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Small Business Technology Transfer Program Phase I (SBIR/STTR Phase I)</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:white" class="ContentPasted0">Anticipated Type of Award: Standard Grant</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:white" class="ContentPasted0">Estimated Number of Awards: 250 to 360</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<li><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:white" class="ContentPasted0">approximately 250-300 awards for SBIR Phase I per year, pending the availability of funds</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></li><li><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:white" class="ContentPasted0">approximately 60 awards for STTR Phase I per year, pending the availability of funds</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:white" class="ContentPasted0">Anticipated Funding Amount: $85,000,000</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<li><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:white" class="ContentPasted0">Approximately $70,000,000 for SBIR Phase I</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></li><li><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:white" class="ContentPasted0">Approximately $15,000,000 for STTR Phase I</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></li><li><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:white" class="ContentPasted0">Estimated program budget, number of awards and average award size/duration are subject to the availability of funds.</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:white" class="ContentPasted0">Synopsis of Program:</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:white" class="ContentPasted0">The NSF SBIR/STTR program supports moving scientific excellence and technological innovation from the lab to the market.
By funding startups and small businesses, NSF hopes to build a strong national economy and stimulate the creation of novel products, services, and solutions in the private sector with potential for broad impact; strengthen the role of small business in meeting
federal research and development needs; increase the commercial application of federally supported research results; and develop and increase the US workforce, especially by fostering and encouraging participation by socially and economically disadvantaged
and women-owned small businesses.</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:white" class="ContentPasted0">The NSF SBIR/STTR program welcomes proposals from many topics and does not have a specific technological focus (please
see website at https://seedfund.nsf.gov/portfolio/ for a listing of topics and cognizant Program staff). The program is open to proposals focusing on technical and market areas not explicitly noted, and such proposals should be submitted to "Other Topics".</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:white" class="ContentPasted0">[1] R. T. Tibbetts, "NSF's three-phase program helps the small-business innovator bootstrap an idea to commercial success,"
in IEEE Spectrum, vol. 15, no. 10, pp. 86-86, Oct. 1978, doi: 10.1109/MSPEC.1978.6367918.</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#222222" class="ContentPasted0">ELIGIBILITY</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#548DD4;mso-themecolor:text2;mso-themetint:153" class="ContentPasted0">:
</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext" class="ContentPasted0">Firms qualifying as a small business concern are eligible to participate in the NSF SBIR/STTR
program (see Eligibility Guide for more information). Please note that the size limit of 500 employees includes affiliates. The firm must be in compliance with the SBIR/STTR Policy Directive(s) and the Code of Federal Regulations (13 CFR Part 121). For STTR
proposals, the applicant small business must also include a partner research institution in the project, see additional details below. AND</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext" class="ContentPasted0">Proposers that have received an official invitation to submit a proposal from the cognizant NSF
SBIR/STTR Program Director within the past twelve months. To receive the invitation, potential proposers must submit a Project Pitch document and receive an official response (via email) from the cognizant Program Director. Please see section V.A for details.</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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</span>November 22, 2022 - March 01, 2023<o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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