99 -- TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT OF SMALL BUSINESSES IN ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES (TADSBAT) NASA Invites All Small Businesses, Small Disadvantaged Businesses, Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority Institutions to a Course on Winning NASA Contracts NASA has designed a course focusing on areas of business management that are critical for success in competing for winning NASA contracts and subcontracts. The NASA course is known as Training and Development of Small Businesses in Advanced Technologies (TADSBAT). The Internet Home Page for the NASA Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization contains additional information on this program at: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/codeK or http://www.mta-inc.com BACKGROUND: NASA's Fiscal Year 1990 Appropriations Bill, Public Law 101-144 and its amended version Public Law 101-507, included a requirement that the Agency annually award at least eight percent of the total value of its contracts and subcontracts to Small Disadvantaged Businesses (SDB's). In the legislation, the SDB definition was expanded to include small women-owned businesses, Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority Institutions (e.g. Tribal College and Hispanic Serving Institutions). The TADSBAT course was created to increase the business management capabilities of these firms and institutions so that they would successfully compete for and win NASA business. Since 1994, NASA has provided this training to over 200 businesses with overwhelming success. The course is offered FREE (no registration fee). ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS: Participation in the 1999 training has been expanded to include all small businesses along with Small Disadvantaged Businesses (including women-owned), Historically Black College and Universities and Minority Institutions that possess technical capabilities related to NASA's mission and the four strategic enterprises as discussed in NASA's strategic plan at: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/nsp/cover.html BASIC COURSE: Companies must have been in business for no less than 2 years. Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority Institutions are also eligible. Locations and dates are: Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA March 3-5, 1999 Kennedy Space Center Cape Canaveral, FL July 20-22, 1999 Tennessee State University Nashville, TN September 21-23, 1999 ADVANCED COURSE: Companies must have completed the Basic TADSBAT Course or have been in business for no less than 5 years. Location and date is: Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL April 27-29, 1999 All classes are limited to 50 participants. SDBs, SBs or HBCUs interested in Winning NASA Contracts should contact MTA, Incorporated at 688 Discovery Drive, Huntsville, Alabama 35806. Telephone: 1-800-933-8483 or email: TADSBAT@mta-inc.com. WEB: Click here for the latest information about this notice, http://nais.nasa.gov/EPS/GSFC/date.html#TADSBAT1999-1. E-MAIL: Yvonne Sanders, TADSBAT@mta-inc.com. Posted 02/22/99 (D-SN300748).

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