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A -- SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH (SBIR) PROGRAM SOLICITATION SOL DOE ER/0706 DUE 030298 POC Julie Scott, Technical Support Assistant, 301-903-0569 WEB: Click here to download the solicitation, http://sbir.er.doe.gov/sbir. The Department of Energy invites small businesses (500 employees or less) to submit grant applications in response to its sixteenth annual SBIR program solicitation to be issued on December 2, 1997. A copy of the solicitation may be obtained electronically on the World Wide Web at: http://sbir.er.doe.gov/sbir. Those without Web access can receive further instructions by writing to the SBIR Program Manager, ER-32, U.S. Department of Energy, 19901 Germantown Road, Germantown, MD 20874-1290, or by telephoning (301) 903-1414. The program solicitation is for the following technical topics: 1) Advanced Oil and Gas Technology, 2) Advanced Coal/Gas Power Systems, 3) Technologies for Clean Fuels and Specialty Products, 4) Strategies for Mitigation of Green House Gases and Pollutants, 5) Pollution Prevention by Cost-Effective Replacement of Toxic Chemicals, 6) High Performance Networks & Applications, 7) Chemically Stable, Mechanically Reliable Surface Oxides for High-Temperature Corrosion Protection, 8) Intermetallic Alloys for Structural Use, 9) Molecularly Engineered Nanoscale Materials, 10) Processing and Characterization of Thin Film Photovoltaic Materials and Devices, 11) Innovative R&D for Electric Vehicle Technologies, 12) Advanced Drilling Systems -- Computational Algorithm and Software Development, 13) Membranes for Advanced Industrial Separation Technologies, 14) High-Density, Multigene Assay of Genetic Information in Plants and Non-Medical Microbes, 15) Genome, Structural Biology, and Related Technologies, 16) Medical Applications, 17) Atmospheric Measurement and Sampling Technology, 18) Advanced Environmental Monitoring Technology, 19) Remediation of Subsurface Contaminants, 20) Technologies for Decontamination and Decommissioning, 21) Efficient Separations and Processing, 22) Nuclear Physics Instrumentation and Techniques, 23) Nuclear Physics Accelerator Technology, 24) Advanced Concepts and Technology for High Energy Accelerators, 25) Radio Frequency Accelerator Technology for High Energy Accelerators and Colliders; and Free Electron Lasers for Energy Research, 26) Advanced Cryogenic, High-Field Superconductor, and Superconducting Magnet Technologies for High Energy Particle Colliders, 27) Technologies for the Next-Generation Electron-Positron Linear Collider, 28) High Energy Data Acquisition and Processing, 29) High Energy Physics Detectors, 30) Fusion Plasma Science and Technology, 31) Fusion Materials and Components, 32) Advanced Technologies for Commercial Nuclear Power Plants and Space Power Systems, 33) Small Wind Turbine Applications, 34) Hybrid Electric Vehicle Technology, 35) Material Corrosion Prevention for Absorption Cycle Heat Pumps and Chillers, 36) Coatings for Die Casting Dies, 37) Biomass Power, 38) Advanced Transportable Analytical and Collection Technologies for Nonproliferation and Law Enforcement Applications, 39) Safeguards, Security, and Material Accountability for Special Nuclear Material. Successful applicants (approximately 200) may receive up to $75,000 for a Phase I grant for a period of about six months to develop the feasibility of the idea. Phase I awardees can apply for Phase II funding with up to $750,000 for those ideas with the highest potential to meet the SBIR program objectives. The closing date for this solicitation is March 2, 1998. Questions regarding this program solicitation should be addressed to the SBIR office at the above address, or telephone (301) 903-1414. (0317)

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