
Space Development Agency Director (SDA) Derek Tournear on Feb. 23 suggested that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce lobby Congress to raise the $2 million small business innovation research (SBIR) award topline and the $100 million ceiling on available SDA SBIR funding. "I think that the limits for SBIR/STTR [small business technology transfer] funding are artificial and I really don't see how that is a good benefit," he said in a discussion with Sita Sonty, the CEO of Space Tango, at…