This panel will focus on the barriers for small businesses in contracting with the US DOE. In 2014, the US DOE has a prime small business goal of 6.59% and attaining this goal will be challenging. This panel will interact extensively with the audience in discussing methods to achieve this goal and barriers that need to be mitigated. All WM2014 Exhibitors can attend this session without a WM technical registration badge as a conference service.

Panelists include: Jack Surash, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Acquisition and Project Management, US DOE; John D. Hale lll, Director, Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization, US DOE; Greg Gonzales, Small Business Program Manager, NNSA, Albuquerque Complex; Nick Stanisich, CEO, Portage, Inc; Patricia Holsapple, CEO, Swift and Staley, Inc.; Chris Honkomp, Director of Procurement Planning, US DOE; and John Evett, Small Business Program Manager, Office of Environmental Management, US DOE.