{
  "id": "ACQ-20",
  "category": "Small-business support",
  "capability": "Pay for commercialization, IP, cybersecurity and business assistance",
  "summary": "Authorize SBIR/STTR recipients to purchase assistance or use staff/training to improve commercialization and screen foreign involvement; qualifyingI-Corps participation can be supported.",
  "legal_basis": [
    {
      "citation": "15 U.S.C. §638(q), (bbb)",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section638&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Primary statutory text; primary GovInfo baseline and amendment audit identified in research narrative."
    },
    {
      "citation": "P.L. 119-83, §7",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ83/html/PLAW-119publ83.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Enacted public law, not a pending bill."
    }
  ],
  "authority_holder": "Participating agency; eligible SBIR/STTR award recipient selects support",
  "actor_chain": {
    "planner": [
      "DoD/component SBIR-STTR program office and technical topic owner"
    ],
    "resource_owner": [
      "Component extramural R&D budget owner"
    ],
    "approver": [
      "Authorized component grants/contracting official; required research-security reviewers"
    ],
    "executor": [
      "Service or Defense Agency SBIR-STTR office and award officer"
    ],
    "partners": [
      "SBA program-wide policy",
      "Eligible small business; acquisition customer; research-security and counterintelligence partners"
    ]
  },
  "actor_sources": [
    {
      "title": "SBA participating agencies — DoD component SBIR/STTR offices",
      "url": "https://www.sbir.gov/participating-agencies"
    }
  ],
  "requirements": [
    "Current SBIR/STTR award and assistance linked to eligible project/commercialization purposes."
  ],
  "limits": [
    "Phase I assistance up to $6,500/project; Phase II up to $50,000/project.",
    "Recipient selection/staff-use option does not make program a general consultancy grant for non-awardees."
  ],
  "funding": [
    "May be included in or added to award as agency determines; applicable statutory funding sources and reviews."
  ],
  "coordination_path": "Awardee identifies commercial/IP/cyber need → component program and award officer authorize funds → chosen provider or staff/training execution.",
  "availability": "Express statutory pathway; award-specific appropriations, available balances, delegations, implementation and approvals not independently verified.",
  "confidence": "High on express authority and cited conditions; execution assignment is illustrative unless statute expressly names it.",
  "currentness": "P.L. 119-83 §7 enacted 2026-04-13 read in full; modifies 15 U.S.C. §638(q) and adds(bbb).",
  "family": "Research, innovation and experimentation",
  "mechanisms": [
    "Other statutory tools"
  ],
  "goal_ids": [
    "develop-technology"
  ],
  "office_links": [
    {
      "office_id": "defense-agencies",
      "role": "executor",
      "label": "Service or Defense Agency SBIR-STTR office and award officer"
    }
  ]
}