Sec. 863. Small business integration working group
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The Secretary of Defense shall create a small business integration working group, to be led by the Director of the Department of Defense Office of Small Business Programs, which convenes at least four times per year to better ensure the integration of department-wide small business efforts, including by— improving the alignment between disparate small business and industrial base programs across the Department of Defense; providing oversight of small business efforts department-wide; unifying small business policy, acquisition workforce development, and transition of emerging technologies into programs of record as required under the Small Business Strategy; and reducing barriers to entry for small businesses and non-traditional vendors into the defense industrial base.
The integration working group shall be comprised of representatives from each of the following organizations: Each of the military service’s small business offices. Each of the military service’s small business innovation research and small business technology transfer programs. The office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment. The office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering. Not later than March 1, 2023, the Director of the Office of Small Business Programs shall brief the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives on the establishment and activities of the working group, policies enacted to allow for the sharing of best practices, and practices for conducting oversight.