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DIA is first in all-source defense intelligence to prevent strategic surprise and deliver a decision advantage to warfighters, defense planners, and policymakers. We deploy globally alongside warfighters and interagency partners to defend America's national security interests.
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Small Business Guide
Small Disadvantages Businesses (SBD)
A SDB concern means a small business concern that is at least 51 percent unconditionally owned by one or more individuals who are both socially and economically disadvantaged or a publicly owned concern that has 51 percent of its stock owned by such individuals and that has its management and daily business controlled by one or more socially and economically disadvantaged individuals. Individual groups falling into this category are:
- Black Americans
- Hispanic Americans
- Native Americans
- Asian-Pacific Americans
- Subcontinent-Asian Americans
This page was last updated January 25, 2013.