[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 32, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 32CFR37.575]

[Page 214]
 
                       TITLE 32--NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
              CHAPTER I--OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
 
PART 37_TECHNOLOGY INVESTMENT AGREEMENTS--Table of Contents
 
                 Subpart E_Pre-Award Business Evaluation
 
Sec.  37.575  What are my responsibilities for determining milestone payment amounts?

    (a) If you select the milestone payment method (see Sec.  37.805), 
you must assess the reasonableness of the estimated amount for reaching 
each milestone. This assessment enables you to set the amount of each 
milestone payment to approximate the Federal share of the anticipated 
resource needs for carrying out that phase of the research effort.
    (b) The Federal share at each milestone need not be the same as the 
Federal share of the total project. For example, you might deliberately 
set payment amounts with a larger Federal share for early milestones if 
a project involves a start-up company with limited resources.
    (c) For an expenditure-based TIA, if you have minimum percentages 
that you want the recipient's cost sharing to be at the milestones, you 
should indicate those percentages in the agreement or in separate 
instructions to the post-award administrative agreements officer. That 
will help the administrative agreements officer decide when a project's 
expenditures have fallen too far below the original projections, 
requiring adjustments of future milestone payment amounts (see Sec.  
37.1105(c)).
    (d) For fixed-support TIAs, the milestone payments should be 
associated with the well-defined, observable and verifiable technical 
outcomes (e.g., demonstrations, tests, or data analysis) that you 
establish for the project in accordance with Sec. Sec.  37.305(a) and 
37.560(a).