The two day Error Correction Window for NIH, AHRQ and NIOSH grant applications has been eliminated as of January 25, 2011. Your SBIR/STTR applications must be submitted and error free by 5PM your local time on April 5th and for all future deadlines. Applicants still will be able to view their application and reject and submit a corrected application prior to the submission deadline. Submit early!
The Error Correction Window was originally implemented in late 2005 to facilitate transition from paper to electronic submission of grant applications. All late applications will now be subject to the NIH late policy and may not be accepted for review. Any post-submission application materials will be subject to the new policy detailed in the NIH Guide Notice NOT-OD-10-115. NIH will continue to make accommodations for Federal system issues that threaten or prevent on-time submission of an individual application, if appropriately documented and verified by NIH support staff.
See the full notice at the NIH website.
The National Cancer Institute, a part of the National Institutes of Health, announced release of the 2011 Phase II Bridge Award program. The grant will bridge the funding gap, or “valley of death”, between SBIR Phase II and Phase III projects and must be matched by third party investors.
As many as ten grants of up to $1 million per year for up to three years will awarded in 2011. Development efforts may include preclinical R&D or clinical trials in three project areas:
(1) cancer therapeutics
(2) cancer imaging technologies, interventional devices and in vivo diagnostics
(3) in vitro and ex vivo cancer diagnostics and prognostics
Complete information can be found on the National Cancer Institute’s SBIR announcements website.
To apply for the SBIR Phase II Bridge Award, a letter of intent must be submitted by March 7, 2011. Full applications are due by April 7.
The US Department of Defense has pre-released an SBIR Solicitation. Proposals are accepted starting December 13th and ending January 12th, 2010. Topics in this solicitation are numerous and include solicitations from the Army, Navy, CBD, DARPA, DTRA, OSD-DHP, and SOCOM.
Between November 10 and December 12, 2010, Topic Authors are available to answer technical questions about the topics. Topic Author’s names, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses are listed within each solicitation topic document. Proposals must follow DoD general instructions as well as the requirements of the specific DoD division. Click here to access the DoD SBIR post for full solicitation details.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate has released an SBIR Solicitation. Responses are accepted starting Novemeber 18th and ending January 6th, 2010. Topics in this solicitation are:
- Small Vessel Identification and Tracking Technologies
- Preparation of Environmental Samples for Biological Detection
- Public Safety Broadband Mobile Application for Mission Critical Voice
- Monolithic, Electronically and Widely Tunable Semiconductor-Based Infrared Laser Sources
- Mitigation of Contact Lens, Eye Surgery, Pupil Dilation, and Other Challenges on Iris Recognition
- Improved Firefighter Face Piece Lenses for Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus
Click here to read the full solicitation for further details.
The National Institutes of Standards and Technology has issued it’s 2011 SBIR solicitation. Proposals are being accepted as of November 4th and will be due no later than January 28th, 2011. Budgets may not exceed $90,000 for Phase I. Click here to see the full details and instructions in the solicitation.
The topics for this solicitation are
- Ontologies for Modeling Enterprise Level Security Metrics
- Instrument for Characterization of Environmental Soot Aggregates
- Instrument for Detection of Inhaler Dose Concentration
- mm-Wave Phase Noise Measurement System Using Photonic Delay-Line
- High-accuracy relative angle monitoring apparatus
- Real-time intensity monitoring of laboratory X-ray sources
- Electrical Connectors for Millimeter-Wave Instrumentation
- Standard OWL Reasoning Support for Physical Quantities and Units
- Development of an SCAP Content Creation Tool
- Non-contact microwave measurement of electrical properties of nanofiber materials
- An Automated Test-bed for Assessing System-of-System (SoS) Assurance
- Cloud Computing Security Discriminators
- Monitoring for Complex Information Systems
- Environmental Chambers for an Integrating Sphere-based Weathering Device
- Calibration of Critical Dimension Scanning Electron Microscopes
- RFID-Integrated Sensor Networks
- Sustainable Manufacturing Maturity Model Development
- Dynamic Six Degree of Freedom (6DOF) Vision System
- Development of anion exchange resins for chirality-based separation of single walled carbon nanotubes
- 3D Tip Characterization and Surface Reconstruction voiding
- Ultrafast Optical Detector at 1550 nm
- Orientation-Patterned Gallium Arsenide
- Decision support tools for Sustainable Manufacturing
- A Common Platform for Microrobotics Research
- Semi-Autonomous, Articulated Forklift (SAAF) in Close Proximity to Workers
- Parallel Signal-Processing System for High-Resolution Tomography
- High-Efficiency Visible Light Photon Counters
- High-Resolution Optical Pulse Shaper
- Disassembly Model and Analysis Tools for End-of-service Life Product Treatment
- Sustainability Performance Analysis Tools for Evaluating Manufacturing Processes
- Production of ISMRM/NIST MRI Calibration Phantoms voiding
- Signal Processing Methods for High-Dimensional Microsensor Data Streams
- Development of a MEMS Oscillatory Parallel-Plate Rheometer
- Micro-cruciform tensile stage for XRD and SEM/EBSD
The National Science Foundation has issued it’s 2011 STTR solicitation. Proposals will begin being accepted on October 17th and will be due no later than November 17th. Budgets may not exceed $150,000.
The STTR (Small Business Technology Transfer) will require a partnership between a small business and a non-profit research institute (usually a university). The researchers at the research institute must play a significant intellectual role in the STTR project, but the Principal Investigator (PI) must be primarily employed with the small business and the small business must still conduct at least 40% of the technical effort.
The only topic for this solicitation is “Digital Gaming for Education” (DGE). Within that main topic, there are 4 subtopics. Proposals that do not fit within one of these 4 subtopics will NOT be accepted:
Digital Gaming in Education for Learning:
A. Informal (I)
B. Formal (F)
Digital Gaming in Education for Culture and Society:
C. Cross Cultural Dialogue and Discoveries (CCDD)
D. Platforms for Healthy Living (PHL)
Details and instructions are found in the solicitation.
The Department of Defense has pre-issued two solicitations simultaneously: an SBIR (SBIR 2010.3) and an STTR (STTR 2010.B). There are separate topics for each solicitation, so you cannot submit an SBIR proposal for an STTR topic and vice versa. Utilize the DOD Topic Search Engine to find topics that match your company’s capabilities.
Read the solicitations in detail as SBIR and STTR are slightly different. Also, read the separate Component-specific (Army, AF, DARPA, MDA, etc.) instructions as proposal requirements vary among the Components.
The DOD will begin accepting proposals on August 17th and all proposals must be submitted before 6:00 AM on September 15th. You are urged to contact the topic Technical Point of Contact (TPOC) to ask additional technical questions not found in the topic itself. You may NOT make direct contact with the TPOC after August 16th–don’t wait until the last minute to ask questions and expect them to respond to you ASAP, it might take some time for them to get back with you.
Your company will need a Tax ID #, DUNs #, and CAGE code before you register to submit your proposal. If you do not have these numbers, you need to start soon as obtaining these numbers might take some time. See the document “Registration Requirements” for more information.
NASA has pre-released its 2010 SBIR and STTR solicitations. The full combined SBIR/STTR solicitation will be available on July 19th. The NASA SBIR and STTR 2010 technical topics and subtopics support the NASA Mission Directorates of Space Operations, Aeronautics Research, Science, and Exploration Systems. To write an effective proposal, be sure to understand the purpose and focus of the Mission Directorate–understand how your proposed solution will help fulfill that specific Mission.
There will be many topics and subtopics that fall within these Mission Directorates. Full list of Topics and Subtopics will be available on the 19th. Meanwhile, take a look at last years’ 2009 solicitation topics to give you an indication of projected 2010 topic areas.
All contractual and technical questions must be submitted in writing via email to Cassandra Williams, Contracting Officer (vog.asannull@1-smailliw.ardnassac), not later than August 13, 2010. NOTE: To ensure fairness, questions relating to the intent and/or content of research topics in this Solicitation will not be addressed during the Phase 1 solicitation period. Only questions requesting clarification of proposal instructions and administrative matters will be addressed.
When the solicitation opens on the 19th, it will be posted on NASA’s SBIR/STTR site.
All Phase I proposals will be due on September 4th.
The USDA has released it’s FY 2011 SBIR solicitation. Proposals will be due no later than September 2nd and must include a budget of no more than $100,000 for an 8-month period.
The USDA National Institute for Food and Agriculture (NIFA) has identified five primary “societal challenge areas”. Proposals that fit in one of the topics below AND address these challenge areas are highly encouraged:
1. Global Food Security and Hunger
2. Climate Change
3. Sustainable Bioenergy
4. Childhood Obesity
5. Food Safety
Proposals are also encouraged in these government-wide initiatives:
1. Agriculturally-related Manufacturing Technology
2. Energy Efficiency and Alternative and Renewable Energy
The Topics for this solicitiation are:
8.1-Forests and Related Resources;
8.2-Plant Production and Protection – Biology;
8.3-Animal Production and Protection;
8.4-Air, Soil and Water Resources;
8.5-Food Science and Nutrition;
8.6-Rural and Community Development;
8.7-Aquaculture;
8.8- Biofuels and Biobased Products;
8.12-Small and Mid Size Farms;
8.13-Plant Production and Protection – Engineering
Please be sure to read the solicitation for proposal preparation instructions and topic descriptions.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate has an open SBIR Solicitation. Proposals are due on June 24th and could result in Phase I Awards up to $100,000. Companies may contact the DHS with technical questions before June 10th. Topics in this solicitation are:
- Detector for Smuggled Currency
- Next Generation Vacuum Systems for Hand-held Mass Spectrometers
- Large-Scale Network Survivability, Rapid Recovery, and Reconstitution
- Non-Detonable, Non-Hazardous, Low-Cost, Hexamethylene Triperoxide Diamine (HMTD) Training Aids for Canines
- Automated Tool for Assessing Usability
- Helmet with Embedded Active Display for Emergency Responders (HEADER)
- Accelerating the Deployment of DHS Center of Excellence Research through Advanced Business Practices
- Handheld Multisensor Wand for the Detection of Threat or Illicit Objects on Persons
- Personal Situational Awareness App
Read the solicitation for further details.
NOTE: DHS encourages submission of topics for future solicitations. Check their site out for more details.