Excerpt from The Impact of Hanscom Air Force Base Upon Small Business in the New England Region: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Government Programs of the Committee on Small Business; House of Representatives One Hundred Fourth Congress First Session; Bedford, Ma, February 13, 1995 Just very briefly, the purpose of this hearing is to examine the impact of Hanscom Air Force Base upon local and regional small business. This is not a brac hearing. The Small Business Sub committee on Government Programs has jurisdiction over the Small Business Act and is designed to assist small business in their dealings with Federal Government contracts. Today's finding will be shared with the Full Small Business Committee. The transcript of todays hearing will also be available for any future use on the importance of Hanscom Air Force Base to the people of New England. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.