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TITLE VIII--ACQUISITION POLICY, ACQUISITION MANAGEMENT, AND RELATED MATTERS

Subtitle E--Other Matters

P. L. 111-

House Conference Report 111-288

    Section 9(y) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638(y)) is amended in paragraph (6) by striking ``2009'' and inserting ``2010''.

   The Senate amendment contained a provision (sec. 834) that would make permanent the Small Business Innovation Research Commercialization Pilot Program and extend the authority to include projects under the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program, as requested by the Department of Defense (DOD).

   The House bill contained no similar provision.

   The House recedes with an amendment that would limit the period of reauthorization to 1 year and not authorize the expansion of the successful program to include projects under the STTR program.

   The conferees note that DOD has viewed this program as a success, and from the limited data available the conferees have seen no evidence to indicate otherwise. Further, the conferees understand that the National Research Council has indicated that ``case studies ..... support the view that small businesses, especially less experienced small businesses, value commercialization assistance programs as a forum to present their technologies and gain information on government procurement needs.'' The conferees intend to continue to review progress on this pilot program and, if appropriate, expand and reauthorize it in the future.

Senate Report 111-035 - NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2010

The committee recommends a provision that would make the Small Business Innovation Research program (SBIR) Commercialization Pilot Program permanent and expand its activities to include the Small Business Technology Transfer program. The committee notes that this program was originally established by section 252 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2006 (Public Law 109-163) and has successfully accelerated the transition of a number of SBIR technologies into programs of record and deployed systems.