How to Participate in DARPA’s SBIR and STTR Programs / September 10, 2021 by Admin

Congress established the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program in 1982 to provide opportunities for small businesses to participate in Federal Government-sponsored research and development (R&D). The goals of the SBIR Program are to: stimulate technological innovation; use small business to meet federal R&D needs; foster and encourage participation by socially and economically disadvantaged small business concerns (SBCs) and by SBCs that are at least 51 percent owned and controlled by women; and increase private-sector commercialization of innovations derived from federal R&D, thereby increasing competition, productivity, and economic growth.

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NSF Workshops to Identify Educational Requirements of the Future Ocean Technical Workforce

about a year ago

The National Science Foundation (NSF) anticipates increased investments in future ocean observing systems, ocean renewable energy systems, and other blue economy industries. Development of new instrumentation, maintenance of and improvements to equipment related to ocean-based systems, and data management efforts to ensure the quality and accuracy of the data and the analysis of large data sets generated by these systems all require a workforce with specialized training in ocean sciences, engineering, manufacturing, and data science. However, there are few academic programs that prepare students with the skills required for the expanding needs of the ocean technology workforce. Therefore, the NSF Directorate for Engineering (ENG), Division of Engineering Education and Centers (EEC) and Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI); the Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships (TIP), Division of Innovation and Technology Ecosystems (ITE); the Directorate for Geosciences, Division of Ocean Sciences (OCE); and the Directorate for Education (EDU), Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE) are encouraging proposals for workshops that will engage industry and academia in discussions that identify skills needed and curriculum changes that are required to prepare students to participate in the current and future ocean technical workforce.

Licensing Technology with NASA

about a year ago

NASA develops technology to solve the tough challenges of exploring space, advancing the understanding of our home planet, and improving air transportation. Often, those same inventions have other untapped applications. Through patent licensing. those technologies can be transformed into commercial products and solutions that can give your business that competitive edge

Administrator Guzman Applauds Passage of Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Reauthorization

about 2 years ago

Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman, head of the U.S. Small Business Administration and voice for America’s 33 million small businesses in President Biden’s Cabinet, released the following statement today after the House voted to reauthorize funding for the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. Reauthorizing the programs enables SBA and our partner federal agencies to advance domestic commercialization of innovative technologies developed through the SBIR/STTR programs. The reauthorization extends the program and critical pilot initiatives, strengthens research security due diligence efforts, expands open topics solicitations, and increases company performance standards.

Enterprise Parts Management System (EPMS)

about 2 years ago

The Department of Defense (DoD) is seeking a prototype that establishes the capability to manage electronic parts across the enterprise. The purpose of this prototype is to grant visibility into the supply chain, enable better supply chain risk management, allow aggregation of demand, improve purchasing power, enable collaborative solutions to obsolescence and other parts related issues, reduce the risk of counterfeit parts, and enable more DoD wide design modernization. EPMS will enable better microelectronics-focused parts selection and management throughout the entire life cycle of an acquisition program. By aggregating part data at the Service and DoD level, the EPMS will provide unprecedented insight into supply chains enterprise wide. Such insight will lead to improvements in traditional and cyber supply chain risk management, hardware assurance, collaborative solutions to obsolescence and other parts related issues, counterfeit prevention, and DoD wide design modernization. In addition, the demand consolidation made possible by EPMS will increase DoD’s purchasing power through economies of scale.

DARPA BRIDGES: Bringing Classified Innovation to Defense and Government Systems

about 2 years ago

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is looking for small business concerns and/or nontraditional defense contractors, that do not have facility clearances but are interested in performing classified work for the Department of Defense (DoD). The BRIDGES initiative seeks to assist small companies with disruptive ideas gain facility clearances so that they can bring innovation to the DoD, and help solve classified technical challenges.

A virtual Q&A session will be held on October 24, 2022, from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm eastern time. Registration for the Q&A session is required by October 19, 2022

SBIR Program Expiration

about 2 years ago

In about 30 days, one of the longest running and most successful small business programs will expire. The House will have 14 days in September with votes scheduled to reauthorize the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program when it returns to Washington, D.C. after Labor Day.

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