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HASC Draft Bill Offers Another Tool To Elevate Commercial Solutions

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, May 16th, 2024

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HASC Draft Bill Offers Another Tool To Elevate Commercial Solutions

Draft defense policy bill language released in the House this week contains a provision that would allow service secretaries to highlight a select number of small business research efforts they believe deserve greater attention within the Defense Department and Congress given their potential importance to their respective military branches. An Entrepreneurial Innovation Project designation by a service secretary would require the secretary of defense to include the spending estimates for each project in the next future years defense program, which…

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