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    {"title" :"Announcing FBOpen: Government Opportunities Made Easier","summary" : "Today we’re announcing our first product launch: FBOpen, a set of open-source tools to help small businesses search for opportunities to work with the U.S. government. On the surface, FBOpen is a website: fbopen.gsa.gov is a simple, Google-style page where you can search available federal contracts and grants. We’ve used the latest in","date" : "2014-04-14T13:00:55-04:00","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"alison-rowland" : "Alison Rowland","aaron-snow" : "Aaron Snow"},"topics" : {
        
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