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Amid a shrinking number of small businesses participating in the defense industrial base, the Defense Department is reaching out for input from small businesses and other industry experts on barriers these companies face in contracting with the Pentagon. In the past decade there has been a more than 40 percent decrease in the number of small companies in the defense industrial base, DoD said in a Sept. 8 posting in the Federal Register. Citing a survey by the National Defense…
