{"id":2568,"date":"2010-12-27T10:34:53","date_gmt":"2010-12-27T15:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=2568"},"modified":"2010-12-27T15:40:17","modified_gmt":"2010-12-27T20:40:17","slug":"small-business-research-grants-reauthorized-in-dadt-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/?p=2568","title":{"rendered":"Small Business Research Grants Reauthorized in DADT Bill [Updated]"},"content":{"rendered":"
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UPDATE, 27 DECEMBER: My reading of the legislation and commentary was in error. It turns out the language to repeal Don’t Ask Don’t Tell replaced<\/em> the SBIR\/STTR authorization text in the bill, not added<\/em> to the original text, as I first reported. SBIR and STTR are still on a temporary authorization through the end of January 2011.<\/p>\n

Robb Mandelbaum<\/a> of the New York Times is moderately optimistic about a permanent reauthorization. Jeff Mervis<\/a> at Science<\/em> magazine, however, is more downbeat about its prospects.<\/p>\n

My apologies for the error earlier today.<\/p>\n

ORIGINAL POST:<\/p>\n

The bill to repeal<\/a> the Department of Defense’s Don’t Ask Don’t Tell (DADT) policy on gays serving in the military included a reauthorization of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technical Transfer (STTR) programs. President Obama signed the bill into law on 22 December.<\/p>\n

The SBIR and STTR<\/a> programs require federal agencies giving R&D grants to set aside a portion of their project portfolios for small businesses. SBIR grants go to small R&D businesses, while STTR grants are given to joint ventures between academic and small-business researchers.<\/p>\n

As described by the New York Times<\/a>, the need for speed made the SBIR\/STTR reauthorizaton bill a vehicle for the DADT repeal. The House of Representatives and Senate had each passed a version of the bill in 2009 — the original name of the bill was the “SBIR\/STTR Reauthorization Act of 2009” — but House\/Senate negotiations bogged down and the conference committee never reported out compromise bill that satisfied both sides. The bill didn’t die; it just sat there.<\/p>\n

When DADT repeal became a high legislative priority at the end of the lame-duck session last week, lawmakers in the House needed an existing dormant bill that already passed the House to which it could attach the DADT language, and the SBIR\/STTR reauthorization served that purpose. Without an existing bill, the House would have had to start over the entire legislative process — with hearings and debate — that the short time did not allow.<\/p>\n

The added language to the bill, renamed the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal Act of 2010,” passed the House by a 250-175 vote on 15 December and the Senate by a 65-31 margin on 18 December.<\/p>\n

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UPDATE, 27 DECEMBER: My reading of the legislation and commentary was in error. It turns out the language to repeal Don’t Ask Don’t Tell replaced the SBIR\/STTR authorization text in the bill, not added to the original text, as I first reported. SBIR and STTR are still on a temporary authorization through the end of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[88,74,38],"class_list":["post-2568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","tag-dod","tag-entrepreneurs","tag-grant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2568"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2581,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568\/revisions\/2581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}