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September 19, 2013 By AMK

Departments underspent on small business R&D commercialization

Several departments underspent on small business programs for the  commercialization of research and development because they left out entire  component agencies from the calculations used to fund the programs, the Government Accountability Office says.

Under two federal programs, agencies must spend a certain percentage of their  outside research and development funding on small businesses R&D efforts  that align with federal priorities.

But the Transportation Department, for instance, excluded the Federal  Aviation Administration from its departmentwide calculation of outside R&D  spending, GAO says in a report released Sept. 9.  The Health and Human Services Department did the same with both the Centers  for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration.

Keep reading this article at: http://www.fiercegovernment.com/story/departments-underspent-rd-commercialization/2013-09-10

 

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: CDC, DOT, FDA, GAO, HHS, innovation, R&D, research, SBIR, STTR, technology, technology transfer

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