With two weeks remaining until the Small Business Innovation Research effort is set to expire, congressional negotiations surrounding a potential standalone reauthorization plan -- characterized by a keen interest in front-end changes to the decades-old program -- are getting down to the wire. Led by the so-called “six corners” consisting of the House and Senate small business panels and the House science committee, discussions have dragged on for weeks, though they’ve picked up in earnest as the number of session...
