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Navy Pushing Small Business Awards For Pandemic

Tuesday, May 5th, 2020

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Navy Pushing Small Business Awards For Pandemic

Seal of the Office of Naval Research's Small Business Innovation Research/Small Business Technology Transfer programs. (Image: U.S. Navy)

The Navy’s top acquisition official on Monday spoke about how the service is trying to help small businesses weather the issues caused by the COVID-19 pandemic by pushing out more awards directly and indirectly. The office of Naval Research Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) programs are “taking a 90-day surge challenge for us. They’re intent is to award $250 million in SBIR contracts in the next 90 days, doubling up their awards they planned to do in the next 60…

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