Article Photos: Looming federal cuts big risk to small companies



  In this Monday, Oct. 15, 2012, photo, Amber Peebles, a co-owner of Athena Construction Group, poses for a portrait at her office in Dumfries, Va. Athena Construction Group, has been a contractor and subcontractor on federal construction projects since 2009. The company gets 85 percent of their revenue from the government doing everything from carpentry work to helping build hospitals for the Veterans Administration. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

In this Monday, Oct. 15, 2012, photo, Amber Peebles, a co-owner of Athena Construction Group, poses for a portrait at her office in Dumfries, Va. Athena Construction Group, has been a contractor and subcontractor on federal construction projects since 2009. The company gets 85 percent of their revenue from the government doing everything from carpentry work to helping build hospitals for the Veterans Administration. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)