DoD SBIR Program Extended for One Year
Oct 14, 2009
Last week the House and Senate Armed Service Committees reached agreement on the conference report to the Fiscal Year 2010 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).  Through vast consolidation and compromises, the Department of Defense(DoD) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Programs have been reauthorized for another year. 

The conference report, containing more than 1,400 pages, sets aside two pages of language that in essence reauthorizes the DoD SBIR and STTR programs for one year ending September 30, 2010, and extending the Commercialization Pilot Program (CPP) for the same period.

This legislation has no effect on the other ten agency SBIR/STTR programs that will expire on October 31, 2009 unless extended by another Continuing Resolution or reauthorized by Congress.

The NDAA should come to the floor of both bodies quickly for a vote. While there are some provisions that are controversial and a few that President Obama did not want, the bill's passage and the President's signing, although likely, will not be a slam dunk.

To find out more information about NSBA's stance on SBIR Program click here.

 

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