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SOCOM Official Details Bolstered Opportunities To Work With Small Businesses

SOCOM Official Details Bolstered Opportunities To Work With Small Businesses
A Special Operations Weather Technician sends intelligence to the Reconnaissance Operations Center during the Marine Corps’ Reconnaissance Team Leader Course's final exercise, Oct. 31, 2017, at Bellows Air Force Base, Hawaii. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Ryan Conroy)

U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) is looking to bolster partnerships with small businesses on a range of new capability initiatives, from next-generation mobility to human performance optimization, citing increasing opportunities to work with the SOFWERX innovation hub. After spending $1 billion in FY ‘20 on small business contracts, Bill Innes, SOCOM’s deputy director for acquisition, said Monday the command is on pace to best that figure this year. “The products that we supply, the [Special Operations Forces]-peculiar products and services…

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