NSBA’s Small Business Technology Council (SBTC) met alongside Washington Presentation 2024.
The Small Business Technology Council held its annual membership meeting and awards presentation on September 19, in conjunction with the National Small Business Association’s Washington Presentation.
The meeting, held in a breakaway room after the NSBA’s Congressional Breakfast, was well attended by SBTC members and interested non-members.
SBTC Executive Director Jere Glover and Co-Chair Bob Schmidt led the discussion, which touched on a number of issues relevant to high-tech R&D focused small businesses.
Some of the topics covered were SBIR reauthorization, Sec. 174 R&D Tax Deduction legislation, issues arising from the new Foreign Risk Management requirements, IP and patent legislation, and the Biden Administration’s proposed new regulations on March-In rights.
After the focused discussion, the floor was open to general Q&A and Jere and Bob answered questions from the attendees.
Click the links below to download the handouts we distributed during the meeting:
We also used the opportunity to honor our 2024 Champion of Small Business Technology Commercialization Winners. We had 9 winners this year, 3 of whom were able to attend the awards presentation on the 19th and receive their awards in person.
In addition, we also honored recently retired Navy SBIR Director Bob Smith with a Lifetime Achievement Award, for his decade-long service running the SBIR and STTR programs.
Under his tenure, the Navy SBIR program was a model organization that generated $2 in government follow-on investment for every $1 spent on SBIR awards.
Click on the link below to download the list of all 2024 SBTC Champion of Small Business Commercialization Awards:
Awards Presentation Photos:
Landon Bailey – Wargame Program Manager, Air Force
Christina Brantley – AMTC Program Manager, Army
Matt Dosberg – Digital Transformation Lead of Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA
Bob Smith, Navy SBIR Director (Retired)
Read more from SBTC at: SBTC.org
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