April 23, 2008 - ALERT:

• SBIR Reauthorization Update - House Passes SBIR Reauthorization

April 22, 2008 - ALERT:

• SBIR Reauthorization Update - Amendments & Rules for Full House Vote

April 15, 2008 - ALERT:

• SBIR Reauthorization Update - House Small Biz Committee Mark Up

April 14, 2008 - ALERT:

• SBIR Reauthorization Update - House S&T Committee Mark Up

April 14, 2008 - In this issue:

• General SBIR News and Update

March 31, 2008 - ALERT:

• SBIR Reauthorization Update - Big Trouble for the Program House Small Biz Committee Bill

February 11, 2008 - In this issue:

• Timely SBIR Reauthorization Unlikely
• Q&A

October 1 2007 - In this issue:

• SBIR and CPP Reauthorization Passes in the Senate
• SBTC's SBIR in Rapid Transitions Conference
• More About House Passage of H.R. 3567, Small Business Investment Act of 1958
• Texas Extends Early National SBIR Conference Registration Discount
• Notice to State SBIR Representatives

September 27, 2007 - Update: H.R.3567 Passes in the House

September 19, 2007 - In this issue:

• Proposed Legislation (H.R.3567) to Obliterate the Small Business Size Standard
• Tibbetts Awardees Announced
• SBTC’s SBIR in Rapid Transitions 2007.2 Conference to Follow the Tibbetts
• Long Awaited NRC Study: Capitalizing on Science, Technology, and Innovation
• Legislation Introduced to Increase SBIR and STTR Funding
• SBIR Program Attracts Attention Abroad

June 1, 2007 - In this issue:

• Passage of Emergency Supplemental Should Restore Full DoD SBIR Funding
• SBIR Reauthorization: Plain Speak on why it may fail
• 2007 Tibbetts Awards Deadlines
• Change in Leadership at DoD Small Business Headquarters
• A Novel SBIR Program Experiment by NIST
• The First Non-NSF Sponsored National SBIR Conference
• The 2007 Navy Opportunity Forum
• High Power Connecticut SBIR Conference
• Beyond SBIR Phase II Conference & Exhibition 2007
• New SBIR Awardee Database Search Site

April 16, 2007 - In this issue:

• When Will the DoD Money Run Out? How This Could Impact Your SBIR Award
• NIST ATP Releases $60m Solicitation - Announces Proposers' Conferences Schedule
• National SBIR Spring Conference at Research Triangle Park, NC. April 30 - May 3, 2007
• Proposed Increase in SBIR Discretionary Technical Assistance
• SBIR -STEM Workforce Development Grant Pilot Program
• Schaper Joins DHS SBIR Program
• Army SBIR's LTC Kenneth Strayer to Move On
• Former DHS Program Manager, Tim Sharp Joins the Private Sector

March 26, 2007 - In this issue:

• DoD May Temporarily Freeze/Suspend their SBIR/STTR Program
• Kerry & Snowe Work to Increase SBA Budget by $97 Million
• ATP to Rise Again.. Maybe..
• NRC's Dr. Charles Wessner Enlightens SBIR Audience
• Powerhouse SBIR Attorney Dave Metzger Moves
• Air Force to Hold Commercialization Pilot Program (CPP) Review Meeting
• Registration Open for the National SBIR Spring Conference at Research Triangle Park, NC.

February 21, 2007 - In this issue:

• Costs of War, Tight Budget and a New Congress are Making SBIR Reauthorization a Tough Challenge
• Proposal to Set Aside 3% of SBIR Funding ($60 million) for Agency Administrative and Other Purposes
• Will a New York Liberal be the One to Rescue SBIR from a Soviet-Style Fate?
• Compromise No More
• If You Pass it, They Will Come
• SBA Gets Reauthorization Extension
• DOT Opens FY-07 SBIR - Important Changes in Submission Procedures
• NIH Seeks Comments about a National Survey on SBIR
• SBIR in Rapid Transitions, a Conference on DoD's Commercialization Pilot Program (CPP)
• Registration Open for the National SBIR Spring Conference at Research Triangle Park, NC.
• Tibbetts Awards for 2007

December 31, 2006 - In this issue:

• Are SBIR Topics Wired/Rigged?
• Congress and Your Future
• Jere W. Glover named SBIR Gateway's SBIR Person of the Year for 2006
• Predictions for 2007

December 11, 2006 - In this issue:

• Outlook for SBIR Issues in the 110th Congress
• Update on SBA Administrator, Steven Preston
• Confirmation Hearing on New SBA Deputy Administrator
• Changes at DoD SBIR Headquarters
• SBIR Data Rights in Jeopardy as Night Vision Corp. Loses SBIR Phase III Appeal
• What Happened to NIST's FY-2007 SBIR Phase I Program?
• Celadon Laboratories Wins NIH SBIR Protest, or do They?
• Thanks to the NSF for the Many Years of National SBIR Conference Support
• SBIR Year in Review and Person of the Year

September 15, 2006 - In this issue:

• Department of Homeland Security FY-06.2 SBIR/STTR Released
• The DoD Commercialization Pilot Program (CPP)
• SBIR Reauthorization and Augmentation
• Senator Kerry and SBIR Reauthorization

July 28, 2006 - In this issue:

• SBE Committee Mark up Suggests Interesting and Important Changes to SBIR/STTR
• Name and Address Information in CCR to be validated with Dun & Bradstreet (D&B)
• HSARPA Homeland Security Update
• Rear Admiral Jay Cohen Nominated to become Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Science and Technology

July 26, 2006 - Alert:

• SBIR Eligibility Issue to be included in SBA Reauthorization Bill Programs

June 26, 2006 - In this issue:

• Senate Small Business Committee to hold Hearing on Contracting and Innovation Research Programs
• SBA to get New Administrator: Welcome Steven Preston, Good Bye Hector Barreto
• Farewell Administrator Barreto
• NIH Issues Additional Comments on GAO Report - Expanded VC Eligibility is Sought After
• DHS's HSARPA SBIR Program Manager Announces Retirement
• Tibbetts Award Nominations Close July 15, 2006

April 3, 2006 - In this issue:

• SBA and Small Business Programs in Peril?
• National Academies Symposium on Innovation Awards and Entrepreneurship
• Senate SBE Hearing - More Woes for SBA's Barreto
• Note to SBA: Help is on the Way... Maybe...
• The Return of the Tibbetts Awards Program

February 16, 2006 - In this issue:

• Bill Introduced to Raise SBIR Awards
• Changes at DHS's HSARPA
• Inc. Magazine's Best Friends In DC: On the Hill
• The President's 2007 Budget and SBA
• Change in HSARPA's RTAP Schedule