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INFORMATION
Calendar No. 349
115TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session JSENATE 1 115-450
SBIR AND STTR OVERSIGHT AND PILOT PROGRAM
EXTENSION ACT OF 2017
DECEMBER 20, 2018.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. RISCH, from the Committee on Small Business and
Entrepreueurship, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 1061]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, to
which was referred the bill (S. 1961) to amend the Small Business
Act to temporarily reauthorize certain pilot programs under the
Small Business Innovation Research Program and the Small Busi-
ness Technology Transfer Program, and for other purposes, having
considered the same, reports favorably thereon with an amendment
in the nature of a substitute and recommends that the bill, as
amended, do pass.
I. INTRODUCTION
The SBIR and STTR Oversight and Pilot Program Extension Act
of 2017 (S. 1961) was introduced by Senator James E. Risch, the
Committee's Chairman, for himself, and Senator Jeanne Shaheen
on October 16, 2017.
This bill, as introduced would have extended, through September
30, 2018, four pilot programs that were enacted as part of the
Small Business Innovation Research/Small Business Technology
Transfer (SBIR/STTR) Reauthorization Act of 2011. These pro-
grams include the Phase Flexibility Pilot Program, the Phase 0
Proof of Concept Partnership Pilot Program, Commercialization
Readiness Pilot Program for Civilian Agencies Pilot Program, and
the SBIR/STTR Administrative Funding Pilot Program.
For the markup of the bill, the Chairman filed a substitute
amendment that extends the reauthorization of the pilot programs
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