Volume 9, Number 4 • July/August 2001 • Small Business/SBIR

Phase II Awards Announced

NASA has selected 27 research proposals for negotiation of Phase II contract awards for the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program. The selected projects, which have a total value of approximately $16 million, will be conducted by 25 small, high-technology firms located in 13 states.

The goals of this NASA program are to stimulate technological innovation, increase the use of small business (including women-owned and disadvantaged firms) in meeting federal research and development needs, and to increase private sector commercialization of results of federally funded research.

A total of 267 proposals were submitted by SBIR contractors completing Phase I projects. These proposals were evaluated to determine that they met SBIR Phase I objectives and were feasible research innovations for meeting agency needs. The new selections were combined with the 110 proposals selected last year.

Phase II continues with the development of the most promising Phase I projects. Selection criteria include technical merit and innovation, Phase I results, value to NASA, commercial potential and company capabilities. Funding for Phase II contracts may be up to $600,000 for a two-year performance period.

The NASA SBIR Program Management Office is located at the Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, with executive oversight by NASA’s Office of Aerospace Technology, located at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC. Individual SBIR projects are managed by NASA’s ten Field Centers.

A listing of the selected companies can be found at http://sbir.nasa.gov Q

For more information, contact Michael Braukus at NASA Headquarters, & 202/358-1979, ) mbraukus@hq.nasa.gov Please mention you read about it in Innovation.

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