Small Business Innovation Research

• GSA wants to rescue innovations from the ‘valley of death’

  GSA launches a pilot to help companies in Phase III of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program get access to federal buyers.

  Reporter's Notebook

  August 06, 2018
• How the federal government can fund your small business

  On this episode, we talk to Robert Brooke, director of federal funding programs at the Virginia Center for Innovative Technology, about the federal government's Small Business Innovative Research program. Brooke explains how SBIR is designed to fund startups that are creating new and untested technologies, while letting the company retain commercialization rights.

  What's Working in Washington

  April 20, 2018
• Navy’s SBIR cultivating small businesses

  The Navy wants to bring more small businesses into the fold to help foster research and innovation. The Small Business Innovation Research program assists businesses by streamlining the process to develop, test and implement technologies for use by warfighters. Robert Smith, director of SBIR, discussed this on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin at the 2018 Sea Air Space Expo in National Harbor, Maryland.

  Federal Drive

  April 16, 2018
• Innovations in cybersecurity at DHS

  Megan Mahle, business operations manger for the cybersecurity division of the Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate, joins host Derrick Dortch to discuss the mission of the organization. October 21, 2016

  Fed Access

  October 20, 2016