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The US Army Engineering and support

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center . Huntsville welcomed more than

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100 business representatives to its

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Small business Industry Day on October

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23rd at the US Space and Rocket

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Center's Davidson Center for Space

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Exploration . The event provided

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attendees with updates on Huntsville

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Center program and project outlooks for

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fiscal year 2025 .

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Uh The workload is growing right ? Uh

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The number of actions we're doing the

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dollar amounts . Um You know , the

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things that our stakeholders need

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continue to grow and so we need all of

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your help to help deliver that after

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briefings by Huntsville Center

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leadership and subject matter experts .

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Attendees met with project development

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teams to clarify requirements and

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discuss future projects requiring

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contract capabilities . The event also

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promoted interaction among business

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representatives , encouraging

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collaboration to support the center's

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programs and projects around the world .

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Yes . The small business event here has

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been spectacular for networking . I'm a

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proposal company . We work proposals

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and capture , we've integrated A I into

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our processes so we can do things for

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about half the price . We think that

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has great applicability for small

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businesses . Other organizations were

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on hand , providing support to small

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business and assist attendees in

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contract bid processes . In

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fiscal year 2024 Huntsville Center's

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projects delivered more than $1 billion

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to small businesses . Nicole Boone .

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Huntsville Center Office of small

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business programs . Chief said the

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annual event optimizes small business

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opportunities to support the center's

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many programs while also strengthening

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the nation's economic development .

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When we give award contract of dollars

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to small businesses that goes directly

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to the communities that need them the

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most . We have socio-economic

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subcategories under our overall small

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business umbrella . Uh service ,

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disabled vets , woman owned small

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businesses , hub zones , major issues

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um where we are allowing , we're

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putting money back into the communities

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where they're needed the most that

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helps our nation .