News. Key lawmakers remain at odds over proposed restrictions in a new GOP plan to reauthorize a pair of small business programs critical to the Pentagon’s innovation ecosystem.
The two initiatives have been lapsed for months amid a stalemate that only in recent weeks began to show signs of thawing as leading senators swapped renewal pitches.
There’s a risk that progress could again stall out. Democrats have taken issue with language from Senate Small Business Committee Chair Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) that detractors argue would limit companies’ ability to participate in the Small Business Innovation Research program, or SBIR.
