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ASL is a certified participant of the U.S. Small Business Administration's 8(a) Program, which authorizes Federal Agencies to sole-source contracts to ASL. Similarly, the U.S. Department of Energy's National Laboratories are authorized by the Secretary of Energy to make sole-ssource contract awards to 8(a)-certified businesses. The Small Business Administration has approved ASL  for contract awards under the following Standard Industrial Classification Codes:
 
7371  Computer Programming Services
7379   Computer Related Services, Not Elsewhere Classified
8711   Engineering Services (Primary)
8731   Commercial Physics and Biological Research
8732   Commercial, Economic, Sociological, Educational Research
8733   Testing Laboratories
8741   Management Services
8742   Management Consulting Services
8743   Public Relations Services
8744   Facilities Support Management Services
8748   Business Consulting Services, Not Elsewhere Classified

 

7371 Computer Programming Services
Establishments primarily engaged in providing computer programming services on a contract or fee basis. Establishments of this industry perform a variety of additional services, such as computer software design and analysis; modifications of custom software; and training in the use of custom software.
Applications software programming, custom 
Computer code authors
Computer programming services
Computer programs or systems software development, custom
Computer software systems analysis and design, custom
Computer software writers, free-lance
Programming services, computer custom
Software programming, custom
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7379 Computer Related Services, Not Elsewhere Classified
Establishments primarily engaged in supplying computer related services, not elsewhere classified. Computer consultants operating on a contract or fee basis are classified in this industry. Establishments primarily engaged in producing prepackaged software are classified in Industry 7372; and those engaged in offering data processing courses or training in computer programming and in computer and computer peripheral equipment operation, repair, and maintenance are classified in Industry 8243.
Computer consultants
Data base developers
Data processing consultants
Disk and diskette conversion services
Disk and diskette re-certification services
Requirements analysis, computer hardware
Tape re-certification service
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8711 Engineering Services
Establishments primarily engaged in providing professional engineering services. Establishments primarily providing and supervising their own engineering staff on temporary contract to other firms are included in this industry. Establishments providing engineering personnel, but not general supervision, are classified in Industry 7363. Establishments primarily engaged in providing architectural engineering services are classified in Industry 8712, and those providing photogrammetric engineering services are classified in Industry 8713.
Designing ship, boat, and machine
Engineering services: industrial, civil, electrical, mechanical
Machine tool designers
Marine engineering services
Petroleum engineering services
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8731 Commercial Physical and Biological Research
Establishments primarily engaged in commercial physical and biological research and development on a contract or fee basis. Noncommercial research establishments funded by endowments, grants, or contributions are classified in Industry 8733. Separate establishments of aircraft, guided missile, or spacecraft manufacturers primarily engaged in research and development on these products are classified in Manufacturing, Major Group 37.
Agricultural research,
Biological research commercial
Chemical laboratories, commercial research except testing
Engineering laboratories, commercial research: except testing
Food research commercial
Industrial laboratories commercial research: except testing
Physical research commercial
Research and development physical and biological: commercial
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8732 Commercial Economic, Sociological, and Educational Research
Establishments primarily engaged in performing commercial business, marketing, opinion, and other economic, sociological, and educational research on a contract or fee basis. Noncommercial economic, sociological, and educational research establishments funded from endowments, grants, or contributions are classified in Industry 8733.
Business economists, commercial
Business research commercial
Economic research,
Educational research,
Market research commercial
Opinion research commercial
Research economic, sociological and educational-commercial
Sociological research commercial
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8733 Noncommercial Research Organizations
Establishments primarily engaged in performing noncommercial research into and dissemination of, information for public health, education, or general welfare. Establishments included here operate primarily on funds from endowments, contributions, and grants. The research is frequently contracted out and funded by these establishments. Establishments primarily engaged in commercial physical and biological research are classified in Industry 8731, and those engaged in commercial economic, sociological, and educational research are classified in Industry 8732.
Archeological expeditions 
Biological research noncommercial
Economic research:
Educational research noncommercial
Medical research noncommercial
Physical research,
Research noncommercial
Scientific research noncommercial
Sociological research noncommercial
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8741 Management Services
Establishments primarily engaged in furnishing general or specialized management services on a day to day basis and on a contract or fee basis. Establishments in this industry do not provide operating staff. Management and operation of a business, where operating staff as well as management is provided, is classified according to the activity of the establishment managed.
Administrative management services
Business management services
Circuit management services for motion picture theaters
Construction management
Motel management services
Office management services
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8742 Management Consulting Services
Establishments primarily engaged in furnishing operating counsel and assistance to managements of private, nonprofit, and public organizations. These establishments generally perform a variety of activities, such as strategic and organizational planning; financial planning and budgeting; marketing objectives and policies; information systems planning, evaluation and selection; human resource policies and practices planning; and production scheduling and control planning. These establishments are characterized by the breadth and scope of the problems they address.
Administrative management consultants
General management consultants
Human resource consultants
Management engineering consultants
Management information systems consultants
Manufacturing management consultants
Marketing consultants
Operations research consultants
Personnel management consultants, except employment service
Physical distribution consultants
Site location consultants
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8743 Public Relations Services
Establishments primarily engaged in the preparation of materials, written or spoken, which are designed to influence the general public or other groups in promoting the interests of their clients.
Lobbyists
Public relations services
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8744 Facilities Support Management Services
Establishments primarily engaged in furnishing personnel to perform a range of services in support of the operations of other establishments or in providing a number of different continuing services, on a contract or fee basis, within another establishment. Included in the industry are establishments primarily engaged in the private operation of jails and adult correctional facilities, whether or not providing both management and supporting staff. Establishments primarily engaged in operating juvenile correctional homes are classified in Industry 8361. Establishments which provide management and staff to operate a business are classified according to the type of activity of the business. Establishments primarily providing one specialized service, such as janitorial services or guard services, are classified in the specialized industry. Janitorial services are classified in Industry 7349, and guard services are classified in Industry 7381. Establishments primarily engaged in providing management services only, except agricultural, are classified in Industry 8741. Computer facilities management services are classified in Industry 7376. Establishments primarily supplying temporary or continuing help are classified in Industry 7363. Establishments primarily engaged in providing temporary or continuing help for agricultural purposes and agricultural management services are classified in Agriculture, Industry Group 076.
Base maintenance (providing personnel on continuing basis)
Correctional facilities, adult: privately operated
Facilities management, except computer
Facilities support services, except computer
Jails, privately operated
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8748 Business Consulting Services, Not Elsewhere Classified
Establishments primarily engaged in furnishing business consulting services, not elsewhere classified, on a contract or fee basis.
Agricultural consulting
City planners, except professional engineering
Economic consulting
Educational consulting, except management
Industrial development planning service, commercial
Radio consultants
Systems engineering consulting, except professional engineering or
Test development and evaluation service, educational or personnel
Testing services, educational or personnel
Traffic consultants
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