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The Veterans’ Entrepreneurship Task Force (formerly Task Force) was organized in early 1999 to advocate for the development and passage of Public Law 106-50, the Veterans’ Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development Act of 1999. With this act, Congress recognized the United States must provide additional assistance to veterans, particularly service-disabled veterans, with forming and expanding their own small businesses, thereby assisting them to realize the American dream they fought so hard to protect.
VET-FORCE is composed of over 200 organizations and affiliates representing thousands of veterans throughout the United States, a high percentage of which are small business owners. VET-FORCE has made it their mission to monitor the implementation of the programs, agencies, and organizations referenced under the law in order to present a strong unified veterans’s voice for virtually all of the major veterans and military groups, as well as veteran entrepreneurs, and to advocate for opportunities for veterans (particularly disabled veterans) seeking assistance to succeed in small business and self-employment.

Though Public Law 106-50 did much to establish the infrastructure and goals for federal and prime contracting for veterans and service-disabled veterans, evidence shows the agencies did little to get contracts to veterans. With no accountability required, government agencies and especially their prime contractors failed to ever meet the minimum 3% goals for service-disabled veteran business owners.

For more information visit vet-force.org

Posted on January 8th, 2008 by admin
Filed under: Veterans Legislation