Lawmakers are looking to move forward with a standalone, three-year extension for a key, decades-old program that administers small business grants across nearly a dozen federal agencies, including the Defense Department, according to a bill draft and summary. Those documents, obtained by Inside Defense today , seek to avoid a lapse in the Small Business Innovation Research and complementary Small Business Technology Transfer programs that top military officials had begun guarding themselves against ahead of the Sept. 30 expiration...