The Pentagon hasn't used a waiver helping small businesses obtain Small Business Innovation Research grants in the eight years it has existed. But new legislation may change that.

In the past three years, very little SBIR funding went to startups.

The agency's Science and Technology Directorate is on the hunt for new technologies to address 11 core issues it is targeting in 2019.

For the past year the team has been building two internal tech products — Assembly and Hunting Party.

Nineteen companies located across 10 different states make up the latest Phase I group.

The National Institute of Standard and Technology Small Business Innovation Research program opened their annual applications for research grants Tuesday available for companies for companies developing tech projects on topics like manufacturing or cryptography.