Congress Should Move to Establish and Strengthen a Permanent SBIR Authority

摘要

Victory in war is not always guaranteed to the biggest force, but more often it's the military with more innovative capabilities and a commitment to utilizing modern technologies. Recent advancements by near-peer competitors, such as Russia and China, have called for historic funding levels for Pentagon research, development, test and evaluation. President Joe Biden's budget request for fiscal year 2022 includes the largest ever funding for RDT&E at $ 112 billion, and, based on the House and Senate Armed Services Committees markups of the National Defense Authorization Act, that number is certain to grow by several billion dollars.