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participate in the SBIR program because their extramural Research 

 and R&D budget is over $100 million per year. I am pleased that 

 the SBIR program managers and management representing these 

 eleven agencies are here today: 



DOD Bob v;renn 



HHS-NIH Verl Zanders and Sonny Kreicraan 



NASA Dr. Robert Norwood and Mike Battaglia 



DOE Dr. Sam Barish 



NSF John Meyer and Roland Tibbetts 



DOAg Dr. Mark R. Bailey 



EPA Donald Carey 



DOT Dr. George Kovatch 



DOEd John Christensen 



DOC Dr. Joseph Bishop 



NRC Marianne Riggs 



I'd like to compliment them on the high quality of their 

 management of the program, often v/ith limited resources. They 

 clearly are communicating their program well to industry as 

 evidenced by the high ratios of proposals to awards. 



The quality of the research funded under the SBIR program has 

 consistently met the high standards of the funding agencies as 

 reported by GAO . ^ As stated in its March 1995 report, GAO found 



^ Federal Research: Assessment of Small Business Innovation 

 Research Programs (GAO/RCED-89-39 , Jan. 23, 1989), Federal 

 Research: Small Business Innovation Research Shows Success but 

 Can Be Strengthened (GAO/RCED-92-37 , Mar. 30, 1992), and Federal 



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