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Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR)

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Archived funding opportunity

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Important information about NSF’s implementation of the revised 2 CFR

NSF Financial Assistance awards (grants and cooperative agreements) made on or after October 1, 2024, will be subject to the applicable set of award conditions, dated October 1, 2024, available on the NSF website. These terms and conditions are consistent with the revised guidance specified in the OMB Guidance for Federal Financial Assistance published in the Federal Register on April 22, 2024.

Important information for proposers

All proposals must be submitted in accordance with the requirements specified in this funding opportunity and in the NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) that is in effect for the relevant due date to which the proposal is being submitted. It is the responsibility of the proposer to ensure that the proposal meets these requirements. Submitting a proposal prior to a specified deadline does not negate this requirement.

Synopsis

The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program stimulates technological innovation in the private sector by strengthening the role of small business concerns in meeting Federal research and development needs, increasing the commercial application of federally supported research results, and fostering and encouraging participation by socially and economically disadvantaged and women-owned small businesses.

The SBIR program solicits proposals from the small business sector consistent with NSF's mission. The program is governed by Public Law 112-81 (SBIR/STTR Reauthorization Act of 2011). A main purpose of the legislation is to stimulate technological innovation and increase private sector commercialization. The NSF SBIR program is therefore in a unique position to meet both the goals of NSF and the purpose of the SBIR legislation by transforming scientific discovery into both social and economic benefit, and by emphasizing private sector commercialization.

Accordingly, NSF has formulated broad solicitation topics for SBIR that conform to the high-technology investment sector's interests. The topics are detailed on the SBIR/STTR topics homepage. 

Note: The submission of the same project idea to both this SBIR Phase I solicitation and the concurrent STTR Phase I solicitation is strongly discouraged.

More information about the NSF SBIR Program can be found on the Program Homepage.

Program contacts

Name Email Phone Organization
Peter Atherton
Information and Communication Technologies (IC) 		patherto@nsf.gov (703) 292-8772 TIP/TI
Prakash Balan
Chemical and Environmental Technologies (CT) 		pbalan@nsf.gov (703) 292-5341 ENG/EEC
Steven Konsek
Semiconductors (S) and Photonic (PH) Devices and Materials 		skonsek@nsf.gov (703) 292-7021
Glenn H. Larsen
Educational Technologies and Applications (EA) 		glarsen@nsf.gov (703) 292-4607
Rajesh Mehta
Advanced Manufacturing and Nanotechnology (MN) 		rmehta@nsf.gov (703) 292-2174 TIP/TI
Muralidharan S. Nair
Electronic Hardware, Robotics and Wireless Technologies (EW) 		mnair@nsf.gov (703) 292-7059
Benaiah Schrag
Advanced Materials and Instrumentation (MI) 		bschrag@nsf.gov (703) 292-8323 TIP/TI
Ruth M. Shuman
Biological Technologies (BT) 		rshuman@nsf.gov (703) 292-2160 TIP/TI
Jesus V. Soriano
Smart Health (SH) and Biomedical (BM) Technologies 		jsoriano@nsf.gov (703) 292-7795 ENG/EEC

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