Now more than ever before, there is a critical need to nurture strong relationships between Service Disabled Veteran Enterprises (SDVE) federal, state and local governments and majority businesses to stimulate economic growth. SDV/CROP has been the viable interface needed to stimulate and facilitate a positive process.

SDV/CROP established the Association for Service Disabled Veterans, (ASDV), in 1982, dedicated to activities that promote and facilitate the implementation of SDVE purchasing by government and corporations. ASDV has two primary missions: To provide public and private organizations with information on qualified and qualifiable SDVE businesses and to open organization purchasing doors for SDV business persons, giving them the opportunity to sell goods and services.

The ASDV mission reflects a basic philosophy of encouragement and expansion of opportunity to those persons that have specifically and individually sacrificed for the security and prosperity of the nation. ASDV's intent is to stimulate economic growth; to develop enterprises which can provide useful goods and services at competitive prices, create employment for members of the service disabled veteran underemployed groups and bring service disabled veteran owned enterprises into the mainstream of the economy.