WOMAN-OWNED SMALL BUSINESS CONFERENCE SPONSORED BY DOD AND PRIME CONTRACTORS DOD sponsored Woman-Owned Small Manufacturing Business (WOSMC) Conference will be held June 16-17, 1999 at the Tampa Convention Center, Tampa, FL. The Conference and Trade Fair is intended to promote the small women-owned manufacturing business communmity and small women-owned research and development firms. Woman-owned small business firms are encourgaed to attend. Large and small firms interested in brodening your supplier base are also encouraged to attend. This event is designed to help women-owned manufacturing concerns partcipate in procurement opportunities provided by some of the nation's largest organizations. If you would like to do business or do more business with federal, state and local governments, as well as major corporations, either as a prime contractor or as a subcontractor, then you should join us at the trade fair. This will be a large event. 200 to 400 exhibitors from the southeastern United States are anticipated. Firms from other areas of the country are also welcome. Sponsors include the Department of Defense, DoD Southeastern Small Business Council, University of South Florida, Defense Contract Management Command, US Special Operations Command, Honeywell, Raytheon, Boeing, Lucent Technologies, and many others. The WOSMC Conference is scheduled for June 16, 1999 8:00AM-5:00PM, with a trade fair scheduled for June 17, 1999 8:30AM-5:00PM. Both events will be held at the beautiful, waterfront Tampa Convention Center. Accomodations are available at the Hyatt Regency Tampa at Tampa City Center, 813-225-1234 and Wyndham Harbor Island, 813-229-5000. Contact Chene Expositions, 727-577-1168 for exhibitor information and USF/Small Business Development Center, 813-974-5020 for registration information or check out the website for further details. WEB: DoD Southeast Region Small Business Council, http://www.ecrc.gatech.edu/wosmc99. E-MAIL: Deputy Director, SADBU, US Special Operations Command, perak@socom.mil. Posted 04/27/99 (W-SN325064).

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