Mission: 

To increase business opportunities for high technology small businesses in the Huntsville area.

Strategies:

• Promote increased small business participation in high technology contracts with local federal agencies.

• Promote increased small business subcontracting plan goals by prime contractors and encourage achievement of those plan goals.
  

• Provide a means for the exchange of capabilities information among member companies,
  

• Serve as a point of contact for promoting high technology small business opportunities, issues, legislation, regulations, and communications.
  

• Improve community awareness of capabilities of the Huntsville area high technology small businesses.

History

HASBAT, a non-profit organization, was founded in May of 1993 by local small technology companies to represent and promote the views and interests of small businesses in advanced technology and to support the development of opportunities within the federal, state, and/or local governments.