Small Business Innovative Research Program

1. Small Business Innovative Research Program The Small Business Innovation Development Act (1982, 1992) requires each federal agency with a R&D budget exceeding $100M to establish a SBIR program with the purpose of • Stimulating technological innovation; • Using small business to meet federal R&D needs; • Encouraging participation by minority and disadvantaged persons in technological innovation; and • Increasing private sector commercialization derived from federal R&D. Each agency makes its own awards using contracts, grants or cooperative agreements.

2. Who conducts the research or work? Principal Investigatormust spend > 50% time employed by small business at time of award and during conduct of the effort. Proposing Firmmust perform  2/3 research and/or analytical effort during Phase I and  1/2 during Phase II. Subcontractors or consultants (including university researchers) may perform the remaining work.

3. Agency R&D Interests • Agencies with distinct missions (defense, energy, NASA, …) focus on solving specific targeted problems of interest to the agency, and their R&D is usually conducted with direct applications in mind. • Emphasis is on originality and innovativeness in the approach to solving a problem. • Agencies with missions to support generic science/technology (NSF, NIH) solicit research aimed at solving problems that enhance knowledge in selected areas of agency interest. • Emphasis is on originality and innovativeness in the contribution to the scientific/technical discipline.

4. The Solicitation “Rules” for submission of a proposal to the agency • Topics on which proposals may be submitted • Eligibility criteria for awards • Information to be included in proposals • Evaluation criteria • Procedures (proposal length, deadlines, …) • Budget (total funding, limits, profit allowed, …)

5. Categories of Solicitation Topics • Producea product with performance characteristics described in the topics statement • Solve a particular problem important to the agency’s mission • Perform research in a technical area, the advancement of which would have implications for the agency’s future needs

6. Agency Release Date Closing Date Web address Department of Agriculture January 1, 2002 August 29, 2002 http://www.reeusda.gov/crgam/sbir/#Program Department of Commerce NOAA NIST October 30, 2001 January 16, 2002 http://www.rdc.noaa.gov/~amd/sbir.html http://www.nist.gov/sbir Department of Defense SBIR 2002.1 SBIR 2002.2 December 3, 2001 July 1, 2002 January 16, 2002 August 14,2002 http://www.acq.osd.mil/sadbu/sbir/ Department of Education Exact Date TBD Late January 2002 Exact Date TBD Mid April 2002 http://www.ed.gov/offices/OERI/SBIR/ Department of Energy October 15, 2001 January 15, 2002 http://sbir.er.doe.gov/sbir Department of Health and Human Services --National Institutes of Health (PHS 2002-1) -National Institutes of Health -Center for Medicare/Medicaid Services -Administration for Children and Families August 8, 2001 Dec 21, 2001 January 2, 2002 April 1, 2002 November 9, 2001 April 1, 2002 August 1, 2002 December 1, 2002 March 31, 2002 June 30, 2002 http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/sbir.htm Department of Transportation February 15, 2002 May 1, 2002 http://www.volpe.dot.gov/sbir/ EPA January 21, 2002 March 28, 2002 March 21, 2002 May 23, 2002 www.epa.gov/ncerqa/sbir NASA June 6, 2002 August 8, 2002 http://sbir.nasa.gov/ NSF March 1, 2002 June 12, 2002 http://www.eng.nsf.gov/sbir/ *Last Modified: 9-17-01