SBA has posted a free online course called, The HUBZone Primer.” The HUBZone program is designed to help small businesses ‐‐in certain urban, rural, BRAC, Indian reservation, and difficult development areas outside the U.S. mainland – to gain access to federal procurement opportunities. HUBZone areas are typically areas of low median household incomes or high unemployment, or both. There are some 6,000 small firms certified in the HUBZone program.