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SDA Director Backs Raising Small Business Award Caps, Advises Small Companies to Team with Primes

SDA Director Backs Raising Small Business Award Caps, Advises Small Companies to Team with Primes
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and Space Development Agency (SDA) launched six satellites aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket to low-Earth orbit at 5:30 p.m. ET on Feb. 15 from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (MDA Photo)

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…

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