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Screening for potential foreign involvement is added as a covered service

To extend the SBIR and STTR programs, and for other purposes, section 7, Sec. 7. Written by .

Screening for potential foreign involvement is added as a covered service

The document says “is amendedWho acts: Federal agencies running SBIR or STTR programsHow: statuteSec. 7 in the PDF
What the document says

“screening for potential foreign involvement in technology development or commercialization activities.”

To extend the SBIR and STTR programs, and for other purposes, Sec. 7

Subsection (1)(A)(iv) adds a new subparagraph (E) to subsection (q)(1). The added item is screening for potential foreign involvement in technology development or commercialization activities. It sits alongside the other services the subsection covers.

What the document actually says

“screening for potential foreign involvement in technology development or commercialization activities.”

To extend the SBIR and STTR programs, and for other purposes, Sec. 7
That sentence, in plain words

The help can now include a check for ties abroad. The check looks at the work and at plans to sell it.

What this is about

This lines up with the security checks earlier in the law. Here it is help for the firm, not a test it must pass.

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