rosecoveredglasses.wordpress.com/2026/03/22/a-f…

RIP Robert Mueller, who was decorated in Vietnam combat and went on to hold high positions in five presidential administrations, becoming the FBI's second longest-serving director rosecoveredglasses.wordpress.com/2026/03/23/t... #RobertMueller #RIP

Earned Value Management gives insight into the dynamics of physical accomplishment as opposed to plan versus actual cost tracking, which reports only that money is being spent. rosecoveredglasses.wordpress.com/2026/03/24/e... #EarnedValueManagment #EVMS

SMALL BUSINESESSES are the Pentagon’s ENGINE OF INNOVATION. Data-driven evidence supports the SBIR and STTR programs over 40-plus years. rosecoveredglasses.wordpress.com/2026/03/25/s... #SmallBusiness #SBIRSTTRSuccess

A SMALL BUSINESS BLOG ARTICLE can be developed as a marketing brochure but it must capture short attention spans and “Make” the reader understand how it can benefit them. rosecoveredglasses.wordpress.com/2026/03/26/w... #SmallBusinessBlogging #Success

SDVOSB STRONG CONTRIBUTOR to NAVY Unmanned Drone Programs. The Vanilla UAV was originally designed and built for the sole purpose of breaking world records which it did. rosecoveredglasses.wordpress.com/2026/03/27/s... #SDVOSBSuccess #NavyDrones

Registration opportunities for VETERANS IN SMALL BUSINESS FEDERAL CONTRACTING. Paths to explore the main registration avenues available to your small business. rosecoveredglasses.wordpress.com/2026/03/28/t... #SmallBusinessRegistration #FederalContracting

A 14 year military reporter describes “BUDGET DAY AT THE PENTAGON". An apt description of what I witnessed for 36 years on the inside of the nations largest defense contractors. rosecoveredglasses.wordpress.com/2026/03/29/a... #Pentagon #BudgetDay

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BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION MISSTEPS. See if any of these sound familiar and consider the tips to fix them. rosecoveredglasses.wordpress.com/2026/03/30/c... #BusinessTranformation #SmartTips

Managing Risk Under ‘THE TRUTH IN NEGOTIATIONS ACT'. Keep your business system sharp, your ethics and standards high and your past performance record clean. rosecoveredglasses.wordpress.com/2026/03/31/m... #GovernmentContractRisk #TruthInNegotiationsAct #TINA

How smart government contractors INCREASE WIN PROBABILITY before the draft RFP drops by early positioning to become, not one of many bidders, but the preferred partner. rosecoveredglasses.wordpress.com/2026/04/01/h... #GovernmentContracting #WinByEarlyPositioning

Challenge conventional wisdom, leverage existing regulations creatively, and engage diverse perspectives to OVERCOME DEFENSE ACQUISITION SYSTEM OBSTACLES. rosecoveredglasses.wordpress.com/2026/04/02/i...

YOUR FREE SMALL BUSINESS ADVISORY SERVICE - developed exclusively as a volunteer organization serving small businesses that wish to succeed in selling to the federal government. rosecoveredglasses.wordpress.com/2026/04/03/y... #FreeToSmallBusiness #VolunteerServices

VETERANS ARE PROTECTED from retaliation for EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION CLAIMS at government agencies under the USERRA anti-retaliation provision. rosecoveredglasses.wordpress.com/2026/04/04/vet… #USERRA

SPRING TRANSITIONS on the way - Vermillion River Valley - Hastings, Minnesota flickr.com/photos/odyssey… #Minnesota #NaturePhotography

Could the U.S. have won THE VIETNAM CONFICT? “Interventions” in Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and Ukraine demonstrate the out of control nature of the Military Industrial Complex. rosecoveredglasses.wordpress.com/2026/04/05/cou… #Vietnam #Iran #PastAndPresentUSInterventions

FREE GOVERNMENT CONTRACT DATABASES and how to search for market targets, companies that may be open to industry teaming and other vital information. rosecoveredglasses.wordpress.com/2026/04/06/f... #GovernmentContracting #MarketResearchTools