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Special Operations

SOCOM Wants To See Pilot Program For More Agile SBIR Process Scaled Across DoD

By Matthew Beinart

Tuesday, May 18th, 2021

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SOCOM Wants To See Pilot Program For More Agile SBIR Process Scaled Across DoD

Jim Smith, USSOCOM's acquisition executive

U.S. Special Operations Command’s (SOCOM) top acquisition official said Monday he would like to see a pilot program that doubled interest in the command’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) opportunities scaled across the department. Jim Smith, SOCOM’s acquisition executive, told reporters the program has led to reducing the timeline for delivering SBIR-related prototypes by over 60 percent and was in response to hearing from several vendors that the pace of getting involved in such innovation projects was too slow. “We…

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