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NASA Announces 120 Small Research Projects

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the and-wifi-by-2017 dept.

eldavojohn writes "NASA's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) has released a list of the winning businesses that submitted research proposals in 2006. This is the second phase of a three phase award system and NASA has announced the winners. If you click on any of the projects, there is an interesting writeup of the proposal and technical abstract."

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  1. /.'ed or? by ed.mps · · Score: 2, Informative
    first link:
    http://sbir.gsfc.nasa.gov/SBIR/sbir2006/phase2/awards/2006topic.html

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  2. Every Department of the US has SBIR by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    You know that every department of the US has SBIR/STTR proposals and are required to spend a certain percentage of their budget on this. They have sponsored a lot of cool projects in the past, and hopefully will continue to do so. I don't get what is so special about NASA's this time around. Most of the projects for all of the different departments are technologically interesting or clever. If you haven't, go search all of the projects that they have funded in the past, it spurs the imagination if nothing else.

    1. Re:Every Department of the US has SBIR by GuyMannDude · · Score: 2, Informative

      There was a real boon of these in the late 1990s. By 2006 they were mostly gone. At least the DoD ones we looked at/for. What used to take us weeks to look over were down to 5 or 6 listings.

      I don't know what the hell you are talking about. The 3rd round of 2007 DoD SBIRs closed last month and there were hundreds of topics. The only thing I can guess is that either you were looking at a specific agency that typically doesn't release many topics (e.g., National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency) or you were looking at a rare round in which there were few topics. But the Army, Air Force, and Navy always release tons of topics. I've never seen a SBIR round that only had 5 or 6 total listings. I'll be the first to admit that competition for these awards is very fierce, but that's a separate issue from the number of total topics.

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