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Thursday, June 10, 2010
A man named "Valdez" is reaching to U.S. small businesses with but one simple request: Stop the oil leak!
Yes, DSJ has learned that the Department of Energy's Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization and
the NAVAIR Systems Command's Office of Small Business have reached out to America's miltiary industrial complex with a request
for them to "Share Your Ideas to Stop the Oil Spill." Says the call to arms:
Good afternoon,
The Department
of Energy is working tirelessly to address the oil spill in the Gulf. At the request of President Obama, Secretary Chu traveled
down to Houston to work closely with a team of top scientists from academia and the U.S. government, with support from more
than 200 personnel from DOE's national laboratories, to analyze the response efforts and recommend additional options for
stopping the leaking oil.
We'd like you to share your ideas on how to stop or contain the oil spill and mitigate
its impact on the environment. The Deepwater Horizon Response has an online form (an Alternative Technology Response Form)
available to collect your suggestions here: http://www.horizonedocs.com/artform.php
As small business owners, you know that innovation comes from many sources. We need to tap into the spirit
of American entrepreneurship to learn as much as possible. So far over 20,000 ideas have been sent to BP since the Gulf of
Mexico incident from oil industry experts, small businesses, and everyday Americans.
The online form, entitled
"Alternative Technology Response," collects detailed information about your idea, including the materials, equipment
and resources required to put your idea into action. Your idea, once you fill out the form, will go to a team of 30 technical
and operational BP personnel for evaluation
We encourage you to be part of the solution and submit any
ideas you have to the Deepwater Horizon Response, and to share this message with others who might be able to help. For more
information on the Deepwater Horizon Response suggestion form, visit this link.
Thank you,Bill Valdez, Acting DirectorOffice of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization
Sunday, June 6, 2010
Squeezing Military Service budgets for efficiencies - Will it mean more or less for programs?Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates has news for those in the defense industry and Congress who believe that -- after
its opening salvo last year -- the Obama Administration might back off in its efforts to curtail defense spending by cutting
defense programs. The news came Friday, when the Pentagon announcedthat the Military Services and Defense Agencies would have to take "deliberate and aggressive measures to protect critical
current and future capabilities" by tightening their belts considerably in their pending POM submittals -- due on 30
July. Just how considerably was spelled out in a companion Fact Sheet, which outlines the Pentagon's objective to save $101.9 billion over the Future Years Defense Plan (FYDP) through cuts that
will, according to DEPSECDEF Bill Lynn, necessarily involve program kills. "To get $100 billion, you're going
to have to identify lower-priority programs that are not going to be part of future budgets," adding "nothing is
off the table." To be specific, the Secretary is asking the Army, Air Force and Navy Departments to identify $2
billion each in efficiency savings in overhead, support and non-mission areas that can be cut in FY12, $3 billion in FY13,
$5.3 billion in FY14, $8 billion in FY15 and $10 billion in FY16. The Military Services, according to Lynn, would
be able to transfer the savings to their forces and modernization efforts.
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