
Kevin Berry
8:05 - 8:38
"You can see that there's about 8,000 to 9,000 based in Alaska. But the regional corporations employ about 50,000 people worldwide."
“You can see that there's about 8,000 to 9,000 based in Alaska. But the regional corporations employ about 50,000 people worldwide.”
I— people that are really deep into their own organizations will tell you that that's a really complicated question because there's lots of subsidiaries and different holdings. What I'm showing here is where employees of ANCSA corporations and their subsidiaries are based. And I think this is a good kind of approximation of where this work is happening. You can see that there's about 8,000 to 9,000 based in Alaska. But the regional corporations employ about 50,000 people worldwide.
A freeze on new applications to the federal 8(a) contracting program threatens future revenue for Alaska Native corporations that generated $9 billion in federal work in 2022 and returned $300 million to shareholders last year.

The Small Business Administration has stopped processing new 8(a) applications for Alaska Native corporation subsidiaries, blocking future contracting access as the administration reviews federal procurement practices.
