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Suddenly, information about whether small businesses are actually small has gone missing from the Defense Department's Central Contractor Registry. Or so says the American Small Business League. At about 3 p.m. Pacific time Tuesday, employees of the organization were using the registry (specifically, "compiling information for an investigative report by a television network," they say) when key data suddenly disappeared. In its place was the following message: "A firm's actual revenues and number of
employees are not releasable under the Freedom of Information Act." Interesting, especially since this story emerges at a time of a lot of angst over recent federal efforts to tighten up the process of certifying companies as small businesses for contracting purposes.