An amendment numbered 12 printed in House Report 110-707 to clarify that the NASA Outreach and Technology Assistance Program will include small, minority-owned, and women-owned businesses. It would also give preference, in selection for the program, to socially and economically disadvantaged small business concerns, small business concerns owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans, and HUBZone small business concerns.

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   Change 1: Replaces “small businesses” at the section 1108(a) with “small, minority-owned, and women-owned businesses”

   Replaces

   In H.R. 6063 · Reported in House

   (a) Establishment.--NASA shall contract with an organization that has demonstrated the ability to partner with NASA centers, aerospace contractors, and academic institutions to carry out a program to transfer the knowledge and technology of the space and aeronautics programs to small[struck: ][inserted: , minority-owned, and women-owned ]businesses in communities across the United States. The program shall support the mission of NASA's Innovative Partnerships Program to provide technical assistance through joint partnerships with industry, academia, government agencies, and national laboratories.

   Original wording

   (1) in subsection (a), strike “small businesses” and insert “small, minority-owned, and women-owned businesses”; and

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   Change 2: Inserts “, giving preference to socially and economically disadvantaged small business concerns, s…” after “to small businesses”

   InsertsSection 1108(b)(2)

   …to small businesses[inserted: , giving preference to socially and economically disadvantaged small business concerns, small business concerns owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans, and HUBZone small business concerns. This paragraph shall not apply to any contracting actions entered into or taken by the Agency]…

   Original wording

   (2) in subsection (b)(2), insert “, giving preference to socially and economically disadvantaged small business concerns, small business concerns owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans, and HUBZone small business concerns. This paragraph shall not apply to any contracting actions entered into or taken by the Agency” after “to small businesses”.

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