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Army wants to cover costs for small businesses to work in research labs

Federal News Radio: Small companies may get some new incentives to work with the Army and use the service’s labs for research.

Assistant Army Secretary for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Bruce Jette says he’d like to subsidize travel expenses for some businesses so they can use the equipment in the Army laboratories for their work.

“What we are trying to do is knock down some of those barriers,” Jette said Tuesday during the NDIA Army S&T Conference in Washington. “We haven’t finalized it yet, but there may be a way we can do invitational travel just like in cooperative research and development agreements. What I want to do is make sure we don’t eliminate your participation because of things like travel. It’s really for small business.”

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