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U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)

The primary job of the Department of Defense (www.defenselink.mil) is to train and equip their personnel to perform war fighting, peacekeeping and humanitarian/disaster assistance tasks. Defense purchasing activities are particularly interested in establishing contacts with small business firms, small disadvantaged business firms, and native-owned small business firms. 

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Office of Small Business Programs (OSBP)
www.acq.osd.mil/osbp/ 
The Office of Small Business Programs offers a variety of programs including a Mentor-Protégé program, the Technical Assistance Program, and the Indian Subcontracting Incentive Program. 

Mentor-Protégé Program
www.acq.osd.mil/osbp/mentor_protege/ 
This program was established to provide incentives for major DOD prime contractors (mentors) to help small disadvantaged businesses (protégés) develop technical and business capabilities. The goal of the program is to assist protégés to compete more successfully for prime and subcontract awards. Presently, over 250 firms are participating, including companies specializing in environmental remediation, engineering services and information technology, manufacturing, telecommunications, and health care. 

The Indian Incentive Program for Prime Contractors and Small Businesses
www.acq.osd.mil/osbp/programs/iip/index.htm 
The Indian Incentive Program requires contractors to use their best efforts to give Indian organizations and Indian-owned economic enterprises the maximum practicable opportunity to participate in subcontracts. The program provides contracting officers, subject to the terms and conditions of the contract, an incentive payment of 5 percent of the amount paid to subcontractors that are Indian organizations or Indian-owned economic enterprises.