Estimating the cost of administering the Department of Defense Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program / Somi Seong, Kenneth Horn, Bruce Held.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sŏng, So-mi.

Contributor:

Horn, Kenneth.

Held, Bruce.

Series:

Occasional paper (Rand Corporation)

Occasional paper

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Small business--United States--Finance.

Small business.

United States. Department of Defense. SBIR Program Office.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (31 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND Corp., 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Congress is in the process of reauthorizing the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, which expires in 2008. One issue being considered in the reauthorization is whether to allow partial use of SBIR set-asides for SBIR program administration costs and, if so, at what levels. Currently, the use of SBIR funds to administer the SBIR program is prohibited, and SBIR administration must be funded from other sources. The authors estimate that the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) spends, on average, an additional 6 percent on top of the SBIR set-asides to administer its SBIR program. That

Contents:

Cover; Preface; Contents; Figure and Tables; Summary; Abbreviations; Chapter One - Introduction; Purpose of the Study; Chapter Two - Administering the U.S. Department of Defense Small Business Innovation Research Program; Three Layers of Small Business Innovation Research Program Administration; Chapter Three - Estimating the Cost of Administering the U.S. Department of Defense Small Business Innovation Research Program; Approaches; Collection of Labor Costs; Estimating the Administrative Costs; Chapter Four - Administrative Costs in Comparable R&D Programs; Chapter Five - Concluding Remarks

Appendix - Small Business Innovation Research ProgramBibliography

Notes:

"Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Approved for public release; distribution unlimited."

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-281-43016-1

9786611430160

OCLC:

437212078