A -- SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH (SBIR) AND SMALL BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER (STTR) PROGRAMS ANNUAL SOLICITATION!!

Notice Date

October 11, 2000

Contracting Office

U.S. Department Of Energy, Document Control Specialist, Washington, DC 20585

ZIP Code

20585

Solicitation Number

DOE SC/0008

Response Due

February 20, 2001

Point of Contact

Julie Scott, Program Specialist, 301-903-0569

Description

The Department of Energy invites small businesses (500 employees or less) to submit grant applications in response to its annual SBIR and STTR programs. The combined solicitation will be issued on November 20, 2000. The solicitation will be available on the World Wide Web at http://sbir.er.doe.gov/sbir. Those without Web access should either write to the SBIR/STTR Program, SC-32, U.S. Department of Energy, 19901 Germantown Road, Germantown, MD 20874-1290, telephone (301) 903-1414, or e-mail sbir-sttr@science.doe.gov. For both SBIR and STTR, grant applications will be sought in a variety of technical areas including the following: 1) High Performance Networks, 2) High Performance Systems Software, 3) Medical Sciences, 4) Genome, Structural Biology, and Related Biotechnologies, 5) Biological Carbon Sequestration Research and Technology, 6) Carbon Cycle Measurements of the Atmosphere and the Biosphere, 7) Atmospheric Measurement Technology, 8) Environmental Monitoring Technologies for Soils, Subsurface Sediments, and Groundwater, 9) High Temperature Superconductivity for Electric Power Applications, 10) Catalyst Applications and Enabling Science for Chemical Manufacture, 11) Sensing Technologies for Corrosion Processes, 12) Intermetallic Alloys for Structural Use, 13) Improved Permanent Magnets and Processing Technologies, 14) Fuel Processing and Conversion: Catalytic Carbonaceous Feedstock Gasification, 15) Membranes for Advanced Industrial Separation Technologies, 16) Neutron and Electron Beam Instrumentation, 17) Recovery, Recycle, and Reuse of Energy Intensive Materials, 18) Reactive Separations, 19) Bioproducts and Bioenergy Research, 20) Heat Transfer Research, 21) Zero Net Energy Buildings, 22) Distributed Energy Resources -- Power Electronics and Sensors, 23) Monitoring of DOE Sites, Facilities, and Personnel, 24) Technologies for Transuranic and Mixed Waste Management, 25) Fusion Plasma Science Research, 26) Enabling Technology for Fusion Plasma Experiments, 27) Advanced Technologies and Materials for Fusion Systems, 28) Advanced Technologies for Nuclear Energy, 29) Nuclear Physics Detectors Instrumentation and Techniques, 30) Nuclear Physics Electronics Design and Fabrication, 31) Nuclear Physics Software and Data Management, 32) Nuclear Physics Accelerator Technology, 33) Advanced Sensor Technology for National Security Applications, 34) Technologies for Cost Efficient and Improved Sensor Development for National Security Applications, 35) Oil and Gas Technologies, 36) Advanced Power Systems and Control Devices, 37) Materials Research for Fossil Energy Applications, 38) Fuels Technologies and Materials for Fuel Applications, 39) High Energy Physics Detectors, 40) High Energy Physics Data Acquisition and Processing, 41) Advanced Concepts and Technology for High Energy Physics Accelerators, 42) Radio Frequency Accelerator Technology for High Energy Accelerators and Colliders, 43) High-Field Superconductor and Superconducting Magnet Technologies for High Energy Particle Colliders, and 44) Technologies for the Next-Generation Electron-Positron Linear Collider. Successful applicants (approximately 200 for SBIR and 15 for STTR) may receive up to $100,000 for a Phase I grant for a period of about six months for SBIR (nine months for STTR) to develop the feasibility of the idea. Phase I awardees can apply for Phase II funding up to $750,000 for SBIR ($500,000 for STTR) for those ideas with the highest potential to meet program objectives. The closing date for this solicitation is February 20, 2001. Questions regarding this program solicitation should be addressed to the SBIR/STTR office. *****

Record

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