An Assessment of the Small Business Innovation Research Program at the Department of Defense

The SBIR program allocates 2.5 percent of 11 federal agencies' extramural R&D budgets to fund R&D projects by small businesses, providing approximately $2 billion annually in competitive awards. At the request of Congress, the National Academies conducted a comprehensive study of how the SBIR program has stimulated technological innovation and used small businesses to meet federal research and development needs. Drawing substantially on new data collection, this book examines the SBIR program at the Department of Defense and makes recommendations for improvements. Separate reports will assess the SBIR program at NSF, NIH, DOE, and NASA, respectively, along with a comprehensive report on the entire program.Committee for Capitalizing on Science, Technology, and Innovation: An Assessment of the Small Business Innovation Research Program Staff is the author of 'An Assessment of the Small Business Innovation Research Program at the Department of Defense', published 2009 under ISBN 9780309109475 and ISBN 0309109477.