Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program and Small Business Technology (STTR) Program

The summary for the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program and Small Business Technology (STTR) Program grant is detailed below. This summary states who is eligible for the grant, how much grant money will be awarded, current and past deadlines, Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) numbers, and a sampling of similar government grants. Verify the accuracy of the data FederalGrants.com provides by visiting the webpage noted in the Link to Full Announcement section or by contacting the appropriate person listed as the Grant Announcement Contact. If any section is incomplete, please visit the website for the Headquarters, which is the U.S. government agency offering this grant.

Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program and Small Business Technology (STTR) Program: The Department of Energy invites small businesses (500 employees or less) to submit grant applications in response to the FY 2004 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program Solicitation. The combined solicitation will be issued on October 7, 2003, and will be available on the World Wide Web at http://www.science.doe.gov/sbir. Those without Web access should either write to the SBIR/STTR Program, SC-32/Germantown Building, U.S. Department of Energy, 1000 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20585-1290, telephone (301) 903-1414, or e-mail [email protected]. For both SBIR and STTR, grant applications will be sought in a variety of technical areas including the following: 1) Fusion Science and Technology, 2) Advanced Technologies and Materials for Fusion Energy Systems, 3) Inertial Fusion Energy, 4) High Energy Physics Data Acquisition and Processing, 5) High Energy Physics Detectors, 6) High-Field Superconductor and Superconducting Magnet Technologies for High Energy Particle Colliders, 7) Advanced Concepts and Technology for High Energy Accelerators, 8) Radio Frequency Accelerator Technology for High Energy Accelerators and Colliders, 9) Technologies for the Next-Generation Electron-Positron Linear Collider, 10) High Performance Networks, 11) Scalable Middleware and Grid Technologies, 12) Nuclear Physics Software and Data Management, 13) Nuclear Physics Electronics Design and Fabrication, 14) Nuclear Physics Detectors, Instrumentation and Techniques, 15) Nuclear Physics Accelerator Technology, 16) Technology to Support the Nuclear and Radiological National Security Program, 17) Technology to Detect Nuclear Proliferation and Support Nuclear Nonproliferation Agreements, 18) Research to Support Global Nuclear Explosion Monitoring, 19) Measurement/Monitoring and Characterization Technologies for the Subsurface Environment, 20) Medical Sciences, 21) Genomes to Life, and Related Biotechnologies, 22) Carbon Cycle Measurements of the Atmosphere and the Biosphere, 23) Biological Carbon Sequestration Research and Technology, 24) Atmospheric Measurement Technology, 25) Technologies to Facilitate Management of Buried Transuranic and Mixed Waste, 26) Advanced Fossil Fuels Research, 27) Advanced Technologies for Nuclear Energy, 28) Materials for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems, 29) Energy Storage Technologies for Electric and Hybrid Vehicles, 30) Innovative Research for the Hydrogen Economy, 31) Nanotechnology Applications in Industrial Chemistry, 32) Reactive Separations, 33) Neutron and Electron Beam Instrumentation, 34) Solid State Organic Light Emitting Diodes for General Lighting, 35) Innovative Waste Heat Recovery, 36) Energy Efficient Membranes, 37) Materials for Industrial Energy Systems, 38) New Energy Sources, 39) Sensors and Controls, 40) New Technologies for General Illumination Applications, 41) Measurement and Technology for Gasification, 42) Combustion Technologies and Water Resources, 43) Materials for Advanced Power Systems, 44) Greenhouse and Hydrogen Gas Research, 45) Sequestration of Carbon, 46) Natural Gas and Oil Technologies. Successful applicants (approximately 230 for SBIR and 28 for STTR) may receive up to $100,000 for a Phase I grant for a period of about nine months to develop the feasibility of the idea. Phase I awardees can apply for Phase II funding up to $750,000 for those ideas with the highest potential to meet program objectives. The closing date for this solicitation is January 6, 2004. Questions regarding this program solicitation should be addressed to the SBIR/STTR office.