Sep 2, 2026 · 18 min · 9 segments
In this episode, we unpack two proposed rules from the Small Business Administration (SBA) that could qualify companies with up to half a billion dollars in annual revenue as small businesses. The…
Welcome to the Farm Beyond podcast hosted by the Contracts and Fiscal Law Department at the Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School.
The podcast about the ever-changing landscape of federal acquisition and fiscal law.
So on August 20th, SBA published two proposed rules that together would rewrite how the federal government decides who counts as a small business.
And the headline number that's been bouncing around the government contracts bar is this.
Under the proposal, a company with up to half a billion dollars in annual revenue could be a small business.
So we're going to start from the foundations, what a size standard is, what a size standard even is, where it comes from, how it's measured, and then build up to what SBA has actually proposed and why practitioners are arguing about it.
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Welcome to the Farm Beyond podcast hosted by the Contracts and Fiscal Law Department at the Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School.
The podcast about the ever-changing landscape of federal acquisition and fiscal law.
So on August 20th, SBA published two proposed rules that together would rewrite how the federal government decides who counts as a small business.
And the headline number that's been bouncing around the government contracts bar is this.
Under the proposal, a company with up to half a billion dollars in annual revenue could be a small business.
So we're going to start from the foundations, what a size standard is, what a size standard even is, where it comes from, how it's measured, and then build up to what SBA has actually proposed and why practitioners are arguing about it.
