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Defense Small Business Innovation Research/Technology Transfer

This program uses funding set aside specifically for small businesses to investigate the potential for new technologies to help meet the Department's mission and funds the early stage of development of such technologies by small businesses.

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.
  • Provides funds to small businesses, but has poor controls on unproductive spending.
  • Continues to provide funding to companies with track records of poor performance.
  • Overestimates commercial successes resulting from Federal support by counting additional investment on par with product sales as measures of success. Product sales are the ultimate measure of success in the marketplace.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

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

  • Tightening eligibility requirements for accepting proposals from companies and individuals that repeatedly fail to sell resulting products in the marketplace.
  • Changing the way companies' past performance is assessed to ensure that it more closely matches the intent of the law (Section 638 of Title 15, USC) that the program support product commercialization.
  • Seeking to get highly successful awardees to enter the mainstream of Defense contracting.

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