When I was at Navy they did pretty much all our contracting and we went to a central single source of contracting.

Do you think that lowering taxes benefits small businesses like those in the SBA or raising taxes would be good for small business?

the SBA was by far the worst at distributing business savings funds for the last 2 years

This will reduce tax benefits for companies investing in R&D and will result in less domestic innovation, fewer jobs.

I think so. Yes.

So anything we can do to help on the commercialization side is obviously important.

So I will give you an example. Progeny Systems had I think over 300 awards over a 20-something year period.

The total funding for the SBIR programs has increased as we have noted, as has the responsibilities for SBA.

Sure. So, increasing geographic and demographic diversity is a priority of mine.

Profits are good. Profits mean jobs.

Unfortunately, we have seen the Biden Administration implement many new, time-consuming regulations that are forcing businesses... away from productive activities.