Advocacy for use and transition to Phase III is added to the policy directives
What the document says“advocate for the maximum practicable use and transition of products, services, and technologies developed under SBIR or STTR programs to Phase III by means of Phase III awards to small business concerns”
Subsection (a)(1) amends section 9(j)(4) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638(j)(4)) by inserting these words before the period at the end. The added duty is to advocate for the maximum practicable use and transition to Phase III of the products, services and technologies developed under the SBIR or STTR programs, by means of Phase III awards to small business concerns. This Act does not restate the rest of the sentence the words join, and section 9(j)(4) is not indexed here.
What the document actually says“advocate for the maximum practicable use and transition of products, services, and technologies developed under SBIR or STTR programs to Phase III by means of Phase III awards to small business concerns”
Someone must push for the last stage to be used as much as it can be. That means the agency buying what the firm built.
Phase III is when the government buys the finished work. Many projects stop before it. This adds a job of pushing them through.
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