(Editor’s Note. Though budget cuts have required considerable adjustments for quite some time, recent projections for significant increases in research and development spending over the next several years will make contracting tools oriented to R&D much more important. One of the most significant contracting vehicles is the Small Business Innovation Research Program and a recent article in the December 16 issue of the Government Contractor by Thomas Chilcott of the law firm of Odin, Feldman & Pittlemean, P.C. presents the basics of the program.) The Government has a major interest in fostering technological innovation both for its own interests of national defense and efficient government operations as well as the economic benefits to the nation. One of the primary ways its assists in technological advances is through the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program.

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