Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman, head of the U.S. Small Business Administration and voice for America’s 33 million small businesses in President Biden’s Cabinet, released the following statement today after the House voted to reauthorize funding for the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. Reauthorizing the programs enables SBA and our partner federal agencies to advance domestic commercialization of innovative technologies developed through the SBIR/STTR programs. The reauthorization extends the program and critical pilot initiatives, strengthens research security due diligence efforts, expands open topics solicitations, and increases company performance standards.
Read MoreEnterprise Parts Management System (EPMS) /
The Department of Defense (DoD) is seeking a prototype that establishes the capability to manage electronic parts across the enterprise. The purpose of this prototype is to grant visibility into the supply chain, enable better supply chain risk management, allow aggregation of demand, improve purchasing power, enable collaborative solutions to obsolescence and other parts related issues, reduce the risk of counterfeit parts, and enable more DoD wide design modernization. EPMS will enable better microelectronics-focused parts selection and management throughout the entire life cycle of an acquisition program. By aggregating part data at the Service and DoD level, the EPMS will provide unprecedented insight into supply chains enterprise wide. Such insight will lead to improvements in traditional and cyber supply chain risk management, hardware assurance, collaborative solutions to obsolescence and other parts related issues, counterfeit prevention, and DoD wide design modernization. In addition, the demand consolidation made possible by EPMS will increase DoD’s purchasing power through economies of scale.
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