Sec. 513. Pilot program for designation of certain SBIR and STTR projects as Entrepreneurial Innovation Projects
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The Director of National Intelligence shall carry out a pilot program to more effectively transition eligible projects that present the potential to meet the operational needs of covered elements of the intelligence community to Phase III through the designation of eligible projects as Entrepreneurial Innovation Projects. Under the pilot program under subsection (a), each head of a covered element of the intelligence community, in consultation with the Director of National Intelligence, shall designate not fewer than 5 eligible projects per year as Entrepreneurial Innovation Projects.
The head of a covered element of the intelligence community may designate an eligible project as an Entrepreneurial Innovation Project under paragraph
(1)if the head determines the eligible project meets the following criteria: The eligible project demonstrates the potential to— advance the national security capabilities of the United States; provide new technologies or processes, or new applications of existing technologies, that will enable new alternatives to existing programs, systems, and initiatives of the intelligence community; provide future cost savings; or significantly reduce the time to deliver capabilities to the intelligence community. Any other criteria that the head determines appropriate. Each head of a covered element of the intelligence community, in consultation with the Director of National Intelligence, shall establish procedures designed to mitigate, to the greatest extent practicable, organizational conflicts of interest relating to the designation of projects under paragraph (1), including conflicts of interest from within a department or agency of the United States Government for which the designation and successful completion of an Entrepreneurial Innovation Project may represent a competing alternative to an existing or proposed program or other activity of such department or agency. An eligible project seeking a designation under paragraph
(1)shall submit to the head of the covered element of the intelligence community from which such designation is sought an application containing— an explanation as to how the eligible project meets the criteria specified in paragraph (2); and such other information as the head, in consultation with the Director of National Intelligence, considers appropriate. If the head of a covered element of the intelligence community that previously designated a project under paragraph
(1)determines such project no longer meets the required criteria specified in paragraph (2), or that the technology that is the subject of such project has become irrelevant, such head may revoke the Entrepreneurial Innovation Project designation for such project. The Director of National Intelligence shall include in the relevant multiyear national intelligence program plan submitted to Congress under section 1403 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 ( 50 U.S.C. 3301 ) the estimated expenditures of each designated project. The designating head shall ensure that each designated project is included under a separate heading in the relevant multiyear national intelligence program plan submitted to Congress under such section 1403 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 ( 50 U.S.C. 3301 ). Each designated project shall be taken into consideration by the designating head in the programming and budgeting phases of the intelligence planning, programming, budgeting, and evaluation process. On an annual basis for each fiscal year during which the pilot program under subsection
(a)is carried out, concurrently with the submission of the budget of the President for that fiscal year under section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, the Director of National Intelligence shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report that includes the following: A description of each designated project. A summary of the potential of each designated project, as specified in subsection (b)(2)(A). For each designated project, a description of the progress made toward delivering on such potential. A description of the progress made toward inclusion of the designated project in the future-years intelligence program. Such other information on the status of such pilot program as the Director considers appropriate. In the final report submitted under paragraph
(1)prior to the date of termination under subsection (e), the Director of National Intelligence shall include a recommendation on whether to extend the pilot program under subsection
(a)and the appropriate duration of such extension, if any. The authority to carry out the pilot program under subsection
(a)shall terminate on December 31, 2027. In this section: The term appropriate congressional committees means— the congressional intelligence committees; the Committee on Small Business of the House of Representatives; and the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship of the Senate. The term covered element of the intelligence community means the following: The Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The Central Intelligence Agency. The National Security Agency. The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. The National Reconnaissance Office. The term designated project means a project that has been designated as an Entrepreneurial Innovation Project under the pilot program under subsection
(a)and for which such designation has not been revoked under subsection (b)(5). The term designating head means, with respect to the designation of a project as an Entrepreneurial Innovation Project under the pilot program under subsection (a), the head of the covered element of the intelligence community making such designation. The term eligible project means a project for which a small business concern has completed a Phase II SBIR or STTR award. The terms Phase II , Phase III , SBIR , and STTR have the meanings given such terms in section 9(e) of the Small Business Act ( 15 U.S.C. 638(e) ). The term small business concern has the meaning given such term under section 3 of the Small Business Act ( 15 U.S.C. 632 ).
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Sec. 513
Pilot program for designation of certain SBIR and STTR projects as Entrepreneurial Innovation Projects
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