Joni Ernst: “Going a billion dollars over budget isn’t a rounding error—it’s a financial trainwreck at taxpayers’ expense.”

Today, we rely 100 percent on foreign sources for 12 critical minerals essential to our military and our economy.

Now governors should back it up by stopping fraud before the money goes out the door, instead of chasing it after it's gone.

The new commercialization standard rewards companies that convert research into customers and follow-on contracts that meet the mission, while limiting new seed awards to firms that have made SBIR grants their revenue model.

The Vice President's anti-fraud pledge was the right first step.