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.
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Screening for potential foreign involvement is added as a covered service
The document says “is amended”Who 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.”
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.”
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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Small Business Innovation and Economic Security Act, Public Law 119-83, sec. 7, 140 Stat. 765 (2026). https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ83/html/PLAW-119publ83.htm
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“Screening for potential foreign involvement is added as a covered service,” Small Business Innovation and Economic Security Act, section 7, Sec. 7. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/small-business-innovation-economic-security-act/proposal/sec07-foreign-involvement-screening/ (retrieved October 10, 2026).
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