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Small business research programs: agencies broadly solicit ideas, but clearer guidance could improve DOD efforts : report to congressional committees.
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- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- United States. Government Accountability Office, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Department of Defense--Rules and practice--Evaluation.
- United States.
- Federal aid to research--United States.
- Federal aid to research.
- Research grants--United States.
- Research grants.
- Federal aid to small business--United States.
- Federal aid to small business.
- Technological innovations--United States.
- Technological innovations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (v, 47, pages) : color illustrations
- Other Title:
- Small business research programs: agencies broadly solicit ideas, but clearer guidance could improve Department of Defense efforts
- Agencies broadly solicit ideas, but clearer guidance could improve DOD efforts
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, DC : United States Government Accountability Office, 2024.
- Summary:
- To help drive economic growth, agencies provide SBIR and STTR awards to small businesses, which may face challenges funding research and development. For these awards, agencies release solicitations that include open or conventional topics. This report examines, among other things, the extent to which agencies issued open topic awards in FY 2022 and the status of DOD's FY 2023 open topic efforts. GAO is making a recommendation to DOD to revise its open topic guidance to clarify how open and conventional topics should differ.
- Contents:
- Background.
- Agencies used open topics to fund about 40 percent of FY 2022 awards, similar to the average in prior years.
- Open topics may promote competition, but other differences between topic types vary by agency.
- DOD released solicitations with open topics, which varied in specificity across components.
- Conclusions.
- Recommendation for executive action.
- Agency comments.
- Appendices.
- Notes:
- "September 2024."
- "GAO-24-107036."
- In scope of the U.S. Government Publishing Office Cataloging and Indexing Program (C&I) and Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP).
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF cover (GAO, viewed October 7, 2024).
- OCLC:
- 1458468957
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