NSF Releases FY-2011 (2) SBIR
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has released its FY-2011 SBIR (2) [NSF 11-691] solicitation which will open to receive proposals on May 10, 2011 and close June 10, 2011 (due by 5 p.m. proposer’s local time).
This NSF solicitation consists of 4 broad based topics:
- Biological and Chemical Technologies (BC)
- Education Applications (EA)
- Electronics, Information and Communication Technologies (EI)
- Nanotechnology, Advanced Materials, and Manufacturing (NM)
Although the NSF SBIR program is grants based, they utilize FastLane proposal submission system rather than grants.gov. NSF accepts proposals of up to $150.000 per topic and allows only 2 proposals per solicitation from any 1 company.
This NSF solicitation is available at:
www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/nsf11691/nsf11691.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click
The main NSF SBIR web site is located at: www.nsf.gov/eng/iip/sbir/
