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Commerce Small Business Innovation Research Program

The program provides competitive grants and contracts to small businesses to conduct Federally funded research. Agencies with R&D budgets of $100 million or more must reserve a set percentage of that funding for this program.

Rating

What This Rating Means

NOT PERFORMING
Results Not Demonstrated

A rating of Results Not Demonstrated (RND) indicates that a program has not been able to develop acceptable performance goals or collect data to determine whether it is performing.
  • The program does not have adequate outcome-oriented performance measures. Without established performance measures, it is not evident that the program is achieving results.
  • The program is generally well-managed. Contracts are awarded through a competitive process and awardees are monitored for progress and compliance with contract conditions.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • NIST SBIR - Working with the Small Business Administration to develop long-term outcome-oriented measures.

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