Welcome to fiscal year 2013! Of course in SBIR FY-13 is not handled in a uniform manner, so it's not easy to tell where a particular agency is at any given time. It is also not easy to know when each agency will implement particular provisions of the new SBIR law and policy directives.
The battle for SBIR reauthorization may have been won, but it is very questionable as to what you have actually won. There is not an "individual" "Darth Vader" at work, but small businesses are once again a victim of circumstance due to a combination of congressional disrespect (from a few but powerful forces), irresponsible knee-jerk reactions to the misdeeds of a few small businesses (let's call them what they are, "crooks"), subordination of small business interests to the "K" street lobbyists (let's call them what they are, the bosses of many of our most powerful congressional leaders).
Consequently SBIR has congealed into a blob of complexity that few understand, let alone agree upon, and it's affecting everyone including SBA, the agencies, small businesses, universities, primes, and the support networks.
To read the original article: SBIR Insider 10-01-2012 Issue
