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steve82
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<p>I posted this in M&L. rather than the overtly political thread because a lot of us who actually work for NASA and government contractors hang out here. A court just overturned the DOD rule that 5% of contracting dollars have to go to minority contractors:</p><p>http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/081106/defense_contracts_minority_firms.html?.v=1</p><p>This could have far-reaching implications. All NASA contracts have a certain percentage set aside for special small, disadvantaged, women-owned, or minority contractors. On a number of occasions, I've seen people (including myself!) who worked for well-integrated diverse established primes be forced to leave their employer and perform the same job working for a minority small disadvantaged business. This is just to meet a government quota and has little to do with accomplishing real social change because the primes have already done it. In most cases it costs the government a lot more to do business this way. The companies are often shells or minority in name only, with a figurehead president who is more often than not the wife of the white male who started the business. Does anyone else have experience dealing with these entities?</p><p> </p>