Prison Industry Reform favors private sector; NIMA commemorates Lewis and Clark bicentennial and SBA releases small business size standards.

The bill, H.R. 4546, changes the Defense Authorization bill as it applies to FPI provision of services to Department of Defense (DOD) agencies. It prohibits FPI from being engaged in any activity that would provide prisoners access to classified data, geographic data regarding the location of surface or subsurface infrastructure for water, electrical or communications or gas, bulk petroleum or other products, commodities or utilities, or personal information about individual private citizens’ real property.