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Show May F The Small Business Office at Hill has one overriding mission: to help small, smalldisadvantaged, businesses get conminority and woman-owne- d tracts at Ogden Air Logistics Center. Businesses in these catagories have special needs and Hill's Small Business Office is geared to helping fulfill those needs. Brent L. Bradbury is the new director of the Small Business Office. He replaces Patricia Lindsay, who recently retired. "I'm delighted to be in a position to help small businesses get contracts from Ogden ALC," Bradbury said. "My objective is to manage a program that is sensitive to the overall Air Force mission, ' while helping as many small, businesses smalldisadvantaged and woman-owne- d : well-balanc- ed 5, 1994 7 Hilltop Times the Dp) "The Small Business Office will continue to have a very aggressive outreach to the small and smalldisadvantaged business community. I'm optimistic that this year's program will even exceed '93 's," Bradbury said. The Small Business Office staff is split into two areas of emphasis: advising existing small, smalldisbusinessadvantaged, minority and woman-owne- d es; while the other part of the staff concentrates on developing new small business sources. Ongoing programs , v Vicki Stevens is a new small business adviser who oversees the smalldisadvantaged business program as well as 8(a) awards, which is a program set up to help minority contractors bid for work at government installations. The 8(a) contracts can be contracts where the bid process is bypassed. ' if Keller processes loan agreements and Debbie "s,l'l manages the bid board that provides information to contractors on acquisitions over $5,000. Sandy Ropelato and Carol Southworth are also Debbie Keller Carol Southworth small business advisers. Their duties include consulting small, smalldisadvantaged, minority and as possible." woman-owne- d businesses to ensure that they are Hill's Small Business Office has been very suc- aware of how to do business with the government cessful in the past. Through the combined efforts and are familiar with and procegovernment policies of those in the Small Business Office and other dures. also are with charged They making sure the product centers at Hill, in 1993 and 1994 some im- acquisitions awarded at Hill comply with congrespressive statistics have been generated by contracts sional and socioeconomic objectives. awarded by Ogden ALC: D To small businesses: In 1993, $241.7 million; Source thus far in 1994, $62.3 million has been awarded. The source development segment of the team foTo small, disadvantaged businesses: In 1993, cuses primarily on qualifying new sources and help, $44.1 million; thus far in 1994, $11.5 million has been ing both large and small businesses of all types become source approved so they can win a bigger awarded. Woman-owne- d businesses: In 1993 $6.5 mil- share of the work available at Hill AFB. Phillip Edmunds, Ferrel Glines and Barry Nielson lion; thus far in 1994, $3.4 million has been awarded. oversee the source development program. They are responsible for taking items that lack competition and making them competitive. Their work includes sole-sour- ft f 'll V " . 111. Sandra Ropelato Vicki Stevens V This of fice is specifically geared toward helping small, smalldisadvan taged, women-owneand minority . development d businesses. ce nA Brent L. Bradbury conducting market surveys, managing the reverse engineering program and processing source proval requests. They also attend vendor fairs, give speeches on source development and teach contractors how to do business with the government. The Small Business Office is located in the new Bldg. 1289, southeast annex. The office 7 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The phone numfrom hours are ber of information on source development is 3 and small business program advisers can be reached at X 777-999- Barry Nielson Phillip Edmunds Farrel Glines 777-414- John Stallmgs, EM, receives award for individual excellence At Hill, Stallings designed and carried out several Directorate programs which encouraged an open relationship bewith the Environmental Management tween the base and the regulators, reduced potento been selected gat Ogden Air Logistics Center, has teceive the 1993 Air Force Environmental Compl- tial .violations, formulated a team concept among those involved in compliance and saved Air Force iance Award for Individual Excellence. d dollars. Materiel Stallings represented the Air Force John was an invaluable asset to Hill because of because of his outstanding record in water the experience he gained when working for the reguIquality management at Hill. lators and industry," said Lynn Hill, chief of the EnI Stallings, now working for the Air Force in Ariz., received his award from the Air Force vironmental Compliance Division. "He knew what fchief of Staff at a luncheon in Washington D.C. on was necessary to stay in compliance and made sure that Hill's standards consistently exceeded those April 22. e V'V" Vj I The veteran of 29 years in environmental comph-fancquirements." comchemi-froand reroute a did and He in of science designed plans bachelor degree received a in of stormwater discharge lines at the base. Brizham Youne University e, .... bination r for compliance monitor11963; In 1986, he took over responsiDiuues lor waw The action reduced liability dollars. Iquality that included wastewater and hazardous ing and saved sampling an4 analysis D He completed a survey of the Air astewal management atHill AFB.inMn p. John H. Stallings, formerly a compliance engineer Com-fman- 4 Tuc-fso- n, m Force-owne- d Kay's Creek Stormwater Line that identified 21 ille- -, gal connections to the line. He also designed site specific wastewater treat-ment systems for three critical processes. XX He implemented a program to split all sample with regulators to validate results so the regulators can do their own tests. ; "John could be counted on to do what had to be done without waiting for someone to tell him," said: Hill. "He knew what needed to be done and went; out and did it. His wealth of knowledge and ex-- l perience made him the 'answer man' for other pro--; grams on the base." Stallings spent the first 15 years of his career! working with state regulatory agencies in Illinois,! Oklahoma and Idaho. From 1965 to 1971, he worked with the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency; After that he was employed by the Oklahoma Air Pollution Control Service, followed by the Idaho Di- vision of Environmental Quality!, From Corhe worked in private industry at poration. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in Utah, Idaho, Oklahoma and Illinois. t 1980-1985- ,' Kerr-McGe- A.' 't&IU&f "Wlint do vou mean. a low grade infection?!' e ... :4 HA Son, your mother and I think H time you know the truth about youraelf. You 're adopted. 3. A f"; !)'' mm "You . wont believe what they did with It. Carl. They tied It to the radio antenna of a f7 Ford. |