111th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 4053 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES AN ACT To reauthorize and improve the SBIR and STTR programs, and for other purposes.
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Short title
This Act may be cited as the SBIR/STTR Reauthorization Act of 2010.
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Table of contents
The table of contents for this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title. Sec. 2. Table of contents. Sec. 3. Definitions. TITLE I—Reauthorization of the SBIR and STTR programs Sec. 101. Extension of termination dates. Sec. 102. Status of the Office of Technology. Sec. 103. SBIR allocation increase. Sec. 104. STTR allocation increase. Sec. 105. SBIR and STTR award levels. Sec. 106. Agency and program flexibility. Sec. 107. Elimination of Phase II invitations. Sec. 108. Participation by firms with substantial investment from multiple venture capital operating companies in a portion of the SBIR program. Sec. 109. SBIR and STTR special acquisition preference. Sec. 110. Collaborating with Federal laboratories and research and development centers. Sec. 111. Notice requirement. Sec. 112. Express authority for an agency to award sequential Phase II awards for SBIR or STTR funded projects. TITLE II—Outreach and commercialization initiatives Sec. 201. Rural and State outreach. Sec. 202. SBIR–STEM Workforce Development Grant Pilot Program. Sec. 203. Technical assistance for awardees. Sec. 204. Commercialization Readiness Program at Department of Defense. Sec. 205. Commercialization Readiness Pilot Program for civilian agencies. Sec. 206. Accelerating cures. Sec. 207. Federal agency engagement with SBIR and STTR awardees that have been awarded multiple Phase I awards but have not been awarded Phase II awards. Sec. 208. Clarifying the definition of Phase III. Sec. 209. Shortened period for final decisions on proposals and applications. TITLE III—Oversight and evaluation Sec. 301. Streamlining annual evaluation requirements. Sec. 302. Data collection from agencies for SBIR. Sec. 303. Data collection from agencies for STTR. Sec. 304. Public database. Sec. 305. Government database. Sec. 306. Accuracy in funding base calculations. Sec. 307. Continued evaluation by the National Academy of Sciences. Sec. 308. Technology insertion reporting requirements. Sec. 309. Intellectual property protections. Sec. 310. Obtaining consent from SBIR and STTR applicants to release contact information to economic development organizations. Sec. 311. Pilot to allow funding for administrative, oversight, and contract processing costs. Sec. 312. GAO study with respect to venture capital operating company involvement. Sec. 313. Reducing vulnerability of SBIR and STTR programs to fraud, waste, and abuse. Sec. 314. Interagency policy committee. TITLE IV—Policy directives Sec. 401. Conforming amendments to the SBIR and the STTR Policy Directives. TITLE V—Other provisions Sec. 501. Research topics and program diversification. Sec. 502. Report on SBIR and STTR program goals. Sec. 503. Competitive selection procedures for SBIR and STTR programs.
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Definitions
In this Act— (1)the terms Administration and Administrator mean the Small Business Administration and the Administrator thereof, respectively; (2)the terms extramural budget, Federal agency, Small Business Innovation Research Program, SBIR, Small Business Technology Transfer Program, and STTR have the meanings given such terms in section 9 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638); and (3)the term small business concern has the meaning given that term under section 3 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 632).
<enum>I</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Reauthorization of the SBIR and STTR programs</header> <section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idcc12126b-9180-496a-a4b1-6a55152d6e17" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>101.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Extension of termination dates</header> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id67e746d2-6174-4642-92c3-4b24772817de"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">SBIR</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 9(m) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638(m)) is amended—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idDC392D4AB2334A5DB3454DDCA4140179"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote><header-in-text level="subsection" style="OLC">Termination</header-in-text>.—</quote> and all that follows through <quote>the authorization</quote> and inserting <quote><header-in-text level="subsection" style="OLC">Termination</header-in-text>.—The authorization</quote>;</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id23DF388F32B947E58FE7362FE70E622F"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>2008</quote> and inserting <quote>2018</quote>; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1C4BE5E92C0649E397D56B0E48B741ED"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking paragraph (2).</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id098e0e53-2cc9-451e-b97b-bdf2a1381053"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">STTR</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 9(n)(1)(A) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638(n)(1)(A)) is amended—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA86836CF60BC429A86500FC2DB7F756A"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote><header-in-text level="subparagraph" style="OLC">In general</header-in-text>.—</quote> and all that follows through <quote>with respect</quote> and inserting <quote><header-in-text level="subparagraph" style="OLC">In general</header-in-text>.—With respect</quote>;</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id636C1F30FCBA43B48463C4498716D340"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>2009</quote> and inserting <quote>2018</quote>; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idED1A87C00A8F4F00BAE9EA93C345BF0F"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking clause (ii).</text> </paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2263d4cb-74b7-4534-8fd5-869859752725" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>102.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Status of the Office of Technology</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 9(b) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638(b)) is amended—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id078016de-018f-43ab-875b-66276b839d61"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (7), by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end;</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id209787f8-9f9d-4d8e-a1a8-5c0c8f17dd46"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (8), by striking the period at the end and inserting <quote>; and</quote>;</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida11af476-ec4f-4e4e-94cc-ffeea69a96c4"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by redesignating paragraph (8) as paragraph (9); and</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idce6d403a-2fde-4f8a-aca8-ab041ca88915"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc24dc99b-c5db-4461-87f5-6ff6834177a4" style="OLC"> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id23c2bada-8bd9-4866-b075-8ed39edf2a05"><enum>(10)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to maintain an Office of Technology to carry out the responsibilities of the Administration under this section, which shall be—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd6296b6d-e52d-415e-8ba6-e0ca3bfeaa05"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">headed by the Assistant Administrator for Technology, who shall report directly to the Administrator; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id90785cf5-c294-4574-b6ec-b11f86ef69b0"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">independent from the Office of Government Contracting of the Administration and sufficiently staffed and funded to comply with the oversight, reporting, and public database responsibilities assigned to the Office of Technology by the Administrator.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb82885c5-dc10-46c2-ae31-bb9f447d738d" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>103.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">SBIR allocation increase</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 9(f) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638(f)) is amended—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1cbbd794-d245-4a96-8159-d52c6e0009e2"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (1)—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id78b19058-8be3-410f-938f-a1f5f5fea3c1"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by striking <quote>Each</quote> and inserting <quote>Except as provided in paragraph (2)(B), each</quote>;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id226d075b-edf5-4065-8ccd-89ac1de6db99"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (B), by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1c004d66-4816-4f70-af36-e4b5e314ed60"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking subparagraph (C) and inserting the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id70bde51a-4ed1-4c1c-bda8-94c72e5f3f5d" style="OLC"> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida0ae7d50-0dea-42ea-aa06-cca9e5ac0841"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">not less than 2.5 percent of such budget in fiscal year 2011;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb1adc479-94cf-46e7-b9f4-c4e6e7aa6f75"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">not less than 2.6 percent of such budget in fiscal year 2012;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7a411178-2365-4ceb-8059-858bb64418c5"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">not less than 2.7 percent of such budget in fiscal year 2013;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4a016c65-b1b2-4224-ac6c-2ebd049bc5f3"><enum>(F)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">not less than 2.8 percent of such budget in fiscal year 2014;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id03d28851-96b7-4917-8703-49ee12e9bb60"><enum>(G)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">not less than 2.9 percent of such budget in fiscal year 2015;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idbfdf6cb1-f675-4d20-ade7-3652daa6b8f3"><enum>(H)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">not less than 3.0 percent of such budget in fiscal year 2016;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idBF3AC07252A04CEFB5ED77D589468EFB"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">not less than 3.1 percent of such budget in fiscal year 2017;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD78A8E162C0349268EB9BA7B8A73E7A6"><enum>(J)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">not less than 3.2 percent of such budget in fiscal year 2018;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA424D500B9EC48E0A879F1D9A3F6005C"><enum>(K)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">not less than 3.3 percent of such budget in fiscal year 2019;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idDAF0B48C75474C3E9DAC35C7DBEB66A9"><enum>(L)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">not less than 3.4 percent of such budget in fiscal year 2020; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id872CC2ACAEE0419D95AE756E314261EC"><enum>(M)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">not less than 3.5 percent of such budget in fiscal year 2021 and each fiscal year thereafter,</text> </subparagraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb2b00f7a-1a79-4f94-90c3-66c712b13486"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (2)—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3d6685ac-c31b-439c-8c75-e052aa89f85c"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by redesignating subparagraphs (A) and (B) as clauses (i) and (ii), respectively, and adjusting the margins accordingly;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id20d25919-a516-402b-9ce0-985ab15d787f"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>A Federal agency</quote> and inserting the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide1854c5c-d76a-4540-acb0-636add7d3e3c" style="OLC"> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3167e50f-feda-4d94-a615-274eeb02407b"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A Federal agency</text> </subparagraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id58f00ec8-01bd-44ff-be97-b5ac01356848"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc2ea5c47-d28f-4671-b864-9ee447f9dc24" style="OLC"> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id53725f1b-8f13-4536-8f06-685d1be34bda"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Department of Defense and Department of Energy</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy, to the greatest extent practicable, the percentage of the extramural budget in excess of 2.5 percent required to be expended with small business concerns under subparagraphs (D) through (M) of paragraph (1)—</text> <clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd3b400f8-a591-4500-bb87-02bafc538360"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">may not be used for new Phase I or Phase II awards; and</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9eef5ea3-a2ae-410e-82a8-f5a20ea3b044"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">shall be used for activities that further the readiness levels of technologies developed under Phase II awards, including conducting testing and evaluation to promote the transition of such technologies into commercial or defense products, or systems furthering the mission needs of the Department of Defense or the Department of Energy, as the case may be.</text> </clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subparagraph></paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb2d0f5ed-86fa-4e23-bf6e-9feffb9169dc" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>104.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">STTR allocation increase</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 9(n)(1)(B) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638(n)(1)(B)) is amended—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0298ca00-73bb-4c76-b21c-0f3a11156c7b"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in clause (i), by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end;</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id31969a13-c846-4522-8064-6305f2f196a7"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in clause (ii), by striking <quote>thereafter.</quote> and inserting <quote>through fiscal year 2011;</quote>; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idbd4b48ec-9b81-48b6-a18f-9c953e0f93e9"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id733c0f4d-1a45-48e9-be94-bfa834cd30c5" style="OLC"> <clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id31db59b8-30ff-4807-93fd-e593d88f9a33"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">0.4 percent for fiscal years 2012 and 2013;</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idae5742db-0956-40f9-80d5-21ed897ffb7e"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">0.5 percent for fiscal years 2014 and 2015; and</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb60f70df-7c5d-4736-bbf0-f18592eb7093"><enum>(v)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">0.6 percent for fiscal year 2016 and each fiscal year thereafter.</text> </clause><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idaa55a0b0-7974-447c-a457-d667e4e5bff3" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>105.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">SBIR and STTR award levels</header> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd88dafa9-6031-4251-926a-e472e6292b8a"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">SBIR adjustments</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 9(j)(2)(D) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638(j)(2)(D)) is amended—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb1efa0da-0ab0-4a7f-9ea2-b7b863e50289"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>$100,000</quote> and inserting <quote>$150,000</quote>; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id005978e8-8837-4bad-bce1-12c6c000ed1a"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>$750,000</quote> and inserting <quote>$1,000,000</quote>.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5888b579-4a77-4fcc-8dfb-9499ca9a12cd"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">STTR adjustments</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 9(p)(2)(B)(ix) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638(p)(2)(B)(ix)) is amended—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id827dcd1b-41f0-4797-b848-2ac41f16fcab"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>$100,000</quote> and inserting <quote>$150,000</quote>; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id20d250cf-3287-4309-aa1f-e06307b7e8d8"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>$750,000</quote> and inserting <quote>$1,000,000</quote>.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id834ce813-1d3b-4039-a5aa-67465c3a4917"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Annual adjustments</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 9 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638) is amended—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idec892113-bb0f-4ec1-b2ec-5ecf221f04bf"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (j)(2)(D), by striking <quote>once every 5 years to reflect economic adjustments and programmatic considerations</quote> and inserting <quote>every year for inflation</quote>; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idcc311d0e-a1ee-43d7-bb79-34d03b3fc2e2"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (p)(2)(B)(ix) by inserting <quote>(each of which the Administrator shall adjust for inflation annually)</quote> after <quote>$750,000,</quote>.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9a8a45aa-b7a8-4e55-8bb5-bfe5d8f21526"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Limitation on size of awards</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 9 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id03691ecd-dc55-409d-b609-5ed7a3b54084" style="OLC"> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id98ab335c-97b2-4dc1-9d43-d458ca806e07"><enum>(aa)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Limitation on size of awards</header> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3e9b62c8-62df-4cf8-8470-24503d4140e3"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Limitation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">No Federal agency may issue an award under the SBIR program or the STTR program if the size of the award exceeds the award guidelines established under this section by more than 50 percent.</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id08281da7-f302-46f0-968e-6c7c32fb7a44"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Maintenance of information</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Participating agencies shall maintain information on awards exceeding the guidelines established under this section, including—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida63c5944-94a2-41f4-b5b8-ccd428dbf11b"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the amount of each award;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id829874ed-9d80-4788-b470-7294d732aecb"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a justification for exceeding the award amount;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id06a983b3-975e-4d48-8255-76e96755f1f4"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the identity and location of each award recipient; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idce8ea87d-deb4-416d-aebb-287ec9ec7d08"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">whether an award recipient has received any venture capital investment and, if so, whether the recipient is majority-owned and controlled by multiple venture capital operating companies.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idbb7ed9bb-77a6-4530-80fb-112445268f2f"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Reports</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator shall include the information described in paragraph (2) in the annual report of the Administrator to Congress.</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id728AEE0DFB324E67A6ACAD12F17250F4"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Rule of construction</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to prevent a Federal agency from supplementing an award under the SBIR program or the STTR program using funds of the Federal agency that are not part of the SBIR program or the STTR program of the Federal agency.</text> </paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id72fc368b-bc6c-41c5-ad33-34fdd2df9a76" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>106.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Agency and program flexibility</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 9 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638), as amended by this Act, is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8A454812057044C1876CC0FF99E7A088" style="OLC"> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc5f64dfb-e230-444b-ae3b-05fc6d45fc40"><enum>(bb)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsequent phase II awards</header> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7815861f-258d-4c23-b338-98bf546edb0a"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Agency flexibility</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A small business concern that received an award from a Federal agency under this section shall be eligible to receive a subsequent Phase II award from another Federal agency, if the head of each relevant Federal agency or the relevant component of the Federal agency makes a written determination that the topics of the relevant awards are the same and both agencies report the awards to the Administrator for inclusion in the public database under subsection (k).</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida20e5da3-0007-4245-9232-59922a396b85"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">SBIR and STTR program flexibility</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A small business concern that received an award under this section under the SBIR program or the STTR program may receive a subsequent Phase II award in either the SBIR program or the STTR program and the participating agency or agencies shall report the awards to the Administrator for inclusion in the public database under subsection (k).</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDf5ac08b816ed4a6c9c42383faa71d62e"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Preventing duplicative awards</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Before making an award under paragraph (1) or (2), the head of a Federal agency shall verify that the project to be performed with the award has not been funded under the SBIR program or STTR program of another Federal agency.</text> </paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idf71447d9-3926-4230-8c4f-51f3ebbe4aea" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>107.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Elimination of Phase II invitations</header> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id81fcd1e6-ab31-437b-bf6a-ee2be0f93ed4"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 9(e) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638(e)) is amended—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id90232a7a-49df-46a6-9ea0-92d0966799e5"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (4)(B), by striking <quote>to further</quote> and inserting: <quote>which shall not include any invitation, pre-screening, pre-selection, or down-selection process for eligibility for the second phase, that will further</quote>; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id72dea8df-4d00-45ee-963e-e092300a6f88"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (6)(B), by striking <quote>to further develop proposed ideas to</quote> and inserting <quote>which shall not include any invitation, pre-screening, pre-selection, or down-selection process for eligibility for the second phase, that will further develop proposals that</quote>.</text> </paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID71e232f009fd4053989e52f1cd69d4ab" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>108.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Participation by firms with substantial investment from multiple venture capital operating companies in a portion of the SBIR program</header> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID4526eb2e32b141359d1acd810ef11ea3"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 9 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638), as amended by this Act, is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6A320300060948C88B5EA35E4AE38A5E" style="OLC"> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID0052910138334ebeba4566c02b6c42a9"><enum>(cc)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Participation of small business concerns majority-owned by venture capital operating companies in the SBIR program</header> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idEC7BF13DBD2448B3A6746EE2CEDD5612"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authority</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Upon a written determination described in paragraph (2) provided to the Administrator and to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship of the Senate and the Committee on Small Business of the House of Representatives not later than 30 days before the date on which an award is made—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDf9db487c01ad471984008bb48ce7d788"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Director of the National Institutes of Health, the Secretary of Energy, and the Director of the National Science Foundation may award not more than 25 percent of the funds allocated for the SBIR program of the Federal agency to small business concerns that are owned in majority part by multiple venture capital operating companies through competitive, merit-based procedures that are open to all eligible small business concerns; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDcbe04916f3374a04a9eba3fd7c183f2f"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the head of a Federal agency other than a Federal agency described in subparagraph (A) that participates in the SBIR program may award not more than 15 percent of the funds allocated for the SBIR program of the Federal agency to small business concerns that are owned in majority part by multiple venture capital operating companies through competitive, merit-based procedures that are open to all eligible small business concerns.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID14b1f879ed85407a9c62d03aaa37d977"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Determination</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A written determination described in this paragraph is a written determination by the head of a Federal agency that explains how the use of the authority under paragraph (1) will—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDfa756ad27316497fa147231980f6cc99"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">induce additional venture capital funding of small business innovations;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID5237cd9843bf471a8ce8bd40873adf1d"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">substantially contribute to the mission of the Federal agency;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID60cf87a5991a4c79b188e42be141aa72"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">demonstrate a need for public research; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc5fb75f0477d40439c4b473b88a966ad"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">otherwise fulfill the capital needs of small business concerns for additional financing for the SBIR project.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDf04e83341fd24914bf522e143cf97b2a"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Registration</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A small business concern that is majority-owned by multiple venture capital operating companies and qualified for participation in the program authorized under paragraph (1) shall—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID13a41227b13e4b64a3ea3ea1a0b94a48"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">register with the Administrator on the date that the small business concern submits an application for an award under the SBIR program; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID1d3034fc3b1b41ea8b8567be15b03e74"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">indicate in any SBIR proposal that the small business concern is registered under subparagraph (A) as majority-owned by multiple venture capital operating companies.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID171876ce4cfa40b7a7a7276b1f5f4b7a"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Compliance</header> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID735992b46fe745f7af0cc5162bf603e7"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The head of a Federal agency that makes an award under this subsection during a fiscal year shall collect and submit to the Administrator data relating to the number and dollar amount of Phase I awards, Phase II awards, and any other category of awards by the Federal agency under the SBIR program during that fiscal year.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc5630d44a136492ea75cda421c4a2db1"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Annual reporting</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator shall include as part of each annual report by the Administration under subsection (b)(7) any data submitted under subparagraph (A) and a discussion of the compliance of each Federal agency that makes an award under this subsection during the fiscal year with the maximum percentages under paragraph (1).</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDd12cfa82e70c474a90c5015bda9dd778"><enum>(5)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Enforcement</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If a Federal agency awards more than the percent of the funds allocated for the SBIR program of the Federal agency authorized under paragraph (1) for a purpose described in paragraph (1), the head of the Federal agency shall transfer an amount equal to the amount awarded in excess of the amount authorized under paragraph (1) to the funds for general SBIR programs from the non-SBIR and non-STTR research and development funds of the Federal agency not later than 180 days after the date on which the Federal agency made the award that caused the total awarded under paragraph (1) to be more than the amount authorized under paragraph (1) for a purpose described in paragraph (1).</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0BF50AF84C2040DBBF548B6CE27952F8"><enum>(6)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Evaluation criteria</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A Federal agency may not use investment of venture capital as a criterion for the award of contracts under the SBIR program or STTR program.</text> </paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID9fe2faef795944fd843f0c674ffc01c1"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Technical and conforming amendment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 3 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 632) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id44844BBCD5264063AC9B7C195878363B" style="OLC"> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7C827A7C9D234391992C42791FFA1C5F"><enum>(aa)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Venture capital operating company</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this Act, the term <term>venture capital operating company</term> means an entity described in clause (i), (v), or (vi) of section 121.103(b)(5) of title 13, Code of Federal Regulations (or any successor thereto).</text> </subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID81b2abb64a5b4a06b38681338353a432"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Rulemaking To ensure that firms that are majority-owned by multiple venture capital operating companies are able To participate in a portion of the SBIR program</header> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID88ae90e0775540c486cd18f55667ae78"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Statement of congressional intent</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">It is the stated intent of Congress that the Administrator should promulgate regulations to carry out the authority under section 9(cc) of the Small Business Act, as added by this section, that—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID517379157a794013bd8964dd81724d18"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">permit small business concerns that are majority-owned by multiple venture capital operating companies to participate in the SBIR program in accordance with section 9(cc) of the Small Business Act;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDb2514a4d6fe34feeb5048e1eb7f8c95f"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">provide specific guidance for small business concerns that are majority-owned by multiple venture capital operating companies with regard to eligibility, participation, and affiliation rules; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID6ee3a963421f4cb385cd6ec2765858c4"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">preserve and maintain the integrity of the SBIR program as a program for small business concerns in the United States, prohibiting large businesses or large entities or foreign-owned businesses or entities from participation in the program established under section 9 of the Small Business Act.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID48364620a0134efabcd6c0d0474eaab4"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Rulemaking required</header> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idB1F85787D79C41539B0B5901C4C656F2"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Proposed regulations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than April 30, 2011, the Administrator shall issue proposed regulations to amend section 121.103 (relating to determinations of affiliation applicable to the SBIR program) and section 121.702 (relating to ownership and control standards and size standards applicable to the SBIR program) of title 13, Code of Federal Regulations, for firms that are majority-owned by multiple venture capital operating companies and participating in the SBIR program solely under the authority under section 9(cc) of the Small Business Act, as added by this section.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id240D60C35DAF41BAA899BF9C83C52893"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Final regulations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than December 31, 2011, and after providing notice of and opportunity for comment on the proposed regulations issued under subparagraph (A), the Administrator shall issue final or interim final regulations under this subsection.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc1c35bfee1dc4956bc3c8347a02fc6e7"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Contents</header> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID917844c111dc4e0e967d8c2ae3c601fd"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The regulations issued under this subsection shall permit the participation of applicants majority-owned by multiple venture capital operating companies in the SBIR program in accordance with section 9(cc) of the Small Business Act, as added by this section, unless the Administrator determines—</text> <clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2AA04E2F43D549439A5B1AB2738A1C22"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in accordance with the size standards established under subparagraph (B), that the applicant is—</text> <subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id98624CFA374B4C95B444AEE29E6D5915"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a large business or large entity; or</text> </subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3848B79241B64EE79564B51EE9174A4F"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">majority-owned or controlled by a large business or large entity; or</text> </subclause></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id65D01E1ED2CD4C778F8056723D1D916D"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in accordance with the criteria established under subparagraph (C), that the applicant—</text> <subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDd2579b8320544564aa9388c446ab9f9e"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is a foreign business or a foreign entity or is not a citizen of the United States or alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence; or</text> </subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idDE435587AF514A54BB2DF85B3D819400"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is majority-owned or controlled by a foreign business, foreign entity, or person who is not a citizen of the United States or alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence.</text> </subclause></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idBC8794B90EA842B98AEBE7CBFA2BA278"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Size standards</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Under the authority to establish size standards under paragraphs (2) and (3) of section 3(a) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 632(a)), the Administrator shall, in accordance with paragraph (1) of this subsection, establish size standards for applicants seeking to participate in the SBIR program solely under the authority under section 9(cc) of the Small Business Act, as added by this section.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID31fed37d7ee547548d4e181ebe2c15a2"><enum>(C)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Criteria for determining foreign ownership</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator shall establish criteria for determining whether an applicant meets the requirements under subparagraph (A)(ii), and, in establishing the criteria, shall consider whether the criteria should include—</text> <clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA369B7498ABC4AF5B7A883BB63ACBACB"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">whether the applicant is at least 51 percent owned or controlled by citizens of the United States or domestic venture capital operating companies;</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idDBAD68EDAB1D4EC9A191C4918C511A7E"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">whether the applicant is domiciled in the United States; and</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0ED4994E61AC4ADFA8946716DD9310BA"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">whether the applicant is a direct or indirect subsidiary of a foreign-owned firm, including whether the criteria should include that an applicant is a direct or indirect subsidiary of a foreign-owned entity if—</text> <subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id506FE315F0CB4C2CA1AC40435593FAD5"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">any venture capital operating company that owns more than 20 percent of the applicant is a direct or indirect subsidiary of a foreign-owned entity; or</text> </subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id09461AB08C1E400F90AD0DE165FF40DA"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the aggregate, entities that are direct or indirect subsidiaries of foreign-owned entities own more than 49 percent of the applicant.</text> </subclause></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc92ebbdceff64ef2a22a6d5c741ab61b"><enum>(D)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Criteria for determining affiliation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator shall establish criteria, in accordance with paragraph (1), for determining whether an applicant is affiliated with a venture capital operating company or any other business that the venture capital operating company has financed and, in establishing the criteria, shall specify that—</text> <clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID7e64d8ce04124ca6b85685381d3cab96"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">if a venture capital operating company that is determined to be affiliated with an applicant is a minority investor in the applicant, the portfolio companies of the venture capital operating company shall not be determined to be affiliated with the applicant, unless—</text> <subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDa0bae306f2e54cdbaf048efe8a25539c"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the venture capital operating company owns a majority of the portfolio company; or</text> </subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc1429667d79e42a6b5da5af74cf447cd"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the venture capital operating company holds a majority of the seats on the board of directors of the portfolio company;</text> </subclause></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID86951adb4d134f049f9f16c77faca2fd"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">subject to clause (i), the Administrator retains the authority to determine whether a venture capital operating company is affiliated with an applicant, including establishing other criteria;</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idFD6727DB8847495582DD745A12F50E3B"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Administrator may not determine that a portfolio company of a venture capital operating company is affiliated with an applicant based solely on one or more shared investors; and</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9E616F6B0C0C4DD7A11E89AEB5745044"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">subject to clauses (i), (ii), and (iii), the Administrator retains the authority to determine whether a portfolio company of a venture capital operating company is affiliated with an applicant based on factors independent of whether there is a shared investor, such as whether there are contractual obligations between the portfolio company and the applicant.</text> </clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDae22de8440534d13a1e296c2fc31bc9e"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Enforcement</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If the Administrator does not issue final or interim final regulations under this subsection on or before December 31, 2011, the Administrator may not carry out any activities under section 4(h) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 633(h)) (as continued in effect pursuant to the Act entitled <quote>An Act to extend temporarily certain authorities of the Small Business Administration</quote>, approved October 10, 2006 (Public Law 109–316; 120 Stat. 1742)) during the period beginning on the day after December 31, 2011, and ending on the date on which the final or interim final regulations are issued.</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA2DA8B51FF1740F687852F121BA3448C"><enum>(5)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definition</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this subsection, the term <term>venture capital operating company</term> has the same meaning as in section 3(aa) of the Small Business Act, as added by this section.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDee758f52d83f428e9dcf0db4f04f0aeb"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Assistance for determining affiliates</header> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDd349c1d672dc45abb29a3f7b7afa0924"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Clear explanation required</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 30 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall post on the website of the Administration (with a direct link displayed on the homepage of the website of the Administration or the SBIR and STTR websites of the Administration)—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID7b6e99afa3e743579b50a5a9dc3ed8ce"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a clear explanation of the SBIR and STTR affiliation rules under part 121 of title 13, Code of Federal Regulations; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDdf63ad2fe83a4c4b944ec61a31d843eb"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">contact information for officers or employees of the Administration who—</text> <clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID4d4ffad4b272405fb5f6045c289dc77f"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">upon request, shall review an issue relating to the rules described in subparagraph (A); and</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDf314dff7f4304d95a0670296cf8cf1c2"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">shall respond to a request under clause (i) not later than 20 business days after the date on which the request is received.</text> </clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idDE6808A1711A4F1192272FC6880C2CE3"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Inclusion of affiliation rules for certain small business concerns</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">On and after the date on which the final regulations under subsection (c) are issued, the Administrator shall post on the website of the Administration information relating to the regulations, in accordance with paragraph (1).</text> </paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3712b37e-e5e5-4ff0-92aa-11dddbb4934e" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>109.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">SBIR and STTR special acquisition preference</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 9(r) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638(r)) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida5d725e7-8c5c-42fa-b4dd-936333a2dd0b" style="OLC"> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idca936e6f-9670-4309-97a3-35fa4a38a567"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Phase III awards</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">To the greatest extent practicable, Federal agencies and Federal prime contractors shall issue Phase III awards relating to technology, including sole source awards, to the SBIR and STTR award recipients that developed the technology.</text> </paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8d154098-1568-4073-82a3-4411b47bec04" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>110.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Collaborating with Federal laboratories and research and development centers</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 9 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638), as amended by this Act, is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idf7bbfcd7-f535-47b3-bb78-a016ab0d9418" style="OLC"> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5feb1f79-12f8-411b-b9b7-508454146341"><enum>(dd)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Collaborating with Federal laboratories and research and development centers</header> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb107fbf8-83ee-43f2-9adf-1a55df412f23"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authorization</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subject to the limitations under this section, the head of each participating Federal agency may make SBIR and STTR awards to any eligible small business concern that—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida59b442f-e62f-4990-b106-cf6f0170ad62"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">intends to enter into an agreement with a Federal laboratory or federally funded research and development center for portions of the activities to be performed under that award; or</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idf071f1b5-3e36-449d-8f89-53e310fcc033"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">has entered into a cooperative research and development agreement (as defined in section 12(d) of the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 (15 U.S.C. 3710a(d))) with a Federal laboratory.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id76f3d6b1-f214-4bd9-bccf-9d0cbe446432"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Prohibition</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">No Federal agency shall—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idecf7bcb5-57ae-45e2-95d1-6b165c809ad8"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">condition an SBIR or STTR award upon entering into agreement with any Federal laboratory or any federally funded laboratory or research and development center for any portion of the activities to be performed under that award;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8c67142e-90b3-40e6-a007-d1febe5dd9b9"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">approve an agreement between a small business concern receiving a SBIR or STTR award and a Federal laboratory or federally funded laboratory or research and development center, if the small business concern performs a lesser portion of the activities to be performed under that award than required by this section and by the SBIR Policy Directive and the STTR Policy Directive of the Administrator; or</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idfbf46a5a-fd4a-4fc8-a26b-6e56161af4a6"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">approve an agreement that violates any provision, including any data rights protections provision, of this section or the SBIR and the STTR Policy Directives.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2cb2c5d9-7873-4307-956a-afe61b1651d5"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Implementation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this subsection, the Administrator shall modify the SBIR Policy Directive and the STTR Policy Directive issued under this section to ensure that small business concerns—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idf450f82e-f754-4690-bec9-e9119706d64d"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">have the flexibility to use the resources of the Federal laboratories and federally funded research and development centers; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id97d52e4c-6588-4fea-baf2-e809e23b3cf8"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">are not mandated to enter into agreement with any Federal laboratory or any federally funded laboratory or research and development center as a condition of an award.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5a8c679e-0509-4702-8393-fae2fd2ef2b4" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>111.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notice requirement</header> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD98C519E5A3447848B63D053B3A2981F"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">SBIR program</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 9(g) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638(g)) is amended—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6018EC5FDC51402DA8C566F4AF3EDA4B"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (10), by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end;</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id02EC5286D7764979BF4E75997D25A37D"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (11), by striking the period at the end and inserting a semicolon; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id287C71D9A240403DA7DE4FAF54C0CC0A"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA3EF9EBAF5DE4585BDE299D7079D8DA2" style="OLC"> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8576FCA5241E4C4B9632FED0157AC94F"><enum>(12)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">provide timely notice to the Administrator of any case or controversy before any Federal judicial or administrative tribunal concerning the SBIR program of the Federal agency; and</text> </paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD6A7E4C09FC64ECC9D39B0F686340718"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">STTR program</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 9(o) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638(o)) is amended—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd48607d3-2e41-4f1f-a2cf-3b65f426eadb"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking paragraph (15);</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id673FDD5D0C074255B42D3D00A060C7BF"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (16), by striking the period at the end and inserting <quote>; and</quote>;</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idcd370858-679c-4190-b966-8e14e1a2eb61"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by redesignating paragraph (16) as paragraph (15); and</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idCF54C093FD0D4655A5122687AE225BC5"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id11A3C2221CF5497FBFF6304AE4596CFC" style="OLC"> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1029CDBD80D94D7C9C4B1EBF3FA801D2"><enum>(16)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">provide timely notice to the Administrator of any case or controversy before any Federal judicial or administrative tribunal concerning the STTR program of the Federal agency.</text> </paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID04d2dfda79ab4bbf9bb277c622f2b34c" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>112.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Express authority for an agency to award sequential Phase II awards for SBIR or STTR funded projects</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 9 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638), as amended by this Act, is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4A85A3C299F04A46B7F58E96ECE17123" style="OLC"> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID7753f3bb8075481fbc4ab194f7091843"><enum>(ee)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Additional Phase II SBIR and STTR awards</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A small business concern that receives a Phase II SBIR award or a Phase II STTR award for a project remains eligible to receive an additional Phase II SBIR award or Phase II STTR award for that project.</text> </subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </section><enum>II</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Outreach and commercialization initiatives</header> <section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2f8afa65-df64-4226-b3ba-a4ac99817bdf" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>201.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Rural and State outreach</header> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idaaa25469-2896-49d2-9839-3007bce85ceb"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 9 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638) is amended by inserting after subsection (r) the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idECDED696C73645D3909A102333291CF2" style="OLC"> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDE883C85D420D4652B6843EF28B0B81CE"><enum>(s)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Federal and State technology partnership program</header> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID1E8C7D46F8C844098C1740799A2F28B7"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definitions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this subsection, the following definitions apply:</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDB2FA7147F56C48F792041C37E34BD889"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Applicant</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>applicant</term> means an entity, organization, or individual that submits a proposal for an award or a cooperative agreement under this subsection.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID3FA1AD13532E480D9624ACFE2BED041E"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Fast program</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>FAST program</term> means the Federal and State Technology Partnership Program established under this subsection.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID9037A6F3D17548D594795758FD334E92"><enum>(C)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Recipient</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>recipient</term> means a person that receives an award or becomes party to a cooperative agreement under this subsection.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDEA4A1DB8FE194492A689DFE1061CFAD5"><enum>(D)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">State</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>State</term> means each of the several States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idFA947BAE7D7C41FE95E949125176AF8D"><enum>(E)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definitions relating to mentoring networks</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The terms <term>business advice and counseling</term>, <term>mentor</term>, and <term>mentoring network</term> have the meanings given those terms in section 34(e).</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID4D4636EAF71A49139DDFCC72C6D56264"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Establishment of program</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator shall establish a program to be known as the Federal and State Technology Partnership Program, the purpose of which shall be to strengthen the technological competitiveness of small business concerns in the States.</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDB9A0A887041F495290C245EC8F4E4B37"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Grants and cooperative agreements</header> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID5473F2A85D334AFEAA00E937E3A82202"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Joint review</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In carrying out the FAST program, the Administrator and the program managers for the SBIR program and STTR program at the National Science Foundation, the Department of Defense, and any other Federal agency determined appropriate by the Administrator shall jointly review proposals submitted by applicants and may make awards or enter into cooperative agreements under this subsection based on the factors for consideration set forth in subparagraph (B), in order to enhance or develop in a State—</text> <clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID2BC28510DB494E4E812B2FCB912E2BB1"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">technology research and development by small business concerns;</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID7D93608152224E528BDE80FEC69BE818"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">technology transfer from university research to technology-based small business concerns;</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDCB2866195B9945F0B8D3135CB71B9272"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">technology deployment and diffusion benefitting small business concerns;</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID47631D3D1BC648BDB4DE0509B3818C7E"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the technological capabilities of small business concerns through the establishment or operation of consortia comprised of entities, organizations, or individuals, including—</text> <subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDB952694710744FBB988F4BDBED988CB6"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">State and local development agencies and entities;</text> </subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID6088BD18E48F4B6FB992011B14EFC46F"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">representatives of technology-based small business concerns;</text> </subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID4F4C49301955420D9116A1A2870E455A"><enum>(III)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">industries and emerging companies;</text> </subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID55050D7CD37A4877802FA0E8274BCFEB"><enum>(IV)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">universities; and</text> </subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID5D299D22CC794687916F70F1AF7C6CB3"><enum>(V)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">small business development centers; and</text> </subclause></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDB7C7EF50C1FD4ABB8BB82B62E4348CA1"><enum>(v)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">outreach, financial support, and technical assistance to technology-based small business concerns participating in or interested in participating in an SBIR program or STTR program, including initiatives—</text> <subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID8694B52D1642455E9D625DAB6F73CA82"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to make grants or loans to companies to pay a portion or all of the cost of developing SBIR or STTR proposals;</text> </subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID44522EB7AF044EFBA7202CE9B4F6E1A1"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to establish or operate a Mentoring Network within the FAST program to provide business advice and counseling that will assist small business concerns that have been identified by FAST program participants, program managers of participating SBIR agencies, the Administration, or other entities that are knowledgeable about the SBIR and STTR programs as good candidates for the SBIR and STTR programs, and that would benefit from mentoring, in accordance with section 34;</text> </subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDE574855869A645C78A9488FAE2F602CF"><enum>(III)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to create or participate in a training program for individuals providing SBIR or STTR outreach and assistance at the State and local levels; and</text> </subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDA2C31BD46A38438FA85EA1B76988190C"><enum>(IV)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to encourage the commercialization of technology developed through funding under the SBIR program or the STTR program.</text> </subclause></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID920173DC165A4A41BDE880656FFBD171"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Selection considerations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In making awards or entering into cooperative agreements under this subsection, the Administrator and the program managers referred to in subparagraph (A)—</text> <clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID35B7EC471923494EA2BEDEB28B38C5FF"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">may only consider proposals by applicants that intend to use a portion of the Federal assistance provided under this subsection to provide outreach, financial support, or technical assistance to technology-based small business concerns participating in or interested in participating in the SBIR program or STTR program; and</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDA32FAD90221141D0A837E2F1B7F25E9F"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">shall consider, at a minimum—</text> <subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDF88C76BA2D3D435884A393A8A7FF08F3"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">whether the applicant has demonstrated that the assistance to be provided would address unmet needs of small business concerns in the community, and whether it is important to use Federal funding for the proposed activities;</text> </subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDFFF389A494954A03852B1DEC9F89A535"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">whether the applicant has demonstrated that a need exists to increase the number or success of small high-technology businesses in the State or an area of the State, as measured by the number of Phase I and Phase II SBIR awards that have historically been received by small business concerns in the State or area of the State;</text> </subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID0759B6CF1F6E44FB9F37123B99428545"><enum>(III)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">whether the projected costs of the proposed activities are reasonable;</text> </subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDDDEA61385B2C4B68AB4F7FF403D6718B"><enum>(IV)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">whether the proposal integrates and coordinates the proposed activities with other State and local programs assisting small high-technology firms in the State;</text> </subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID12A134E526814F2486B1A9FC67A6439C"><enum>(V)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the manner in which the applicant will measure the results of the activities to be conducted; and</text> </subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDE263CE163F3D4F6B98735F9173A36B50"><enum>(VI)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">whether the proposal addresses the needs of small business concerns—</text> <item commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID759E20C15BEC4BFF96046AD21E2B6329"><enum>(aa)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">owned and controlled by women;</text> </item><item commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDAAB354CF83524A619340AC037C1BDE46"><enum>(bb)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">that are socially and economically disadvantaged small business concerns (as defined in section 8(a)(4)(A));</text> </item><item commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2030D0C9B43D4EB08976254A151F0729"><enum>(cc)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">that are HUBZone small business concerns;</text> </item><item commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDE9EEC8A8236B44CB9F1376392D2E33AD"><enum>(dd)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">located in areas that have historically not participated in the SBIR and STTR programs;</text> </item><item commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID93d26ad20abe44ac8fda5fe4bd3af067"><enum>(ee)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans;</text> </item><item commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDe29508f4dc9543c6af20fdba6fd598f9"><enum>(ff)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">owned and controlled by Native Americans; and</text> </item><item commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID9b89a5e69b5d473a8dc2adc0c2eedec8"><enum>(gg)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">located in geographic areas with an unemployment rate that exceeds the national unemployment rate, based on the most recently available monthly publications of the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor.</text> </item></subclause></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID871D0A10DE6D4D4E97907F75444EA412"><enum>(C)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Proposal limit</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not more than 1 proposal may be submitted for inclusion in the FAST program under this subsection to provide services in any one State in any 1 fiscal year.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID47826FD4C3A14EAFB67DE61C86B0A9F7"><enum>(D)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Process</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Proposals and applications for assistance under this subsection shall be in such form and subject to such procedures as the Administrator shall establish. The Administrator shall promulgate regulations establishing standards for the consideration of proposals under subparagraph (B), including standards regarding each of the considerations identified in subparagraph (B)(ii).</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDD2E482551EB24C1B9339C0FEEB29AD76"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Cooperation and coordination</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In carrying out the FAST program, the Administrator shall cooperate and coordinate with—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID365505F95A854DD6B21F4198448F19D4"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Federal agencies required by this section to have an SBIR program; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDE192F0453E554D38949EFD941DD9D712"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">entities, organizations, and individuals actively engaged in enhancing or developing the technological capabilities of small business concerns, including—</text> <clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID74627AAA46114B2AA011B232D43CAB0F"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">State and local development agencies and entities;</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID31B38D7ECCF34C89B5B169AD2795EAA3"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">State committees established under the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research of the National Science Foundation (as established under section 113 of the National Science Foundation Authorization Act of 1988 (42 U.S.C. 1862g));</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID7BFCB607E05C4BDB84F909EFBD724B62"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">State science and technology councils; and</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDA604A889C73645028C8D84CC5B74485D"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">representatives of technology-based small business concerns.</text> </clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDD8AAB2CA41D144319B95E3B9EA370515"><enum>(5)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Administrative requirements</header> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID335EED4DDD974085AAE1246710482E16"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Competitive basis</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Awards and cooperative agreements under this subsection shall be made or entered into, as applicable, on a competitive basis.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID095F61C8F38D43E4A9376289C9597948"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Matching requirements</header> <clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID1B7AAEE7073F46419A851C5AD8D16CF3"><enum>(i)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The non-Federal share of the cost of an activity (other than a planning activity) carried out using an award or under a cooperative agreement under this subsection shall be—</text> <subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID3496E69A9ADC4B1B8C28DC75B088BF49"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">except as provided in clause (iii), 35 cents for each Federal dollar, in the case of a recipient that will serve small business concerns located in 1 of the 18 States receiving the fewest Phase I SBIR awards;</text> </subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDF599F261394045F4A0461D23ADA44F0C"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">except as provided in clause (ii) or (iii), 1 dollar for each Federal dollar, in the case of a recipient that will serve small business concerns located in 1 of the 16 States receiving the greatest number of Phase I SBIR awards; and</text> </subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID6F1CE30ED18D48F99E89C1A07F9DC64F"><enum>(III)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">except as provided in clause (ii) or (iii), 50 cents for each Federal dollar, in the case of a recipient that will serve small business concerns located in a State that is not described in subclause (I) or (II) that is receiving Phase I SBIR awards.</text> </subclause></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID5DC9041CAD9647EC969ADBA23F146DC3"><enum>(ii)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Low-income areas</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The non-Federal share of the cost of the activity carried out using an award or under a cooperative agreement under this subsection shall be 35 cents for each Federal dollar that will be directly allocated by a recipient described in clause (i) to serve small business concerns located in a qualified census tract, as that term is defined in section 42(d)(5)(B)(ii)(I) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. Federal dollars not so allocated by that recipient shall be subject to the matching requirements of clause (i).</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID7b8060bda634434aa4821ad8ce0e99c3"><enum>(iii)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Rural areas</header> <subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc2cc876b3961411c81d07ec3979a0c96"><enum>(I)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Except as provided in subclause (II), the non-Federal share of the cost of the activity carried out using an award or under a cooperative agreement under this subsection shall be 35 cents for each Federal dollar that will be directly allocated by a recipient described in clause (i) to serve small business concerns located in a rural area.</text> </subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID875a551b193949828ca8ead2d79df2d3"><enum>(II)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Enhanced rural awards</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For a recipient located in a rural area that is located in a State described in clause (i)(I), the non-Federal share of the cost of the activity carried out using an award or under a cooperative agreement under this subsection shall be 15 cents for each Federal dollar that will be directly allocated by a recipient described in clause (i) to serve small business concerns located in the rural area.</text> </subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID6e2d9e6b77db4d5d9103fcda1db93a9a"><enum>(III)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definition of rural area</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this clause, the term <quote>rural area</quote> has the meaning given that term in section 1393(a)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.</text> </subclause></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID40EFD029B8A14F57A141F4FC72BB0E53"><enum>(iv)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Types of funding</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The non-Federal share of the cost of an activity carried out by a recipient shall be comprised of not less than 50 percent cash and not more than 50 percent of indirect costs and in-kind contributions, except that no such costs or contributions may be derived from funds from any other Federal program.</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID00D74FC1442847C09C3D72D156630B50"><enum>(v)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Rankings</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For the first full fiscal year after the date of enactment of the SBIR/STTR Reauthorization Act of 2010, and each fiscal year thereafter, based on the statistics for the most recent full fiscal year for which the Administrator has compiled statistics, the Administrator shall reevaluate the ranking of each State for purposes of clause (i).</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID3E36448BE8004B73B2B60B7B7DE298F8"><enum>(C)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Duration</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Awards may be made or cooperative agreements entered into under this subsection for multiple years, not to exceed 5 years in total.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDFF88772CE3C54050944F2165F50E9184"><enum>(6)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Annual reports</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator shall submit an annual report to the Committee on Small Business of the Senate and the Committee on Science and the Committee on Small Business of the House of Representatives regarding—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID8506E0D9A9DB434992773771761F0654"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the number and amount of awards provided and cooperative agreements entered into under the FAST program during the preceding year;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID585D56CB02A9499E9268431BF1470EDD"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a list of recipients under this subsection, including their location and the activities being performed with the awards made or under the cooperative agreements entered into; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID9D5B135E7EFA45669F57FEEA2A56D513"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Mentoring Networks and the mentoring database, as provided for under section 34, including—</text> <clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID91681C0E00664AD4AA122D578C8B6791"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the status of the inclusion of mentoring information in the database required by subsection (k); and</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID1A38F734EE414D97A92A1AC0EB1E1CB4"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the status of the implementation and description of the usage of the Mentoring Networks.</text> </clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID59E0AD9D20DD4EC384B17D22BFDD235E"><enum>(7)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Program levels</header> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID0696381B062C469FA67E2651F8B6F71C"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out the FAST program, including Mentoring Networks, under this subsection and section 34, $15,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2010 through 2014.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID9222F00880E5413E879ACD1EDA0C5C03"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Mentoring database</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Of the total amount made available under subparagraph (A) for fiscal years 2010 through 2014, a reasonable amount, not to exceed a total of $500,000, may be used by the Administration to carry out section 34(d).</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDE424537AED004918BB101ACFE375D1E4"><enum>(8)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Termination</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The authority to carry out the FAST program under this subsection shall terminate on September 30, 2014.</text> </paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idBC043DD799E24AC782D8AB769967301D"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Technical and conforming amendments</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 631 et seq.) is amended—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id929B251C724B4B0CB512D13C065463E3"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking section 34 (15 U.S.C. 657d);</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id737163EBF1024E039D2BBD09FDA2B242"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by redesignating sections 35 through 43 as sections 34 through 42, respectively;</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idF7BF517214904CF99630C09C139AB8BC"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in section 9(k)(1)(D) (15 U.S.C. 638(k)(1)(D)), by striking <quote>section 35(d)</quote> and inserting <quote>section 34(d)</quote>;</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id76A92A611BEA4A77B9B1D3C88A8E4324"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in section 34 (15 U.S.C. 657e), as so redesignated—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idAA00432BD8FE49CDB6503DF7E5AC1AA5"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (c)(1), by striking <quote>section 34(c)(1)(E)(ii)</quote> and inserting <quote>section 9(s)(3)(A)(v)(II)</quote>;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1ECBBB0CA5C645A89B12F78B5A235532"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>section 34</quote> each place it appears and inserting <quote>section 9(s)</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idB1250CFCFAA3438E92D066C69FCB0702"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idB8A8C494C13E4E7985F43BBC4CC3BB06" style="OLC"> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id03F406356CDB4B049D1343700920B759"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definitions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this section, the following definitions apply:</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idECE3EE4AB1074F7DA3A245D3BA5C87AF"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Business advice and counseling</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>business advice and counseling</term> means providing advice and assistance on matters described in subsection (c)(2)(B) to small business concerns to guide them through the SBIR and STTR program process, from application to award and successful completion of each phase of the program.</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id50975F03A2B94D44831215142F0D03C1"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Fast program</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>FAST program</term> means the Federal and State Technology Partnership Program established under section 9(s).</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idAC4768A4978C499EA6304765361EE495"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Mentor</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>mentor</term> means an individual described in subsection (c)(2).</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1ED75B5C57484F7C99575157B1BFE323"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Mentoring network</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>Mentoring Network</term> means an association, organization, coalition, or other entity (including an individual) that meets the requirements of subsection (c).</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id014ACCD43ED64E07AE30D75B9E53693F"><enum>(5)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Recipient</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>recipient</term> means a person that receives an award or becomes party to a cooperative agreement under this section.</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE1FABD231C8A45A6BDA2F954D6A6F1DA"><enum>(6)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Sbir program</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>SBIR program</term> has the same meaning as in section 9(e)(4).</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE6E807AF6A4F4EE4B2C65151922B053D"><enum>(7)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">State</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>State</term> means each of the several States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa.</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE6D5AD994A6642F6A9138DA57DE97BB8"><enum>(8)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Sttr program</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>STTR program</term> has the same meaning as in section 9(e)(6).</text> </paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>; </after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idB7F4B49FC5EA4F5EBA969E53F7CF44BE"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in section 36(d) (15 U.S.C. 657i(d)), as so redesignated, by striking <quote>section 43</quote> and inserting <quote>section 42</quote>;</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idEC551F34E2694322977C81E62C7F9B6B"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in section 39(d) (15 U.S.C. 657l(d)), as so redesignated, by striking <quote>section 43</quote> and inserting <quote>section 42</quote>; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idCC63784EFB644F5DADD8269B53D93A89"><enum>(7)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in section 40(b) (15 U.S.C. 657m(b)), as so redesignated, by striking <quote>section 43</quote> and inserting <quote>section 42</quote>.</text> </paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id48a75501-8ce8-42b7-8327-7b816ba9e9db" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>202.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">SBIR–STEM Workforce Development Grant Pilot Program</header> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idf25f97a0-d129-4cfd-a352-2ef71dfb929b"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Pilot program established</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">From amounts made available to carry out this section, the Administrator shall establish a SBIR–STEM Workforce Development Grant Pilot Program to encourage the business community to provide workforce development opportunities for college students, in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math (in this section referred to as <quote>STEM college students</quote>), particularly those that are socially and economically disadvantaged individuals, from rural areas, or from areas with high unemployment, as determined by the Administrator, by providing a SBIR bonus grant.</text> </subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id250f141e-c2b9-4fb9-b4b7-961bdbf04f8d"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Eligible entities defined</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this section the term <quote>eligible entity</quote> means a grantee receiving a grant under the SBIR Program on the date of the bonus grant under subsection (a) that provides an internship program for STEM college students.</text> </subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id56234e3a-c66a-4924-8df6-68909a15e7a5"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Awards</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An eligible entity shall receive a bonus grant equal to 10 percent of either a Phase I or Phase II grant, as applicable, with a total award maximum of not more than $10,000 per year.</text> </subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide0e784a9-c387-40af-aff5-c145e3a4a066"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Evaluation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Following the fourth year of funding under this section, the Administrator shall submit to Congress as part of the report under section 9(b)(7) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638(b)(7)) the results of the SBIR–STEM Workforce Development Grant Pilot Program.</text> </subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb5809035-c931-4c61-b3da-b372aeaf05ce"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authorization of appropriations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb08e55ae-275a-4505-80ad-641fa8bd3c54"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$1,000,000 for fiscal year 2011;</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4e8d7d9a-8e97-4195-a1a2-cc26aea56696"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$1,000,000 for fiscal year 2012;</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc467f3cf-b8ef-4206-96b4-fc1a8884aa78"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$1,000,000 for fiscal year 2013;</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id692cc887-476f-40d3-be11-cc80a77bba2a"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$1,000,000 for fiscal year 2014; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9f007a14-0e1f-49f0-bdb7-6ea6dccc604f"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$1,000,000 for fiscal year 2015.</text> </paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2938fa21-af76-4c6f-9f6e-c908a609b038" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>203.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Technical assistance for awardees</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 9(q) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638(q)) is amended—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idbe5a4513-0b00-4272-aec4-44f37f78afe0"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (1)—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id790E0D3662664A7C8DD59C156A3480F3"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting <quote>or STTR program</quote> after <quote>SBIR program</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0C7E06CF5DBE4968AE3A0F4AD56E4534"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>SBIR projects</quote> and inserting <quote>SBIR or STTR projects</quote>;</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6BB433A599E5453FB7962E564BA79975"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (2), by striking <quote>3 years</quote> and inserting <quote>5 years</quote>; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idFED422E6CE3E41EB869856ADA01C45D7"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (3)—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idAB373FA830864C66B2CA8C4FC80D5397"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (A)—</text> <clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4658AC6C1B1747A1B49C371A31128016"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting <quote>or STTR</quote> after <quote>SBIR</quote>; and</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id66E23712FF30490D91C290C8B2E54512"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>$4,000</quote> and inserting <quote>$5,000</quote>;</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6a588025-3b23-4603-bf9a-8ea7ecd34252"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking subparagraph (B) and inserting the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1827BF9717884E8E9612326740788A90" style="OLC"> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0602B6AE3DE1490C8F061C4B8BA74A98"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Phase II</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A Federal agency described in paragraph (1) may—</text> <clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8ACFBFFFE87D45BB88F2BBC2225BC46B"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">provide to the recipient of a Phase II SBIR or STTR award, through a vendor selected under paragraph (2), the services described in paragraph (1), in an amount equal to not more than $5,000 per year; or</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID94f1cda0c5d4469fbb96c1c17b66a8c4"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">authorize the recipient of a Phase II SBIR or STTR award to purchase the services described in paragraph (1), in an amount equal to not more than $5,000 per year, which shall be in addition to the amount of the recipient’s award.</text> </clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9cadc7ec-f7f8-4bb1-8f2d-132ddcb69dc3"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ideafd0045-ba75-4129-a279-0c5c917da43f" style="OLC"> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id21bdc00c-711b-4bcb-a2cb-c41d507fbf91"><enum>(C)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Flexibility</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In carrying out subparagraphs (A) and (B), each Federal agency shall provide the allowable amounts to a recipient that meets the eligibility requirements under the applicable subparagraph, if the recipient requests to seek technical assistance from an individual or entity other than the vendor selected under paragraph (2) by the Federal agency.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idbff14f27-aa18-434b-bea1-d96cd33d0bb8"><enum>(D)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Limitation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A Federal agency may not—</text> <clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8bbea3d3-33c9-44d0-9539-38fea73015b1"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">use the amounts authorized under subparagraph (A) or (B) unless the vendor selected under paragraph (2) provides the technical assistance to the recipient; or</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2f00058a-2456-4e17-967a-a4774726ea94"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">enter a contract with a vendor under paragraph (2) under which the amount provided for technical assistance is based on total number of Phase I or Phase II awards.</text> </clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subparagraph></paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0c040f98-9f88-44bf-ae70-2da1d075579b" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>204.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Commercialization Readiness Program at Department of Defense</header> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8D4E925229254E09BB44DABE30CC38CD"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 9(y) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638(y)) is amended—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide059aea5-9663-46dd-ac31-80ebce217762"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the subsection heading, by striking <quote><header-in-text level="subsection" style="OLC">pilot</header-in-text></quote> and inserting <quote><header-in-text level="subsection" style="OLC">readiness</header-in-text></quote>;</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1B1E6ACF0661429A8934AA324E2434D6"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>Pilot</quote> each place that term appears and inserting <quote>Readiness</quote>;</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idAF454EC4FAE74D619EE9CD3804019017"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (1)—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id42a94775-026a-4130-a3e8-aeb702887161"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting <quote>or Small Business Technology Transfer Program</quote> after <quote>Small Business Innovation Research Program</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id40f3947e-e86f-4424-b2c5-a94dd7f64c9f"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following: <quote>The authority to create and administer a Commercialization Readiness Program under this subsection may not be construed to eliminate or replace any other SBIR program or STTR program that enhances the insertion or transition of SBIR or STTR technologies, including any such program in effect on the date of enactment of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2006 (Public Law 109–163; 119 Stat. 3136).</quote>;</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0570bcfb-6351-418b-a7a9-8a295ae3aa77"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (2), by inserting <quote>or Small Business Technology Transfer Program</quote> after <quote>Small Business Innovation Research Program</quote>;</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4F78FCDF46B648178777809696EDC484"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking paragraphs (5) and (6); and</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3c0e05da-899a-4183-9d89-7bbb79aeded8"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting after paragraph (4) the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id781c5dfc-2dae-48a1-82ef-cf4b9547406e" style="OLC"> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idbb13a840-57ed-46d3-b461-423336d600d8"><enum>(5)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Insertion incentives</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For any contract with a value of not less than $100,000,000, the Secretary of Defense is authorized to—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide9e8a7d7-b495-45bd-bd6d-fb971056e590"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">establish goals for the transition of Phase III technologies in subcontracting plans; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1dbbc38f-e648-4cc0-a444-fd133f7288de"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">require a prime contractor on such a contract to report the number and dollar amount of contracts entered into by that prime contractor for Phase III SBIR or STTR projects.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id16979eb5-cafd-4c8a-b9f5-0c1c26af09e7"><enum>(6)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Goal for SBIR and STTR technology insertion</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of Defense shall—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id55d20fcb-675f-4344-9eda-aa0699def906"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">set a goal to increase the number of Phase II SBIR contracts and the number of Phase II STTR contracts awarded by that Secretary that lead to technology transition into programs of record or fielded systems;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id71f10c76-131c-4d35-9249-55c911de458d"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">use incentives in effect on the date of enactment of the <short-title>SBIR/STTR Reauthorization Act of 2010</short-title>, or create new incentives, to encourage agency program managers and prime contractors to meet the goal under subparagraph (A); and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6955b529-e14c-4385-8015-2d628d48ddcb"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">include in the annual report to Congress the percentage of contracts described in subparagraph (A) awarded by that Secretary, and information on the ongoing status of projects funded through the Commercialization Readiness Program and efforts to transition these technologies into programs of record or fielded systems.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idDF5960BF9A9A461E8592C1665903AE07"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Technical and conforming amendment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 9(i)(1) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638(i)(1)) is amended by inserting <quote>(including awards under subsection (y))</quote> after <quote>the number of awards</quote>.</text> </subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idbeeadf6c-8b21-4256-bbd0-2a0e9c964c1c" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>205.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Commercialization Readiness Pilot Program for civilian agencies</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 9 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638), as amended by this Act, is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idfb0b5fd4-c23e-464a-b778-2f7facb5e310" style="OLC"> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida5ee09d7-989c-4081-aa67-81411dbb15cb"><enum>(ff)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Pilot program</header> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id63089411-f8d4-48f4-81ee-40e2ee1b5beb"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authorization</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The head of each covered Federal agency may allocate not more than 10 percent of the funds allocated to the SBIR program and the STTR program of the covered Federal agency—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0095A2B472764230A200690FBC2255EB"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for awards for technology development, testing, and evaluation of SBIR and STTR Phase II technologies; or</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idBC7C2DF22B084069A2D06B6979D271EF"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to support the progress of research or research and development conducted under the SBIR or STTR programs to Phase III.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1b5083f1-f218-4f4a-8214-cd0b9c90c66b"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Application by Federal agency</header> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idfa48ac69-98a5-4057-b34a-084a4b01cc63"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A covered Federal agency may not establish a pilot program unless the covered Federal agency makes a written application to the Administrator, not later than 90 days before to the first day of the fiscal year in which the pilot program is to be established, that describes a compelling reason that additional investment in SBIR or STTR technologies is necessary, including unusually high regulatory, systems integration, or other costs relating to development or manufacturing of identifiable, highly promising small business technologies or a class of such technologies expected to substantially advance the mission of the agency.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida5caf196-f880-4610-96ca-51803fbb1a89"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Determination</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator shall—</text> <clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5f9f4a9c-c974-41f9-8e04-61b8a87ef2ac"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">make a determination regarding an application submitted under subparagraph (A) not later than 30 days before the first day of the fiscal year for which the application is submitted;</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc68d431b-417b-46b8-8da2-6e6ab6114649"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">publish the determination in the Federal Register; and</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7fe116cc-0da8-4be2-9443-e5416703a5a6"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">make a copy of the determination and any related materials available to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship of the Senate and the Committee on Small Business of the House of Representatives.</text> </clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id46711b79-86dc-4acc-9573-c407b0054b2e"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Maximum amount of award</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The head of a covered Federal agency may not make an award under a pilot program in excess of 3 times the dollar amounts generally established for Phase II awards under subsection (j)(2)(D) or (p)(2)(B)(ix).</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida9a3e638-29b3-427a-906a-d85cfe96e8fb"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Registration</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Any applicant that receives an award under a pilot program shall register with the Administrator in a registry that is available to the public.</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6E285FC0B4DA4A989C76FEAAD713DD05"><enum>(5)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The head of each covered Federal agency shall include in the annual report of the covered Federal agency to the Administrator an analysis of the various activities considered for inclusion in the pilot program of the covered Federal agency and a statement of the reasons why each activity considered was included or not included, as the case may be.</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6fd1bef6-f613-425b-b653-6f2ea7732781"><enum>(6)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Termination</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The authority to establish a pilot program under this section expires at the end of fiscal year 2014.</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9bee1b10-8734-4faa-9943-42111f943054"><enum>(7)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definitions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this subsection—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9903c076-3f79-43f7-9e2a-d808e5c9c389"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the term <term>covered Federal agency</term>—</text> <clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc60ae35c-62ac-40cb-9db5-41e8724979af"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">means a Federal agency participating in the SBIR program or the STTR program; and</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4e601e25-d941-4826-9cd1-3e3a64f2ef5a"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">does not include the Department of Defense; and</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idbe7cb294-f562-408a-a36a-ef7bf56c7122"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the term <term>pilot program</term> means the program established under paragraph (1).</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idfdca4da8-283b-4256-b683-92a8ade45dae" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>206.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Accelerating cures</header> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idDCC638F82D804DA58A07A494704B8194"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 631 et seq.) is amended by inserting after section 42, as redesignated by section 201 of this Act, the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id306f3cc6-aed1-4dbf-b2dc-048fafa1b2d9" style="OLC"> <section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6a32335c-c974-4ff1-9d4c-7032d8ad9261" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>43.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Small Business Innovation Research Program</header> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id86a18903-0689-4d46-8597-c16149c38223"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">NIH cures pilot</header> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9022052a-48cb-4173-b7c2-990193d5ad92"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Establishment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An independent advisory board shall be established at the National Academy of Sciences (in this section referred to as the <quote>advisory board</quote>) to conduct periodic evaluations of the SBIR program (as that term is defined in section 9) of each of the National Institutes of Health (referred to in this section as the <quote>NIH</quote>) institutes and centers for the purpose of improving the management of the SBIR program through data-driven assessment.</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idcbdb862c-6099-4400-ae93-d4e136d2443e"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Membership</header> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id114e5d89-b160-4311-8fa2-543861f09c2e"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The advisory board shall consist of—</text> <clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida7bef066-0512-46cb-aa39-a1a350917b6e"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Director of the NIH;</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idde401212-86de-435a-9ccc-aa9e4120900d"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Director of the SBIR program of the NIH;</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id10260693-bdc0-4daf-9d15-c8e56b70e027"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">senior NIH agency managers, selected by the Director of NIH;</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id030b330d-8aa0-462d-b020-e7d8a4bc22ff"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">industry experts, selected by the Council of the National Academy of Sciences in consultation with the Associate Administrator for Technology of the Administration and the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy; and</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7d9aec03-6def-4ae9-b541-615ed73ee960"><enum>(v)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">owners or operators of small business concerns that have received an award under the SBIR program of the NIH, selected by the Associate Administrator for Technology of the Administration.</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1eae8bff-c33a-4857-827a-a9c4276cc9f9"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Number of members</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The total number of members selected under clauses (iii), (iv), and (v) of subparagraph (A) shall not exceed 10.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9491c790-dd78-4d4f-8fda-14b7b307f598"><enum>(C)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Equal representation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The total number of members of the advisory board selected under clauses (i), (ii), (iii), and (iv) of subparagraph (A) shall be equal to the number of members of the advisory board selected under subparagraph (A)(v).</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id31950dee-a0ed-4db6-8bc2-676bc145a233"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Addressing data gaps</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In order to enhance the evidence-base guiding SBIR program decisions and changes, the Director of the SBIR program of the NIH shall address the gaps and deficiencies in the data collection concerns identified in the 2007 report of the National Academies of Science entitled <quote>An Assessment of the Small Business Innovation Research Program at the NIH</quote>.</text> </subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id105b50f3-008f-4d82-9c45-cdccf45611a5"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Pilot program</header> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb0db0295-6bec-4894-9ccc-53f457db58b7"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Director of the SBIR program of the NIH may initiate a pilot program, under a formal mechanism for designing, implementing, and evaluating pilot programs, to spur innovation and to test new strategies that may enhance the development of cures and therapies.</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id89ae839b-496c-4e41-a9b3-14bca79440a2"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Considerations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Director of the SBIR program of the NIH may consider conducting a pilot program to include individuals with successful SBIR program experience in study sections, hiring individuals with small business development experience for staff positions, separating the commercial and scientific review processes, and examining the impact of the trend toward larger awards on the overall program.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4abc2f86-f114-46e2-ade5-62f347588b64"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Report to Congress</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Director of the NIH shall submit an annual report to Congress and the advisory board on the activities of the SBIR program of the NIH under this section.</text> </subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id40940112-24e3-43b5-86f1-4e883e4740c2"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">SBIR grants and contracts</header> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1523f651-2462-4000-b861-c1b661a97ec7"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In awarding grants and contracts under the SBIR program of the NIH each SBIR program manager shall emphasize applications that identify products, processes, technologies, and services that may enhance the development of cures and therapies.</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idfb5266e0-409a-462e-90a3-dd67f4e97049"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Examination of commercialization and other metrics</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The advisory board shall evaluate the implementation of the requirement under paragraph (1) by examining increased commercialization and other metrics, to be determined and collected by the SBIR program of the NIH.</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id421ee863-5ab6-4491-a90c-c66e6c205c28"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Phase I and II</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">To the greatest extent practicable, the Director of the SBIR program of the NIH shall reduce the time period between Phase I and Phase II funding of grants and contracts under the SBIR program of the NIH to 90 days.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9206a8a1-f7d5-4cba-9b1a-df3347a5eba3"><enum>(f)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Limit</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not more than a total of 1 percent of the extramural budget (as defined in section 9 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638)) of the NIH for research or research and development may be used for the pilot program under subsection (c) and to carry out subsection (e).</text> </subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id78776F1CCAB4440A9357D2CAFDDF0BEF"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Prospective repeal</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Effective 5 years after the date of enactment of this Act, the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 631 et seq.) is amended—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4D6FE0C23FA34C81AA8EF53B9723BB80"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking section 43, as added by subsection (a); and</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idAC4D5A8D195543288F1EA0996CDCB27F"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by redesignating sections 44 and 45 as sections 43 and 44, respectively.</text> </paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID6819367313ea42419f7326d53178d595" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>207.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Federal agency engagement with SBIR and STTR awardees that have been awarded multiple Phase I awards but have not been awarded Phase II awards</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 9 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638), as amended by this Act, is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6C7A9372B0CD4773BAACDB0D3F24A9C6" style="OLC"> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID46499651902148cda6e6c1c6957e6809"><enum>(gg)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Requirements relating to Federal agency engagement with certain Phase I SBIR and STTR awardees</header> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idB054477239174DB190AF82B4D62EE382"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definition</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this subsection, the term <term>covered awardee</term> means a small business concern that—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id52424ABEA17440E7AE111E44FD5FC9DE"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">has received multiple Phase I awards over multiple years, as determined by the head of a Federal agency, under the SBIR program or the STTR program of the Federal agency; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5AAA1DFD476C439FA29385D2D5331EED"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">has not received a Phase II award—</text> <clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idF9D11B82855D4BF7BA8A5681CF20575F"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">under the SBIR program or STTR program, as the case may be, of the Federal agency described in subparagraph (A); or</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD700385EB9BD401CB441CCE2C3A87F3A"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">relating to a Phase I award described in subparagraph (A) under the SBIR program or the STTR program of another Federal agency.</text> </clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id760AFEA939994D69ACAAFEDEE56751A5"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Performance measures</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The head of each Federal agency that participates in the SBIR program or the STTR program shall develop performance measures for any covered awardee relating to commercializing research or research and development activities under the SBIR program or the STTR program of the Federal agency.</text> </paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HCDDA696DEB294DF9832675AEB173EAB6" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>208.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Clarifying the definition of <quote>Phase III</quote></header> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1B489A9892BB44639BC54021C973C4F3"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Phase III awards</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 9(e) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638(e)) is amended—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H7BB142071C5142719D032B66AFA3C850"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (4)(C), in the matter preceding clause (i), by inserting <quote>for work that derives from, extends, or completes efforts made under prior funding agreements under the SBIR program</quote> after <quote>phase</quote>;</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idBF84C13F848A414BAF9304727CE595AA"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (6)(C), in the matter preceding clause (i), by inserting <quote>for work that derives from, extends, or completes efforts made under prior funding agreements under the STTR program</quote> after <quote>phase</quote>;</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3162634F59864D63AF19066430BF0BE0"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (8), by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end;</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1FC6357270854181B9059BDF877D0AB0"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (9), by striking the period at the end and inserting a semicolon; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3947143AB8A342928BBE58BE72D8213C"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4004B18D1FA448239394461A42157454" style="OLC"> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF6AD003F5D104E088AC0F800761B801D"><enum>(10)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the term <term>commercialization</term> means—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id05C555B29CB1428D9C2A5960239BEADC"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the process of developing products, processes, technologies, or services; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id43B5857CFCBF4ECD85513E75AA6FE87C"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the production and delivery of products, processes, technologies, or services for sale (whether by the originating party or by others) to or use by the Federal Government or commercial markets;</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida7680eb0-b499-497e-925f-4b113054bc00"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Technical and conforming amendments</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 631 et seq.) is amended—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idee46025f-ccb4-4aae-8613-fd1a2b516964"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in section 9 (15 U.S.C. 638)—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc12c19d5-0c86-44ba-bf77-9f74466ca826"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (e)—</text> <clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4FE0C778247B4C5D83B8972631812874"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (4)(C)(ii), by striking <quote>scientific review criteria</quote> and inserting <quote>merit-based selection procedures</quote>;</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9e0c784a-257a-4edd-8ab0-52add6ce30c0"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (9), by striking <quote>the second or the third phase</quote> and inserting <quote>Phase II or Phase III</quote>; and</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idf7cd5bdd-f2ba-4331-9917-2b47b202c73c"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id31f57274-8080-40d7-9117-98ddcd98c069" style="OLC"> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2df52403-195d-4b28-9dce-967b87fc464a"><enum>(11)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the term <term>Phase I</term> means—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9a2903c4-7af5-4d42-bf9c-bc5313dd4e8c"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">with respect to the SBIR program, the first phase described in paragraph (4)(A); and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb6bc317b-bc3a-4786-ac8b-572011f70406"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">with respect to the STTR program, the first phase described in paragraph (6)(A);</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idcad8e828-bc8b-4b0b-b8f7-62e1e8b03ba3"><enum>(12)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the term <term>Phase II</term> means—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd779936b-8206-488a-984a-b1ba43dd5f1c"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">with respect to the SBIR program, the second phase described in paragraph (4)(B); and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide03a827d-c1d3-4d82-b42b-8baa12f2581b"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">with respect to the STTR program, the second phase described in paragraph (6)(B); and</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id14970711-f637-43eb-bb16-3b99b090359d"><enum>(13)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the term <term>Phase III</term> means—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id68aa4380-cdd5-4f02-b83a-1b4ba035ba32"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">with respect to the SBIR program, the third phase described in paragraph (4)(C); and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd74a4005-de36-4cab-adb4-fb8d8877a169"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">with respect to the STTR program, the third phase described in paragraph (6)(C).</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida0d19f95-251f-4ccb-8bc9-abcc02975d16"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (j)—</text> <clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id516117b5-2eab-439e-bef9-4df1e256c775"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (1)(B), by striking <quote>phase two</quote> and inserting <quote>Phase II</quote>;</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id47fc91c4-fa20-42e9-a428-042dfc72eee9"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (2)—</text> <subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6ef377ac-ebf5-4bf3-ab87-68cb98767492"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (B)—</text> <item commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb1c9d500-1123-4e3c-8eca-d359fad5830b"><enum>(aa)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>the third phase</quote> each place it appears and inserting <quote>Phase III</quote>; and</text> </item><item commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idf69abddc-3070-4ff6-ac26-dc99b49ddd6c"><enum>(bb)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>the second phase</quote> and inserting <quote>Phase II</quote>;</text> </item></subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4cfde6bb-56cb-4da1-b3d7-07a4b7df118b"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (D)—</text> <item commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc390a4b2-d1e6-4fe4-a9d4-9ba514822920"><enum>(aa)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>the first phase</quote> and inserting <quote>Phase I</quote>; and</text> </item><item commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6bda38eb-ea7b-4e63-bc6d-271d7c16bae2"><enum>(bb)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>the second phase</quote> and inserting <quote>Phase II</quote>;</text> </item></subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="iddc7fb448-fa1d-4bfb-b5fb-110a0322b7e4"><enum>(III)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (F), by striking <quote>the third phase</quote> and inserting <quote>Phase III</quote>;</text> </subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7636776c-7a4f-42e6-9bd1-9d08fd1731a7"><enum>(IV)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (G)—</text> <item commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id562d934c-6fb7-4012-b878-c82204df668d"><enum>(aa)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>the first phase</quote> and inserting <quote>Phase I</quote>; and</text> </item><item commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8ba3bcc4-2ab7-48f9-8434-6c24b91771a1"><enum>(bb)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>the second phase</quote> and inserting <quote>Phase II</quote>; and</text> </item></subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id486664ae-aa0c-4acb-ae1c-fec22ebc224e"><enum>(V)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (H)—</text> <item commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8cf73ef0-4f64-49f8-ab0c-ea4425d0f766"><enum>(aa)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>the first phase</quote> and inserting <quote>Phase I</quote>;</text> </item><item commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id70c19ba6-18d0-4206-9fd1-1d41a7ca5a1b"><enum>(bb)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>second phase</quote> each place it appears and inserting <quote>Phase II</quote>; and</text> </item><item commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idcc7f8747-f57f-478c-a7cf-c9c4996615b2"><enum>(cc)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>third phase</quote> and inserting <quote>Phase III</quote>; and</text> </item></subclause></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id79002371-a5d8-4ba5-97f6-e7683e5fd896"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (3)—</text> <subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc2701556-3b46-4d71-ab0d-0c31fa11c8f2"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (A)—</text> <item commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide6517d87-86db-433a-b7e8-cb8ea55cce8c"><enum>(aa)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>the first phase (as described in subsection (e)(4)(A))</quote> and inserting <quote>Phase I</quote>;</text> </item><item commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6e292373-4c52-4ad2-a4fd-55c1c135578a"><enum>(bb)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>the second phase (as described in subsection (e)(4)(B))</quote> and inserting <quote>Phase II</quote>; and</text> </item><item commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idcbc283c8-ca10-42c5-883a-393ed4a516cc"><enum>(cc)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>the third phase (as described in subsection (e)(4)(C))</quote> and inserting <quote>Phase III</quote>; and</text> </item></subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id95b807ad-ee2e-424a-ba9a-992c3de37190"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (B), by striking <quote>second phase</quote> and inserting <quote>Phase II</quote>;</text> </subclause></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida5e742fc-312a-43a4-8725-f00e38ba1a6d"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (k)—</text> <clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2202f88f-0c40-47cf-98c0-72737ac0b67d"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>first phase</quote> each place it appears and inserting <quote>Phase I</quote>; and</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide49171f7-b983-4b5c-87ff-baef1a6b7b63"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>second phase</quote> each place it appears and inserting <quote>Phase II</quote>;</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd6415960-cf69-44d9-a6e0-02ebb2af8acf"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (l)(2)—</text> <clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida4b06b63-4a32-4eb3-b3cc-80fee0c6cff9"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>the first phase</quote> and inserting <quote>Phase I</quote>; and</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb452b007-da03-44b9-b690-d36988996cc3"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>the second phase</quote> and inserting <quote>Phase II</quote>;</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id236863d4-6bb3-41a6-a64c-ad200ddedb61"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (o)(13)—</text> <clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7e831a77-5d32-4919-963f-e06c0ea9f51b"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (B), by striking <quote>second phase</quote> and inserting <quote>Phase II</quote>; and</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida28fb683-ba51-4f3c-9058-eee4ae7d8dff"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (C), by striking <quote>third phase</quote> and inserting <quote>Phase III</quote>;</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id428e578c-535a-44c0-bcf1-dcd09961cf22"><enum>(F)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (p)—</text> <clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5e5bd479-f92b-455f-8d7a-18444500cc5a"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (2)(B)—</text> <subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4250ef5b-dd02-4d1b-b0d1-0e0efa2ce5b1"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in clause (vi)—</text> <item commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id74d24d2b-5a8e-499a-82a6-1b3c68964a14"><enum>(aa)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>the second phase</quote> and inserting <quote>Phase II</quote>; and</text> </item><item commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4c7287ce-945e-4850-b116-142f76139441"><enum>(bb)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>the third phase</quote> and inserting <quote>Phase III</quote>; and</text> </item></subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id48e100d9-7cd2-42b3-b82a-4588bdb03c1c"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in clause (ix)—</text> <item commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idbb118077-aff7-4394-b6d2-079517afe210"><enum>(aa)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>the first phase</quote> and inserting <quote>Phase I</quote>; and</text> </item><item commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id860ac7b9-baed-4837-ae7b-202c7f9497a8"><enum>(bb)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>the second phase</quote> and inserting <quote>Phase II</quote>; and</text> </item></subclause></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc4a6d185-41e7-493f-8e73-88e1f6f4af48"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (3)—</text> <subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0e69ceea-eee9-459b-a439-fccbbb362d38"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>the first phase (as described in subsection (e)(6)(A))</quote> and inserting <quote>Phase I</quote>;</text> </subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idf1a5fe41-47a3-4765-86c0-409c9d185e2c"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>the second phase (as described in subsection (e)(6)(B))</quote> and inserting <quote>Phase II</quote>; and</text> </subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idcd2b7039-16d6-4256-a61a-1d0dab7c9849"><enum>(III)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>the third phase (as described in subsection (e)(6)(A))</quote> and inserting <quote>Phase III</quote>;</text> </subclause></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8d824968-b2b3-4d02-b161-6726a0b8bc88"><enum>(G)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (q)(3)—</text> <clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idfcee165e-8ebc-4425-b0a3-fda2869a84bb"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (A)—</text> <subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id75841abc-be78-4b5d-827b-c657d1da2795"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the subparagraph heading, by striking <quote><header-in-text level="subparagraph" style="OLC">First phase</header-in-text></quote> and inserting <quote><header-in-text level="subparagraph" style="OLC">Phase I</header-in-text></quote>; and</text> </subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id36098eb4-61fe-4bde-98f3-2583b441b517"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>first phase</quote> and inserting <quote>Phase I</quote>; and</text> </subclause></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5f810131-01ca-428c-b6de-c1c338157922"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (B)—</text> <subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idcf8dc9f1-437d-4b05-bdc8-a452ef7cf97e"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the subparagraph heading, by striking <quote><header-in-text level="subparagraph" style="OLC">Second phase</header-in-text></quote> and inserting <quote><header-in-text level="subparagraph" style="OLC">Phase II</header-in-text></quote>; and</text> </subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4d5d6f38-1e9d-4894-b35f-0677ac2855f4"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>second phase</quote> and inserting <quote>Phase II</quote>;</text> </subclause></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id46560643-8546-4b66-b4fb-ca38c6850d16"><enum>(H)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (r)—</text> <clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7774e1e3-c494-4606-b2ae-c5e91879d6ad"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the subsection heading, by striking <quote><header-in-text level="subsection" style="OLC">Third Phase</header-in-text></quote> and inserting <quote><header-in-text level="subsection" style="OLC">Phase III</header-in-text></quote>;</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3ebf91ac-4a5e-4d8d-9092-632c5089c334"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (1)—</text> <subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3bd56867-ea1b-4c9e-b343-ce044c8330b0"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the first sentence—</text> <item commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2e70abb6-7e81-40ec-98ab-c6a370dd4a11"><enum>(aa)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>for the second phase</quote> and inserting <quote>for Phase II</quote>;</text> </item><item commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idf06d14c6-fe0c-4456-8071-3bb16ff8df41"><enum>(bb)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>third phase</quote> and inserting <quote>Phase III</quote>; and</text> </item><item commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id434c0f74-5847-4155-a0d7-a2f04a06ad90"><enum>(cc)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>second phase period</quote> and inserting <quote>Phase II period</quote>; and</text> </item></subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="iddc8ab72c-a66a-42d0-9f6a-883c4bdd2e06"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the second sentence—</text> <item commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id276480d4-0b06-468a-9d34-fa136021ac95"><enum>(aa)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>second phase</quote> and inserting <quote>Phase II</quote>; and</text> </item><item commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4be8b32a-3b3e-435a-9fef-d4291e8d1fec"><enum>(bb)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>third phase</quote> and inserting <quote>Phase III</quote>; and</text> </item></subclause></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6a900cb9-e45c-45ad-be47-f23e6a3b7665"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (2), by striking <quote>third phase</quote> and inserting <quote>Phase III</quote>; and</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id128c3b4b-4a72-4c9c-9744-481ae25a314d"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (u)(2)(B), by striking <quote>the first phase</quote> and inserting <quote>Phase I</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id013ea5ff-7de6-49d1-9100-d1ab19c30af8"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in section 34(c)(2)(B)(vii) (15 U.S.C. 657e(c)(2)(B)(vii)), as redesignated by section 201 of this Act, by striking <quote>third phase</quote> and inserting <quote>Phase III</quote>.</text> </paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID8d04db865d984e63b9afd1783a467338" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>209.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Shortened period for final decisions on proposals and applications</header> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idB1AD06C9625C41CCAE1B00C3F8733205"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 9 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638) is amended—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idEE4292EE494F40A1BE29CD6021F602BC"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (g)(4)—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA7363D7EE057489CB5878F37F64D2D59"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting <quote>(A)</quote> after <quote>(4)</quote>;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6512DA3DB2934981AB243EFE69A0B5A1"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding <quote>and</quote> after the semicolon at the end; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id13ECB19600A843C381E975E603271D45"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7DEB63A64FF6485A97A22385A422D514" style="OLC"> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE15DD70996564A4F87FFA15AE9FD1DAA" indent="up1"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">make a final decision on each proposal submitted under the SBIR program—</text> <clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5B53632D244D46A88BB47B16B87CC5DC"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">not later than 90 days after the date on which the solicitation closes; or</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id418F319187A649EFAEA245A538799AA9"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">if the Administrator authorizes an extension for a solicitation, not later than 180 days after the date on which the solicitation closes;</text> </clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id27FA2D7DD65D4E25B60ABD9964FDBD39"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (o)(4)—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5ED0CDEE75EF4AC0B8224CB57CC1D1FA"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting <quote>(A)</quote> after <quote>(4)</quote>;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id48F9479DB6F44A6FB6343732CE8B267B"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding <quote>and</quote> after the semicolon at the end; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id199B4A0E86C943F391B9F3BF209125D3"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id42B24BB968E2425BA9775DFB0915FDF5" style="OLC"> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id352C429A6767447BA4213B47F8F167F9" indent="up1"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">make a final decision on each proposal submitted under the STTR program—</text> <clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id15B6C91CDCBA4995BE870148EF8855E6"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">not later than 90 days after the date on which the solicitation closes; or</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id24500654F6F643459BB7981894EF99B6"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">if the Administrator authorizes an extension for a solicitation, not later than 180 days after the date on which the solicitation closes;</text> </clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idCD41DD9A14AD4E7D80B1E4A08F2AC473"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">NIH peer review process</header> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6E1A93F069134CEDAE271A1DFC426D0D"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 9 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638), as amended by this Act, is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id71B5ADF72FB14CF9A45F3DDE86661FCA" style="OLC"> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID918a4df1530d4e82aa735079b91f4ada"><enum>(hh)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">NIH peer review process</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Director of the National Institutes of Health may make an award under the SBIR program or the STTR program of the National Institutes of Health if the application for the award has undergone technical and scientific peer review under section 492 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 289a).</text> </subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC368400E5F7B4A539A7627A305AB6A0A"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Technical and conforming amendments</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 105 of the National Institutes of Health Reform Act of 2006 (42 U.S.C. 284n) is amended—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID373fe38c50dd4b0d989d2bfe0d8cf61b"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (a)(3)—</text> <clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6446393F8DFC41459F16414F17FAC550"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>A grant</quote> and inserting <quote>Except as provided in section 9(hh) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638(hh)), a grant</quote>; and</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id191D33992BF84BF783E0290153E2330B"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>section 402(k)</quote> and all that follows through <quote>Act)</quote> and inserting <quote>section 402(l) of such Act</quote>; and</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID83bc8f136ca240f5babb2307fc804643"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (b)(5)—</text> <clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0094A93413E347768BEB33C7153DDC67"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>A grant</quote> and inserting <quote>Except as provided in section 9(hh) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638(hh)), a grant</quote>; and</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id44AAB33E89D44086B91A976AFE6E5607"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>section 402(k)</quote> and all that follows through <quote>Act)</quote> and inserting <quote>section 402(l) of such Act</quote>.</text> </clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><enum>III</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Oversight and evaluation</header> <section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id09d3598d-6790-4445-a442-bfa18de8a317" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>301.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Streamlining annual evaluation requirements</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 9(b) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638(b)), as amended by section 102 of this Act, is amended—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id95a7d92f-e2d5-4d19-b82e-b8eb801991d7"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (7)—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idfebf9760-8220-41cc-b01e-5162f4d48bc6"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>STTR programs, including the data</quote> and inserting the following: “STTR programs, including—</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6d644ce7-9d2c-4a96-a4b4-8c735dc08912" style="OLC"> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd272c5fd-734c-45c6-80b9-3762a552a26f"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the data</text> </subparagraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id48ad1dda-0f81-4187-826b-6588bdcba8ae"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>(g)(10), (o)(9), and (o)(15), the number</quote> and all that follows through <quote>under each of the SBIR and STTR programs, and a description</quote> and inserting the following: “(g)(8) and (o)(9); and</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id255e42e4-a7e7-492b-bc75-d437fb5f2027" style="OLC"> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id55eb040d-73d8-4e77-adee-7c450f80ec33"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the number of proposals received from, and the number and total amount of awards to, HUBZone small business concerns and firms with venture capital investment (including those majority-owned and controlled by multiple venture capital operating companies) under each of the SBIR and STTR programs;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id914eb4db-041a-4e31-9c6d-db6cdf6e6dcb"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a description of the extent to which each Federal agency is increasing outreach and awards to firms owned and controlled by women and social or economically disadvantaged individuals under each of the SBIR and STTR programs;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idee15d828-8dfe-4f0a-9eca-926d7a056f76"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">general information about the implementation of, and compliance with the allocation of funds required under, subsection (cc) for firms owned in majority part by venture capital operating companies and participating in the SBIR program;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc2101485-8a43-4356-9003-e05b0bb258b4"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a detailed description of appeals of Phase III awards and notices of noncompliance with the SBIR Policy Directive and the STTR Policy Directive filed by the Administrator with Federal agencies; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2eab54f0-c6ac-4889-8a08-de9e651f4b68"><enum>(F)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a description</text> </subparagraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id271d3ebc-4853-424c-b99f-5492a061923b"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting after paragraph (7) the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id36adff77-db6c-4db8-a514-b43368a1a60d" style="OLC"> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idbfe5f62f-f04c-4031-896b-54ea05371f40"><enum>(8)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to coordinate the implementation of electronic databases at each of the Federal agencies participating in the SBIR program or the STTR program, including the technical ability of the participating agencies to electronically share data;</text> </paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2c186831-c4ca-418a-8303-5675a8075062" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>302.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Data collection from agencies for SBIR</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 9(g) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638(g)) is amended—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc3512ad8-ace7-4102-8a45-f9b44b2206fd"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking paragraph (10);</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3ff4ffe4-f0ec-4288-b847-2dffe7144bfb"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by redesignating paragraphs (8) and (9) as paragraphs (9) and (10), respectively; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4ef02fd9-3633-4498-a4d6-ee942e8ba4c5"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting after paragraph (7) the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id18df6286-3fc7-488c-9376-6fd8ce4cf0b7" style="OLC"> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4f8f9d70-dc37-4c2b-b522-900686ee1baa"><enum>(8)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">collect annually, and maintain in a common format in accordance with the simplified reporting requirements under subsection (v), such information from awardees as is necessary to assess the SBIR program, including information necessary to maintain the database described in subsection (k), including—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id80704455-1973-49ef-9325-f322f420a001"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">whether an awardee—</text> <clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7fcfc084-1b7e-414f-9f37-e405009710b8"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">has venture capital or is majority-owned and controlled by multiple venture capital operating companies, and, if so—</text> <subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc527870b-a8ba-4a11-8097-562c39167d9d"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the amount of venture capital that the awardee has received as of the date of the award; and</text> </subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6484553b-07be-49c8-b02b-0c62a5c122a5"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the amount of additional capital that the awardee has invested in the SBIR technology;</text> </subclause></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id73471805-7815-41ed-946a-9c47bb134c44"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">has an investor that—</text> <subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id72d233c1-2065-46c6-9a75-a98e649ba1bf"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is an individual who is not a citizen of the United States or a lawful permanent resident of the United States, and if so, the name of any such individual; or</text> </subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id284e8ced-7643-4cc7-af1f-833ed0875423"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is a person that is not an individual and is not organized under the laws of a State or the United States, and if so the name of any such person;</text> </subclause></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id771aab23-c682-4612-b723-8417eea501fe"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is owned by a woman or has a woman as a principal investigator;</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idf0ef251c-ed35-404e-9450-3e83a8991f4b"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is owned by a socially or economically disadvantaged individual or has a socially or economically disadvantaged individual as a principal investigator;</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8f9d3072-8759-4411-b7d3-cdd772768aba"><enum>(v)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">received assistance under the FAST program under section 34, as in effect on the day before the date of enactment of the <short-title>SBIR/STTR Reauthorization Act of 2010</short-title>, or the outreach program under subsection (s);</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc1b22563-6999-4dea-89f0-d6af800d5f22"><enum>(vi)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is a faculty member or a student of an institution of higher education, as that term is defined in section 101 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001); or</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id429DC10E139D4FC79D46FF7FB0F90CDF"><enum>(vii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is located in a State described in subsection (u)(3); and</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idaa27d4a1-f752-43c1-bfea-f6b58f813791"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a justification statement from the agency, if an awardee receives an award in an amount that is more than the award guidelines under this section;</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc145d289-719a-4d69-912e-8fc5edaa8a9d" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>303.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Data collection from agencies for STTR</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 9(o) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638(o)) is amended by striking paragraph (9) and inserting the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id083f69bc-d638-40d4-b7ed-0b98bea3e0f9" style="OLC"> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6678da2b-2161-434c-a885-3b477842cde3"><enum>(9)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">collect annually, and maintain in a common format in accordance with the simplified reporting requirements under subsection (v), such information from applicants and awardees as is necessary to assess the STTR program outputs and outcomes, including information necessary to maintain the database described in subsection (k), including—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb39eab3b-1475-4e66-945b-67cec1a45a7f"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">whether an applicant or awardee—</text> <clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id270061e2-3a55-4684-b0db-8f0609ca1481"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">has venture capital or is majority-owned and controlled by multiple venture capital operating companies, and, if so—</text> <subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida741ea72-7cf7-40f5-a4ed-af7ca70c7326"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the amount of venture capital that the applicant or awardee has received as of the date of the application or award, as applicable; and</text> </subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id97cceb39-6245-4112-89d4-46b42b161d23"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the amount of additional capital that the applicant or awardee has invested in the SBIR technology;</text> </subclause></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2cbfdfed-f644-4167-a53a-cec84ac9d0c2"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">has an investor that—</text> <subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id637602e3-34e3-40bf-9c46-27c7630e98e3"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is an individual who is not a citizen of the United States or a lawful permanent resident of the United States, and if so, the name of any such individual; or</text> </subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1a2a2700-e8b3-422e-8cbb-fe1c04733f95"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is a person that is not an individual and is not organized under the laws of a State or the United States, and if so the name of any such person;</text> </subclause></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5864d5a1-51df-4390-9b8c-020ba412de2f"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is owned by a woman or has a woman as a principal investigator;</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id78b4e3b9-6cb4-4a2d-8ebf-58169e1552da"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is owned by a socially or economically disadvantaged individual or has a socially or economically disadvantaged individual as a principal investigator;</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb6654d17-fd56-4c79-9169-ec5d16d12108"><enum>(v)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">received assistance under the FAST program under section 34 or the outreach program under subsection (s);</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8e93be89-f3d2-49de-8d50-81522fe51b13"><enum>(vi)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is a faculty member or a student of an institution of higher education, as that term is defined in section 101 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001); or</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA430D15CD22945FFBBDBEC22157F095B"><enum>(vii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is located in a State in which the total value of contracts awarded to small business concerns under all STTR programs is less than the total value of contracts awarded to small business concerns in a majority of other States, as determined by the Administrator in biennial fiscal years, beginning with fiscal year 2008, based on the most recent statistics compiled by the Administrator; and</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb9487b9e-a0ca-4afc-9eb9-3f35976f439d"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">if an awardee receives an award in an amount that is more than the award guidelines under this section, a statement from the agency that justifies the award amount;</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3c5b3b28-dddc-425d-99f8-7c4cb09140ed" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>304.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Public database</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 9(k)(1) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638(k)(1)) is amended—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id66eb31e5-0d8f-4a5b-a3e3-569d46318dbf"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (D), by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end;</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idee8376ad-753a-41e7-80a2-cd4f3de2e1d6"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (E), by striking the period at the end and inserting <quote>; and</quote>; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb8411942-95f4-403d-a3ed-d0756b04d11c"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id746febe7-37bd-4e79-bdda-623eb3315c7b" style="OLC"> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4fe0472c-5842-4c15-af6c-0e6ef7c1ede6"><enum>(F)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for each small business concern that has received a Phase I or Phase II SBIR or STTR award from a Federal agency, whether the small business concern—</text> <clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4632a815-ce5e-4b9c-a803-1f915863048e"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">has venture capital and, if so, whether the small business concern is registered as majority-owned and controlled by multiple venture capital operating companies as required under subsection (cc)(4);</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6e4c67fa-b057-42ee-82cf-167ad36d80b9"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is owned by a woman or has a woman as a principal investigator;</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id173a4fc4-d9fe-44df-80a3-befbd99c424a"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is owned by a socially or economically disadvantaged individual or has a socially or economically disadvantaged individual as a principal investigator;</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id285054d9-ca4c-4f5f-9e05-1986f5a8171d"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">received assistance under the FAST program under section 34, as in effect on the day before the date of enactment of the <short-title>SBIR/STTR Reauthorization Act of 2010</short-title>, or the outreach program under subsection (s); or</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7358a4aa-250c-4b40-ab32-0ef7b427e729"><enum>(v)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is owned by a faculty member or a student of an institution of higher education, as that term is defined in section 101 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001).</text> </clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb60a0e66-3e93-4593-828b-7dc8c5c2c1e7" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>305.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Government database</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 9(k) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638(k)) is amended—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1e64369f-b41f-48df-adf0-bf4f8c34d725"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (2)—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id060B661AA9414B8F821CD51B077C26D0"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by striking <quote>Not later</quote> and all that follows through <quote>Act of 2000</quote> and inserting <quote>Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of the <short-title>SBIR/STTR Reauthorization Act of 2010</short-title></quote>;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idF25F86DB0A0B40EF8D146C31A51C43FA"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking subparagraph (C);</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8FDB692699CB48D29544BB9539CA2172"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by redesignating subparagraphs (A) and (B) as subparagraphs (B) and (C), respectively;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id566971F1B1E94F2E9FEA92CAB9E8BF03"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting before subparagraph (B), as so redesignated, the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id210BBE68DD5F4E2B8CA08D3B8547983C" style="OLC"> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id16656E8E2643450AA1BCF9C37FC3A315"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">contains, for each small business concern that applies for, submits a proposal for, or receives an award under Phase I or Phase II of the SBIR program or the STTR program—</text> <clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id51AE11CCBA434E77BE3E1C7AB91AF802"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the name, size, and location, and an identifying number assigned by the Administration of the small business concern;</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE9B1D2ED79154650B63A95B1C5C12A92"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an abstract of the project;</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id959C96670BFD4426892342EA3F6FE811"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the specific aims of the project;</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id12B03B3DD54648BD9F776432A35EE11C"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the number of employees of the small business concern;</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id92EF5F18CB8A40DEB063923302ACF2DD"><enum>(v)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the names of key individuals that will carry out the project;</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idFCB23662DB14414D83ED81593DA9CEAB"><enum>(vi)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the percentage of effort each individual described in clause (iv) will contribute to the project;</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idB4F4CF674337405591440F6EB4C79D42"><enum>(vii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">whether the small business concern is majority-owned and controlled by multiple venture capital operating companies; and</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9D1A7CE2CD054A44A2236CFB695BE82B"><enum>(viii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Federal agency to which the application is made, and contact information for the person or office within the Federal agency that is responsible for reviewing applications and making awards under the SBIR program or the STTR program;</text> </clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2C051ADE028E4D469202BBAE80390CCF"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by redesignating subparagraphs (D), and (E) as subparagraphs (E) and (F), respectively;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5803e8a5-7f5a-4e5f-b56f-eb8f20eb2736"><enum>(F)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting after subparagraph (C), as so redesignated, the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0d5e247b-673b-43da-9bd0-3f9c7bd3ffd8" style="OLC"> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3d706111-b188-4fc6-a9c8-5e23fe92dfcc"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">includes, for each awardee—</text> <clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idf53a5540-a152-470a-b16b-df58b40d6717"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the name, size, location, and any identifying number assigned to the awardee by the Administrator;</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id272138eb-1c55-44fc-8727-d7b2d3d1a601"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">whether the awardee has venture capital, and, if so—</text> <subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id496c2af6-ce6d-40a8-8d3a-26412350d971"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the amount of venture capital as of the date of the award;</text> </subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id73a8f3e7-34ab-45a8-b8fb-4ed143e9917f"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the percentage of ownership of the awardee held by a venture capital operating company, including whether the awardee is majority-owned and controlled by multiple venture capital operating companies; and</text> </subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9df21aae-2275-4092-b50b-d7814c24fb65"><enum>(III)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the amount of additional capital that the awardee has invested in the SBIR technology, which information shall be collected on an annual basis;</text> </subclause></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id98b0ad5d-89a1-43b0-98d4-4162561936da"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the names and locations of any affiliates of the awardee;</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb5b8c778-0d28-4595-8162-a54e851e769b"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the number of employees of the awardee;</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4e73c547-d6a8-42f8-bcd9-d42adc39e3df"><enum>(v)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the number of employees of the affiliates of the awardee; and</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id52b6acfb-b4c4-45fd-b2ad-9b45f6cd3f9d"><enum>(vi)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the names of, and the percentage of ownership of the awardee held by—</text> <subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6bc06b05-64bc-43ee-bc13-9c28b837f6f6"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">any individual who is not a citizen of the United States or a lawful permanent resident of the United States; or</text> </subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide709fd78-96cc-4ad0-8286-55e529127f4c"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">any person that is not an individual and is not organized under the laws of a State or the United States;</text> </subclause></clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idAF09D58188E047B3877412FFCF04A514"><enum>(G)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (E), as so redesignated, by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1449E9D6313442BE8088D18A24325A41"><enum>(H)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (F), as so redesignated, by striking the period at the end and inserting <quote>; and</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id01CEB2496FBE45808DE1F30320BF3888"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8E108157CB2D4FDE99E690B6B2AABBAD" style="OLC"> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id296EB2C695864CB0946F3CC6A038986D"><enum>(G)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">includes a timely and accurate list of any individual or small business concern that has participated in the SBIR program or STTR program that has committed fraud, waste, or abuse relating to the SBIR program or STTR program.</text> </subparagraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9D5BC66CD8A34A63896FA1F60283EAE8"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (3), by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id03A97367377D40669B6D8D7D0CF3CD13" style="OLC"> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id61C028EB3EB34C1C8E4DEB4178C00170"><enum>(C)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Government database</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 60 days after the date established by a Federal agency for submitting applications or proposals for a Phase I or Phase II award under the SBIR program or STTR program, the head of the Federal agency shall submit to the Administrator the data required under paragraph (2) with respect to each small business concern that applies or submits a proposal for the Phase I or Phase II award.</text> </subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3769e284-aa02-46a5-9b2a-dc1c33e2a6eb" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>306.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Accuracy in funding base calculations</header> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2050de40-1536-4517-ac03-9c1a8ed2ff03"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, and every year thereafter until the date that is 4 years after the date of enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United States shall—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6710e3b4-3276-4b56-a1f6-693ec0fbc9e4"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">conduct a fiscal and management audit of the SBIR program and the STTR program for the applicable period to—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb0c8c8b8-3868-4bec-a769-42e9d2e6c244"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">determine whether Federal agencies comply with the expenditure amount requirements under subsections (f)(1) and (n)(1) of section 9 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638), as amended by this Act;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2a6c364b-5ec9-4b8f-9b09-0ca6f2ba11ad"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">assess the extent of compliance with the requirements of section 9(i)(2) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638(i)(2)) by Federal agencies participating in the SBIR program or the STTR program and the Administration;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida2c7982f-ac09-4f38-97f4-a2a8f90b4f3d"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">assess whether it would be more consistent and effective to base the amount of the allocations under the SBIR program and the STTR program on a percentage of the research and development budget of a Federal agency, rather than the extramural budget of the Federal agency; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id800f7cad-1951-4db2-b68f-1de20cbd118b"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">determine the portion of the extramural research or research and development budget of a Federal agency that each Federal agency spends for administrative purposes relating to the SBIR program or STTR program, and for what specific purposes, including the portion, if any, of such budget the Federal agency spends for salaries and expenses, travel to visit applicants, outreach events, marketing, and technical assistance; and</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ided95f7c0-7f96-42c2-b30f-2eb23b2f1a0e"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">submit a report to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship of the Senate and the Committee on Small Business of the House of Representatives regarding the audit conducted under paragraph (1), including the assessments required under subparagraphs (B) and (C), and the determination made under subparagraph (D) of paragraph (1).</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id100c3935-bf42-4840-a469-dd5ff3b8a0eb"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definition of applicable period</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this section, the term <term>applicable period</term> means—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idcd8873f1-fcbc-4ea6-b31b-b34026f96f38"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for the first report submitted under this section, the period beginning on October 1, 2004, and ending on September 30 of the last full fiscal year before the date of enactment of this Act for which information is available; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idf2bd5d86-7189-4786-a16f-60f7eecb08ca"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for the second and each subsequent report submitted under this section, the period—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id06118b85-08fe-4886-a2a1-967f3c4b7999"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">beginning on October 1 of the first fiscal year after the end of the most recent full fiscal year relating to which a report under this section was submitted; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id070b174a-7737-4868-b2ea-2365ed2d9e72"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">ending on September 30 of the last full fiscal year before the date of the report.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0c9e8491-71eb-43bc-afe7-a69f43f05abd" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>307.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Continued evaluation by the National Academy of Sciences</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 108 of the Small Business Reauthorization Act of 2000 (15 U.S.C. 638 note) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide72d2aba-4a69-4bfa-8a09-54e3fea76a1f" style="OLC"> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0a8c7124-add2-45fd-95d5-4e833eee3892"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Extensions and enhancements of authority</header> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida306be22-a378-4c53-bc61-528d7e05eda1"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 6 months after the date of enactment of the <short-title>SBIR/STTR Reauthorization Act of 2010</short-title>, the head of each agency described in subsection (a), in consultation with the Small Business Administration, shall cooperatively enter into an agreement with the National Academy of Sciences for the National Research Council to, not later than 4 years after the date of enactment of the <short-title>SBIR/STTR Reauthorization Act of 2010</short-title>, and every 4 years thereafter—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idFA13159C1A354F1DB97157FE239F7D83"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">continue the most recent study under this section relating to—</text> <clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4B01F7169120457F82D9139C239E9A9C"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the issues described in subparagraphs (A), (B), (C), and (E) of subsection (a)(1); and</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDd8490b7df1de41d19da8ed51a739b36a"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the effectiveness of the government and public databases described in section 9(k) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638(k)) in reducing vulnerabilities of the SBIR program and the STTR program to fraud, waste, and abuse, particularly with respect to Federal agencies funding duplicative proposals and business concerns falsifying information in proposals;</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3463E333AB92424891083E52BCEFD842"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">make recommendations with respect to the issues described in subparagraph (A)(ii) and subparagraphs (A), (D), and (E) of subsection (a)(2).</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA59CFDD376C84DF3AE3CACD043C161F6"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Consultation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An agreement under paragraph (1) shall require the National Research Council to ensure there is participation by and consultation with the small business community, the Administration, and other interested parties as described in subsection (b).</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7f6ab919-7edf-463b-b965-a58876cef510"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Reporting</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An agreement under paragraph (1) shall require that not later than 4 years after the date of enactment of the <short-title>SBIR/STTR Reauthorization Act of 2010</short-title>, and every 4 years thereafter, the National Research Council shall submit to the head of the agency entering into the agreement, the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship of the Senate, and the Committee on Small Business of the House of Representatives a report regarding the study conducted under paragraph (1) and containing the recommendations described in paragraph (1).</text> </paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id77481463-24f2-437f-b7df-ee51b59e7a55" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>308.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Technology insertion reporting requirements</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 9 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638), as amended by this Act, is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3a049e04-e3df-4f51-9d3a-1d6b0747193e" style="OLC"> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida97bf1d1-d18c-4280-b720-d381cfbd8490"><enum>(ii)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Phase III reporting</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The annual SBIR or STTR report to Congress by the Administration under subsection (b)(7) shall include, for each Phase III award made by the Federal agency—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide644eca0-5d0f-4afc-87e8-863b3975d44c"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the name of the agency or component of the agency or the non-Federal source of capital making the Phase III award;</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0a3a9316-089b-43bc-84e5-7632e1b9309b"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the name of the small business concern or individual receiving the Phase III award; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5a0a182c-6128-4302-b27f-9a5254167452"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the dollar amount of the Phase III award.</text> </paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id087bb8f8-8ce0-4fce-a909-47ad8912b07c" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>309.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Intellectual property protections</header> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id33987e0b-9976-437b-be7d-9739b16c5dbd"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Comptroller General of the United States shall conduct a study of the SBIR program to assess whether—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7e1fb080-eeea-4c0c-a261-3f521722f804"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Federal agencies comply with the data rights protections for SBIR awardees and the technologies of SBIR awardees under section 9 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638);</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id59c84b1d-3441-4bd5-ad02-0957c3d5ea8d"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the laws and policy directives intended to clarify the scope of data rights, including in prototypes and mentor-protégé relationships and agreements with Federal laboratories, are sufficient to protect SBIR awardees; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id57597d40-a40e-42f8-8b15-9c7c4a78612f"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">there is an effective grievance tracking process for SBIR awardees who have grievances against a Federal agency regarding data rights and a process for resolving those grievances.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2f230920-f819-491c-a43f-189c5ddafa13"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 18 months after the date of enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General shall submit to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship of the Senate and the Committee on Small Business of the House of Representatives a report regarding the study conducted under subsection (a).</text> </subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID6da0f4d8ef704cf1bdf327b8490088ab" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>310.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Obtaining consent from SBIR and STTR applicants to release contact information to economic development organizations</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 9 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638), as amended by this Act, is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1752375BC4AD4B6F857C151FD7FD3C76" style="OLC"> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H095ED00AB5954435A8DA32129357B907"><enum>(jj)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Consent To release contact information to organizations</header> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idCC732AA91B194AA9AFB68B6F86F6C9DB"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Enabling concern to give consent</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Each Federal agency required by this section to conduct an SBIR program or an STTR program shall enable a small business concern that is an SBIR applicant or an STTR applicant to indicate to the Federal agency whether the Federal agency has the consent of the concern to—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id89D6DC6E8C8C48D5B40836D2F7CEBAD1"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">identify the concern to appropriate local and State-level economic development organizations as an SBIR applicant or an STTR applicant; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6D6AF5A39F374A57826A0657CC48CE20"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">release the contact information of the concern to such organizations.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id29BA982088A24D9C96C2D0476D5DA009"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Rules</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator shall establish rules to implement this subsection. The rules shall include a requirement that a Federal agency include in the SBIR and STTR application a provision through which the applicant can indicate consent for purposes of paragraph (1).</text> </paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDbab8c5810b324fbcbf71d2d2f030c700" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>311.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Pilot to allow funding for administrative, oversight, and contract processing costs</header> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id02314D16DADA40F099CAEC9DD7B32ACE"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 9 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638), as amended by this Act, is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2FBA85012632442CA5B30867DA62EE62" style="OLC"> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID6396d94fd89641efb76393c52e389d29"><enum>(kk)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Assistance for administrative, oversight, and contract processing costs</header> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID48547972791846afa567b545f5c6825c"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subject to paragraph (3), the Administrator shall allow each Federal agency required to conduct an SBIR program to use not more than 3 percent of the funds allocated to the SBIR program of the Federal agency—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0DB4B816E48B4188A9730398A05D8F2E"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for the first fiscal year beginning after the date of enactment of this subsection, and each fiscal year thereafter through fiscal year 2018, for costs relating to administrative, oversight, and contract processing activities for the SBIR program that the Federal agency was not carrying out during the last full fiscal year before the date of enactment of this subsection, including activities described in paragraph (2); and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID8f6e2bf3e31c473a86310e8e2f0df8d3"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for the first 3 fiscal years beginning after the date of enactment of this subsection, for—</text> <clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7B4FE91551DC40AE9F212F64DAFE24E5"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">administration of the SBIR program or the STTR program;</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5DA94FD2BF754B81AFC88CE1F554BFA2"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">implementation of commercialization and outreach initiatives that were not in effect on the date of enactment of this subsection;</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idDFCF4405D05C49098CC49A52F43B89BD"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">carrying out the program under subsection (y);</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE85BE41B6DF746A28986FC34A9F35E34"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">activities relating to oversight and congressional reporting, including the waste, fraud, and abuse prevention activities described in section 313(a)(1)(B)(ii) of the <short-title>SBIR/STTR Reauthorization Act of 2010</short-title>;</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id95D648E4C579432780C9C9208802BF41"><enum>(v)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">carrying out subsection (cc);</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE448F45974CD4F88A375F447E461740A"><enum>(vi)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">carrying out subsection (ff);</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6B727A0C48924B8FA0286E159F12F05D"><enum>(vii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">contract processing costs relating to the SBIR program; and</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD520BCAA7E5F4334BDBC3D525E966FB1"><enum>(viii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">funding for additional personnel and assistance with application reviews.</text> </clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDa161f2cf5f6d42c09117916abd65b7c1"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Activities</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The activities described in this paragraph include—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID1fdea5eb51fa478dafdc164f85686542"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the administration of the SBIR program or the STTR program of a Federal agency;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID232fc64d18a84c5fa16cf76bc8177c4d"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the provision of outreach and technical assistance relating to the SBIR program of a Federal agency, including technical assistance site visits and personnel interviews;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID52092cd1275a48be8c3cc7bfc9bb4546"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">contract processing;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID5840982caaca49d1ada027ae0db073e8"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the implementation of oversight and quality control measures, including verification of reports and invoices and cost reviews; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDcca5f01b584a44b5afdcaf2700791ba2"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">targeted reviews of recipients of awards under the SBIR program that the head of a Federal agency determines are at high risk for fraud, waste, or abuse, to ensure compliance with requirements of the SBIR program.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDa4b9f0d4c0ed4e86a2ae47874b63aa4c"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Performance criteria</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A Federal agency may not use funds as authorized under paragraph (1) until after the effective date of performance criteria, which the Administrator shall establish, to measure any benefits of using funds as authorized under paragraph (1) and to assess continuation of the authority under paragraph (1).</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDb2bf6a2357474ca7b61592950d499f10"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Rules</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this subsection, the Administrator shall issue rules to carry out this subsection.</text> </paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idAAA78E24BBCB47EBB69CB8402C5BD706"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Technical and conforming amendments</header> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3E222D08500A4D139F68CEF047C81160"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 9 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638) is amended—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id983FF23CAC5A499C915FC66F1A7B5E9C"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (f)(2)(A), as so designated by section 103(2) of this Act, by striking <quote>shall not</quote> and all that follows through <quote>make available for the purpose</quote> and inserting <quote>shall not make available for the purpose</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0E62CD8017C54357B69B9CC9B833128F"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (y), as amended by section 204—</text> <clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id24F2CD3FA2544869AEF2B5B7405B3C5C"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking paragraph (4);</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8F3A4F777D04418CAFF2518581E434DA"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by redesignating paragraphs (5) and (6) as paragraphs (4) and (5), respectively.</text> </clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idF79AB2E166664A85AC92F409D7BB57C9"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Transitional rule</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding the amendments made by paragraph (1), subsection (f)(2)(A) and (y)(4) of section 9 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638), as in effect on the day before the date of enactment of this Act, shall continue to apply to each Federal agency until the effective date of the performance criteria established by the Administrator under subsection (kk)(3) of section 9 of the Small Business Act, as added by subsection (a).</text> </paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDfcdf2f49f3444aeb84e8f43c047f1000" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>312.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">GAO study with respect to venture capital operating company involvement</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Not later than 3 years after the date of enactment of this Act, and every 3 years thereafter, the Comptroller General of the United States shall—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id76AD258A973045C098C52754F34A6A3F"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">conduct a study of the impact of requirements relating to venture capital operating company involvement under section 9(cc) of the Small Business Act, as added by section 108 of this Act; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6E3C81FC54B84568BD61F263B0D6D516"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">submit to Congress a report regarding the study conducted under paragraph (1).</text> </paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id56A08212511E48FC8750F5FA6072201D" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>313.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Reducing vulnerability of SBIR and STTR programs to fraud, waste, and abuse</header> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idAF5FC36028A64467A53FAC1BB4306B3E"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Fraud, waste, and abuse prevention</header> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4E05B435972B46BEB6067AA4039F0F7D"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Guidelines for fraud, waste, and abuse prevention</header> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4986A68CF5654D8AB0A60E8A2C86DA34"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Amendments required</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall amend the SBIR Policy Directive and the STTR Policy Directive to include measures to prevent fraud, waste, and abuse in the SBIR program and the STTR program.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2FB3595C559A4B1CAF47B86E67FFAC82"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Content of amendments</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The amendments required under subparagraph (A) shall include—</text> <clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6007BC997A414E85AE61138A5C3E1E77"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">definitions or descriptions of fraud, waste, and abuse;</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idADBDEEEBB807412BAF375748214FE117"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a requirement that the Inspectors General of each Federal agency that participates in the SBIR program or the STTR program cooperate to—</text> <subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2D4C073865D0410B9B0769E4FE59937B"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">establish fraud detection indicators;</text> </subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9DB5EBDF35E64AB6917D8CDC00EB2498"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">review regulations and operating procedures of the Federal agencies;</text> </subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA9356323C2B74D9E9F0B0EFD3B6DC334"><enum>(III)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">coordinate information sharing between the Federal agencies; and</text> </subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idAA4B085E8A4048708EB1D8F4423B40F1"><enum>(IV)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">improve the education and training of, and outreach to—</text> <item commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC3385869471F404E9904B3D361E60512"><enum>(aa)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">administrators of the SBIR program and the STTR program of each Federal agency;</text> </item><item commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id63D8991410AA4D58A032E34C19CC61C2"><enum>(bb)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">applicants to the SBIR program or the STTR program; and</text> </item><item commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id873237C673A84E25BCE4F57F977806D0"><enum>(cc)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">recipients of awards under the SBIR program or the STTR program;</text> </item></subclause></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id272D497834674D478CED3579EE130EFC"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">guidelines for the monitoring and oversight of applicants to and recipients of awards under the SBIR program or the STTR program; and</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id04AACD6FCA2E48CC87782DE9AF11370D"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a requirement that each Federal agency that participates in the SBIR program or STTR program include the telephone number of the hotline established under paragraph (2)—</text> <subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3EEA6CFAF4EF436BB6E84D148C825516"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">on the website of the Federal agency; and</text> </subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE644493B5CDC4EDDBCB2390B4EC38092"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in any solicitation or notice of funding opportunity issued by the Federal agency for the SBIR program or the STTR program.</text> </subclause></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id30C27366FE5245529100F349ED1162B3"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Fraud, waste, and abuse prevention hotline</header> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id329FD694DD3F4712A58B91A1FD0936AC"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Hotline established</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator shall establish a telephone hotline that allows individuals to report fraud, waste, and abuse in the SBIR program or STTR program.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE3089D9F704445928B3DBC8B2D2DE437"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Publication</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator shall include the telephone number for the hotline established under subparagraph (A) on the website of the Administration.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id642D8CA4C53C442EAC2E7878D25EB30C"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Study and report</header> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0BA6D6B584F242C89651B7405E05F244"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Study</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, and every 3 years thereafter, the Comptroller General of the United States shall—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idCDFF2848A2B44860B292522AD3134C86"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">conduct a study that evaluates—</text> <clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idAF1E3348DD674B3CA6E891A2FAFCF408"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the implementation by each Federal agency that participates in the SBIR program or the STTR program of the amendments to the SBIR Policy Directive and the STTR Policy Directive made pursuant to subsection (a);</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idBB609CDB92B84539A817705FCCD21682"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the effectiveness of the management information system of each Federal agency that participates in the SBIR program or STTR program in identifying duplicative SBIR and STTR projects;</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id23E2561B839C48E8A648C438D0EB52D9"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the effectiveness of the risk management strategies of each Federal agency that participates in the SBIR program or STTR program in identifying areas of the SBIR program or the STTR program that are at high risk for fraud;</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0BD57ECB72F348CC961BE9720B161457"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">technological tools that may be used to detect patterns of behavior that may indicate fraud by applicants to the SBIR program or the STTR program;</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idDD281F28F41D4338BC3CBCD7004865E2"><enum>(v)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the success of each Federal agency that participates in the SBIR program or STTR program in reducing fraud, waste, and abuse in the SBIR program or the STTR program of the Federal agency; and</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0ABD7720B2AA432CAD9C2F0EED5CC99B"><enum>(vi)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the extent to which the Inspector General of each Federal agency that participates in the SBIR program or STTR program effectively conducts investigations of individuals alleged to have submitted false claims or violated Federal law relating to fraud, conflicts of interest, bribery, gratuity, or other misconduct; and</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD1057296113C461088634660A526A3A1"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">submit to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship of the Senate, the Committee on Small Business of the House of Representatives, and the head of each Federal agency that participates in the SBIR program or STTR program a report on the results of the study conducted under subparagraph (A).</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id974516530127422AB007A9DC0749ED6E" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>314.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Interagency policy committee</header> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDb1587b08c1484da2be74264b07b27eb7"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Establishment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (in this section referred to as the <quote>Director</quote>), in conjunction with the Administrator, shall establish an Interagency SBIR/STTR Policy Committee (in this section referred to as the <quote>Committee</quote>) comprised of 1 representative from each Federal agency with an SBIR program or an STTR program and 1 representative of the Office of Management and Budget.</text> </subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID293b3d903390432d8a195eb9a1a7501c"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Cochairpersons</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Director and the Administrator shall serve as cochairpersons of the Committee.</text> </subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc93acb4387034d3081100fae2d84aa2d"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Duties</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Committee shall review, and make policy recommendations on ways to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of, the SBIR program and the STTR program, including —</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDedc5998b983846c9af88e7634c849283"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">reviewing the effectiveness of the public and government databases described in section 9(k) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638(k));</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDfdfcfcc31e534cdaa3c14453b784b682"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">identifying—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id15868788B72F4ACD9039507977C9178F"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">best practices for commercialization assistance by Federal agencies that have significant potential to be employed by other Federal agencies; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idAB017767A5AC44E88C45A3061D6F228C"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">proposals by Federal agencies for initiatives to address challenges for small business concerns in obtaining funding after a Phase II award ends and before commercialization; and</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID38eb9e7e6cd54395be12d89087ca9281"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">developing and incorporating a standard evaluation framework to enable systematic assessment of the SBIR program and STTR program, including through improved tracking of awards and outcomes and development of performance measures for the SBIR program and STTR program of each Federal agency.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDb8d7f753608e4e8cb52538fcff1f20d8"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Reports</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Committee shall submit to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship of the Senate and the Committee on Science and Technology and the Committee on Small Business of the House of Representatives—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID3b64430e981b4de6b0f0037a632c1c6c"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a report on the review by and recommendations of the Committee under subsection (c)(1) not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act;</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID1bb7aa0796d645c9ab1b55c8fc7e26c2"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a report on the review by and recommendations of the Committee under subsection (c)(2) not later than 18 months after the date of enactment of this Act; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID5b8b70e7f798495a80ddeb1bb102a3ff"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a report on the review by and recommendations of the Committee under subsection (c)(3) not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this Act.</text> </paragraph></subsection></section><enum>IV</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Policy directives</header> <section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idda98e1cb-ea17-486b-ac3b-72c4e584f7ac" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>401.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Conforming amendments to the SBIR and the STTR Policy Directives</header> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9475faaa-3cd7-4ae1-9407-0e9ca6342cf6"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall promulgate amendments to the SBIR Policy Directive and the STTR Policy Directive to conform such directives to this Act and the amendments made by this Act.</text> </subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id99734e08-264c-4092-a041-f383846c73a9"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Publishing SBIR Policy Directive and the STTR Policy Directive in the Federal Register</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall publish the amended SBIR Policy Directive and the amended STTR Policy Directive in the Federal Register.</text> </subsection></section><enum>V</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Other provisions</header> <section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA42602D1E72B44BCA0FE369ABBC99039" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>501.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Research topics and program diversification</header> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id366410F0753942A582326C522F9842F9"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">SBIR program</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 9(g) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638(g)) is amended—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id41BA3CB9E82445848196914D2AA2E092"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (3)—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8B84E813E24E40F1B171B23481BA201A"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by striking <quote>broad research topics and to topics that further 1 or more critical technologies</quote> and inserting <quote>applications to the Federal agency for support of projects relating to nanotechnology, rare diseases, security, energy, transportation, or improving the security and quality of the water supply of the United States, and the efficiency of water delivery systems and usage patterns in the United States (including the territories of the United States) through the use of technology (to the extent that the projects relate to the mission of the Federal agency), broad research topics, and topics that further 1 or more critical technologies or research priorities</quote>;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1DA372192E23487E92DF1D2A2C528E91"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (A), by striking <quote>or</quote> at the end; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id975FEE26CB3641259BAF6497D69BC066"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id92FA0C067313448EB3A5B8183F010E2A" style="OLC"> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id85AF29D39BBB401EA9B7978F29E796BE"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the National Academy of Sciences, in the final report issued by the <quote>America's Energy Future: Technology Opportunities, Risks, and Tradeoffs</quote> project, and in any subsequent report by the National Academy of Sciences on sustainability, energy, or alternative fuels;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDcd7e70b7bfbc4d02ba45029878bdcc2b"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the National Institutes of Health, in the annual report on the rare diseases research activities of the National Institutes of Health for fiscal year 2005, and in any subsequent report by the National Institutes of Health on rare diseases research activities;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID9069892d265d45608c6ed6ca1aa29f99"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the National Academy of Sciences, in the final report issued by the <quote>Transit Research and Development: Federal Role in the National Program</quote> project and the report entitled <quote>Transportation Research, Development and Technology Strategic Plan (2006–2010)</quote> issued by the Research and Innovative Technology Administration of the Department of Transportation, and in any subsequent report issued by the National Academy of Sciences or the Department of Transportation on transportation and infrastructure; or</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID1f970f95b7844534b6d7e7e1fba4fa60"><enum>(F)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the national nanotechnology strategic plan required under section 2(c)(4) of the 21st Century Nanotechnology Research and Development Act (15 U.S.C. 7501(c)(4)) and in any report issued by the National Science and Technology Council Committee on Technology that focuses on areas of nanotechnology identified in such plan;</text> </subparagraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id443F67F5710240CF9CE58D6DC9286A10"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding after paragraph (12), as added by section 111(a) of this Act, the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9CD3D1F93CDC4FA2B934C7C28FAB1935" style="OLC"> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idAB13321C02EC4D778292D011796C9294"><enum>(13)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">encourage applications under the SBIR program (to the extent that the projects relate to the mission of the Federal agency)—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idCBC0E7ABEE2C49868541682CA5851DAE"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">from small business concerns in geographic areas underrepresented in the SBIR program or located in rural areas (as defined in section 1393(a)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986);</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id715AD02629FB46AAABE362F5D1A02C95"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">small business concerns owned and controlled by women;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE7108C8701A64A85811372CAA9439919"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">small business concerns owned and controlled by veterans;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id14FA44EB2A334C05964BAF6FE9E26088"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">small business concerns owned and controlled by Native Americans; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9F9993ABC6C0460398EC9E930442095C"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">small business concerns located in a geographic area with an unemployment rates that exceed the national unemployment rate, based on the most recently available monthly publications of the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id60170490BB68465F88A7736F7E2EE820"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">STTR program</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 9(o) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638(o)), as amended by section 111(b) of this Act, is amended—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6154DC4CDF854D40B8D2D19729C14C72"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (3)—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9B6118D26FB84F69BE87E6FB8E4F8AAE"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by striking <quote>broad research topics and to topics that further 1 or more critical technologies</quote> and inserting <quote>applications to the Federal agency for support of projects relating to nanotechnology, security, energy, rare diseases, transportation, or improving the security and quality of the water supply of the United States (to the extent that the projects relate to the mission of the Federal agency), broad research topics, and topics that further 1 or more critical technologies or research priorities</quote>;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5EAEE92281DB4287B7C8EC02DB0C541A"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (A), by striking <quote>or</quote> at the end; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id656790CC2A0140AFBBFB2658B5E36756"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idBC405077084C4633B530D4A248FA7CB2" style="OLC"> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA0912B879F7E41ADBF5C136CC297E881"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the National Academy of Sciences, in the final report issued by the <quote>America's Energy Future: Technology Opportunities, Risks, and Tradeoffs</quote> project, and in any subsequent report by the National Academy of Sciences on sustainability, energy, or alternative fuels;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id947B6E335CD2428BBF8573ACCADB1DEC"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the National Institutes of Health, in the annual report on the rare diseases research activities of the National Institutes of Health for fiscal year 2005, and in any subsequent report by the National Institutes of Health on rare diseases research activities;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id914B920FD126413CAD617FAB126036E3"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the National Academy of Sciences, in the final report issued by the <quote>Transit Research and Development: Federal Role in the National Program</quote> project and the report entitled <quote>Transportation Research, Development and Technology Strategic Plan (2006–2010)</quote> issued by the Research and Innovative Technology Administration of the Department of Transportation, and in any subsequent report issued by the National Academy of Sciences or the Department of Transportation on transportation and infrastructure; or</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2DEBCD2821B94E74BD0B2B397FF860BD"><enum>(F)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the national nanotechnology strategic plan required under section 2(c)(4) of the 21st Century Nanotechnology Research and Development Act (15 U.S.C. 7501(c)(4)) and in any report issued by the National Science and Technology Council Committee on Technology that focuses on areas of nanotechnology identified in such plan;</text> </subparagraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8615FC154F2542B9915D924215A2C00C"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (15), by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end;</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id49C2D7A6BDBF46B08D28CB8F307ABF80"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (16), by striking the period at the end and inserting <quote>; and</quote>; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idEBC16EB6775C4D1089818E420FD42305"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id249666F79C2E43C9A6973FB49ADCB152" style="OLC"> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0F73545CD1A5463299BB8245A0E23393"><enum>(17)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">encourage applications under the STTR program (to the extent that the projects relate to the mission of the Federal agency)—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id14EE715ABC4141D6893198B1BD5D8F1F"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">from small business concerns in geographic areas underrepresented in the STTR program or located in rural areas (as defined in section 1393(a)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986);</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE242CB5EBA6E45F3B04A4CDD4B679592"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">small business concerns owned and controlled by women;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id340C6A2814204827B3CE58F16DC6D54D"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">small business concerns owned and controlled by veterans;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC0ECDDE633DA4E3BB39F7EB49D5A3EBE"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">small business concerns owned and controlled by Native Americans; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id318D01F35DE5400B8415B3DF9230703E"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">small business concerns located in a geographic area with an unemployment rates that exceed the national unemployment rate, based on the most recently available monthly publications of the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id86AAEC8987BA4B64B8A0318762FA441C"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Research and Development Focus</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 9(x) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638(x)) is amended—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idFBB9A916A972467EA288F11F476E01CC"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking paragraph (2); and</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id728C88757CC146469F4B733392CA51D0"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by redesignating paragraph (3) as paragraph (2).</text> </paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idCD0F4CCB0F314628B435A09301DB4163" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>502.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Report on SBIR and STTR program goals</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 9 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638), as amended by this Act, is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idDD0E935211084B94BBB7C6B96F95BD58" style="OLC"> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2C7225B9AD9A49C1A18219571BF433C3"><enum>(ll)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Annual report on SBIR and STTR program goals</header> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA0BC5DFEB96640A2BE726DB3744F51FE"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Development of metrics</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The head of each Federal agency required to participate in the SBIR program or the STTR program shall develop metrics to evaluate the effectiveness, and the benefit to the people of the United States, of the SBIR program and the STTR program of the Federal agency that—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idAACA1C4DE423450CB3144F1353C2AB19"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">are science-based and statistically driven;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idB65D9EE8E57E48728B1DB2479725CF0D"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">reflect the mission of the Federal agency; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0DEF3756EACC4A0DB270D559053C1768"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">include factors relating to the economic impact of the programs.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idB226A228189E489EA824705F6E9E5CC9"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Evaluation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The head of each Federal agency described in paragraph (1) shall conduct an annual evaluation using the metrics developed under paragraph (1) of—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id110E307F1FB14AB39744594043462B9B"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the SBIR program and the STTR program of the Federal agency; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id89EC7E67EAB24338858E1791B42148B0"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the benefits to the people of the United States of the SBIR program and the STTR program of the Federal agency.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4928913C31D248A8BFC5F39594CDFA97"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Report</header> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC74465467C034BFA9384F116682F481E"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The head of each Federal agency described in paragraph (1) shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress and the Administrator an annual report describing in detail the results of an evaluation conducted under paragraph (2).</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD185056D60B84A0EA8C73EF0022EF20A"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Public availability of report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The head of each Federal agency described in paragraph (1) shall make each report submitted under subparagraph (A) available to the public online.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idBA790303D5FD406AAA776204AD6D90DC"><enum>(C)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definition</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this paragraph, the term <term>appropriate committees of Congress</term> means—</text> <clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1C6ACDEDBAF74C11B40279E94DDCC135"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship of the Senate; and</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id523136E372024C9D89B1B82A69F46775"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Committee on Small Business and the Committee on Science and Technology of the House of Representatives.</text> </clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0F96A56071324F32978A0CE65818589D" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>503.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Competitive selection procedures for SBIR and STTR programs</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 9 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638), as amended by this Act, is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idAF14B773A66A4C9D9E953F10A064385A" style="OLC"> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idBF304071491D492EA998903E24368449"><enum>(mm)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Competitive selection procedures for SBIR and STTR programs</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">All funds awarded, appropriated, or otherwise made available in accordance with subsection (f) or (n) must be awarded pursuant to competitive and merit-based selection procedures.</text> </subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </section> Passed the Senate December 22, 2010. Secretary