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Small Business Innovation Research: Most Agencies Did Not Implement Required Commercialization Pilot

GAO-24-107155
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Small Business Administration If the CAPP program is reauthorized, the Administrator of SBA should direct the SBIR Program Office to collect and report information from SBIR participating agencies on CAPP—such as implementation status, number of awards, and dollars awarded (Recommendation 1).
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Cloud Computing: Agencies Need to Address Key OMB Procurement Requirements

GAO-24-106137
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Small Business Administration The Administrator of SBA should ensure that the CIO of SBA develops guidance to put a cloud SLA in place with every vendor when a cloud solution is deployed. The guidance should include language that addresses OMB's four required elements for SLAs, including: continuous awareness of the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of its assets; a detailed description of roles and responsibilities; clear performance metrics; and remediation plans for non-compliance. (Recommendation 43)
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Small Business Administration The Administrator of SBA should ensure that the CIO of SBA develops guidance that requires a periodic review of the agency's policies related to cloud services, including any technical guidance and business requirements, to determine if improvements should be made. (Recommendation 42)
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Small Business Research Programs: Opportunities Exist for SBA and Agencies to Reduce Vulnerabilities to Fraud, Waste, and Abuse

GAO-24-105470
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Small Business Administration The Administrator of SBA should ensure that the Associate Administrator for the Office of Investment and Innovation leverages its existing oversight mechanisms to ensure the accuracy of agencies' survey responses to required fraud, waste, and abuse training and, to the full extent of the SBA's legal authority, shares SBIR/STTR fraud risk information and resources for conducting fraud risk assessments. (Recommendation 5)
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Small Business Administration The Administrator of SBA should ensure that the Associate Administrator for the Office of Investment and Innovation expands the methods and sources used to identify fraud-related convictions and findings of civil liability to list in the SBA's database, such as through alerts from legal research resources. (Recommendation 1)
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Small Business Administration The Administrator of SBA should ensure that the Associate Administrator for the Office of Investment and Innovation validates existing information in the SBIR/STTR databases, specifically the Company Registry and SBIR.gov, to identify and correct deficiencies, as appropriate. (Recommendation 8)
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Small Business Administration The Administrator of SBA should ensure that the Associate Administrator for the Office of Investment and Innovation, to the full extent of the SBA's legal authority, provides guidance to participating agencies to conduct comprehensive SBIR/STTR program fraud risk assessments, including all key elements, in support of the Policy Directive's fraud, waste, and abuse prevention requirements and consistent with Fraud Risk Framework leading practices. (Recommendation 6)
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Small Business Administration The Administrator of SBA should ensure that the Associate Administrator for the Office of Investment and Innovation leverages its oversight mechanisms to identify, share, and report fraud-related convictions and findings of civil liability to SBIR.gov and address participating agencies' challenges in understanding and meeting the 15-day reporting requirement. (Recommendation 2)
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Small Business Administration The Administrator of SBA should ensure that the Associate Administrator for the Office of Investment and Innovation improves SBIR.gov data quality by updating guidance to require that abstracts are sufficiently complete and that applicant and awardee addresses are verified to support program eligibility determinations. (Recommendation 7)
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