Small Business Innovation and Economic Security Act

This bill keeps the Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs alive and adds security screening and new funding tracks. It extends the programs' authorization from September 30, 2025 to September 30, 2031, and pushes the same 2031 date across a long list of connected pilot programs and deadlines. On security, it directs agencies to evaluate whether a small business applicant presents a risk, including by coordinating with the intelligence community, and it makes a business a denial candidate if it connects to an entity on any of eight named government lists, including the UFLPA Entity List, the Non-SDN Chinese Military-Industrial Complex Companies List, the Section 889 Prohibition List, and the list of Chinese military companies under section 1260H. Denied applicants must be told of the determination and its basis where national security permits, and a denial does not bar them from a future cycle. It creates a strategic breakthrough Phase II funding track: agencies with a required SBIR expenditure above $100,000,000 may set aside up to 0.50 percent of their SBIR allocation and award up to $30,000,000 to a single small business, which must have at least one prior Phase II award and match the money at 100 percent from new private or non-SBIR government capital. It caps how many proposals a business may submit each year, with a waiver only for time-sensitive topics and only up to 5 percent of topics. It requires new acquisition workforce training on Phase III awards, simplified Phase III contracting procedures and model contracts, and new data fields tracking award types in the SBIR database and the Federal Procurement Data System. It raises the Phase I technical assistance cap to $6,500 and the Phase II cap to $50,000 per project, lets awardees choose their assistance provider, adds cybersecurity assistance and I-Corps participation, and extends the GAO study deadline in the SBIR and STTR Extension Act of 2022 from 3 years to 8 years.

At least 32 organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing. A floor, not a total: they were counted by the client name on 57 quarterly reports filed by 11 lobbying firms and by 16 organizations lobbying for themselves in 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. An organization that lobbied this measure without naming it is not counted here.

The filings record that lobbying was reported on the measure. The form has no per-bill dollar figure and no field for a position, so nothing here says how much was spent or which side an organization took.

5 of them, in no ranking: University of Oregon; Siff & Associates, PLLC (Obo the Mechanical Contractors Association of America); Autm; Boston University; Beaverfit North America, LLC. Listed as filed, in the order the filings were read, and 27 others are not shown. These are not the largest, the earliest or the most active: we keep five names per measure, and the filings give no ranking.

From the LD-2 quarterly lobbying filings published at lda.gov by the Senate Office of Public Records. Read for 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. Our copy holds 24 fewer filings for 2025 Q1, 39 fewer filings for 2025 Q2, 42 fewer filings for 2025 Q3, 33 fewer filings for 2025 Q4, 28 fewer filings for 2026 Q1, 48 fewer filings for 2026 Q2 and 218 fewer filings for 2026 Q3 than the Senate's register counts, so those quarters are the filings we could read rather than every one filed. 2026 Q4 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.