Stacy Chin discusses how a surge in SBIR applications is overwhelming federal agencies. More proposals mean longer review times, exhausted reviewers, and harder decisions about which projects deserve funding. Agencies are scrambling to find resources to handle the load.
However, this influx also places a significant burden on these federal agencies and reviewers who must sift through these at a much larger volume. And this increased workload can lead to longer review times and the potential for reviewer fatigue, especially when trying to identify the most promising SBIR applications. And in return, this may place more pressure and strain on these federal agencies to dedicate more resources to make sure they can keep up with this pace.
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