You are here
Closed
NOTE: The Solicitations and topics listed on this site are copies from the various SBIR agency solicitations and are not necessarily the latest and most up-to-date. For this reason, you should visit the respective agency SBIR sites to read the official version of the solicitations and download the appropriate forms and rules.
-
M1: Personalized Manufacturing
Release Date: 02-25-2014Open Date: 05-10-2014Due Date: 06-10-2014Close Date: 06-10-2014Innovative, new-to-the-world manufacturing methods and machines leading to mass customization. The applications may include (but are not limited to) clothing, footwear, furniture, ear buds, dental restorations, and person-specific medical devices such as headbands, hearing aids etc. The resultant products may need to be cost competitive with the relevant mass manufactured products. Proposals may a ...
SBIRPhase INational Science Foundation -
M2: Additive Manufacturing
Release Date: 02-25-2014Open Date: 05-10-2014Due Date: 06-10-2014Close Date: 06-10-2014Innovations in processes or machines that permit manufacturing through a layering process, including 3D printing, to achieve fabrication of a range of products including near net shape products. Proposals by young companies to develop sustainable businesses based on 3D printing are especially encouraged. Proposals are also encouraged that permit the manufacturing of complex multi-scale and/or mult ...
SBIRPhase INational Science Foundation -
M3: Manufacturing for Emerging Markets
Release Date: 02-25-2014Open Date: 05-10-2014Due Date: 06-10-2014Close Date: 06-10-2014Transformative technological innovations that enable the manufacturing of ultra-low-cost products designed to tap into the vast commercial potential of global underserved markets. The proposals must aim to produce products that are affordable and that have significant societal impact in the intended markets such as enhancing accessibility, reducing environmental impact, improving health etc.
SBIRPhase INational Science Foundation -
M4: Industrial Ecology and Sustainable Manufacturing Technology
Release Date: 02-25-2014Open Date: 05-10-2014Due Date: 06-10-2014Close Date: 06-10-2014Proposals may cover technologies that take a system approach to green engineering for industrial, residential, and commercial infrastructure, industrial manufacturing infrastructure design innovations; technologies that present new process and system design paradigms enhancing environmental sustainability with reductions in carbon footprint and ways of enhancing the sourcing, use, and recycle of m ...
SBIRPhase INational Science Foundation -
M5: Manufacturing Processes
Release Date: 02-25-2014Open Date: 05-10-2014Due Date: 06-10-2014Close Date: 06-10-2014Innovative technologies for the processing of a variety of materials, including metals, alloys, ceramics, polymers, and novel composites using processes such as casting, forming, machining, and joining. Proposals that lead to significantly improved efficiency (in terms of materials, energy, time, or money) and sustainability are encouraged. The topic also includes on-line detection and/or control ...
SBIRPhase INational Science Foundation -
M6: Transportation Technologies
Release Date: 02-25-2014Open Date: 05-10-2014Due Date: 06-10-2014Close Date: 06-10-2014Proposed projects might include (but are not limited to) the reduction of engine emissions; the reduction of greenhouse gases resulting from combustion; vehicle weight reduction; vehicle components; improved engine and fuel efficiency; reduction of SOx, NOx, and particulates resulting from combustion; reduction in wear and environmental pollutants. Projects may include technologies of commercial i ...
SBIRPhase INational Science Foundation -
M7: Manufacturing Technologies involving Chemical Transformations
Release Date: 02-25-2014Open Date: 05-10-2014Due Date: 06-10-2014Close Date: 06-10-2014New process technologies for the production of novel materials include (but not limited to) high-performance bio-materials, inorganic and composite materials, alloys, novel materials with optimized design at an atomic scale, nano- and micro-scale metallic materials, and nano-materials and metallurgical products of commercial relevance.
SBIRPhase INational Science Foundation -
M8: Machines and Equipment
Release Date: 02-25-2014Open Date: 05-10-2014Due Date: 06-10-2014Close Date: 06-10-2014Innovative machines and equipment in a range of operations for making nano-, micro-, and macro-scale products in all industries, including manufacturing, construction, and recycling. Innovative equipment modification or retrofitting to enable manufacturing of completely new products is encouraged.
SBIRPhase INational Science Foundation -
M9: Modeling & Simulation
Release Date: 02-25-2014Open Date: 05-10-2014Due Date: 06-10-2014Close Date: 06-10-2014Innovations in the modeling and simulation ofenterprise operations, manufacturing processes for intermediate or finished products, machines and equipment, including predictive modeling of tooling and machine performance and discrete event simulation of manufacturing systems. Innovative approaches that bring the benefits of cloud computing and/or big data analytics to the manufacturing sector are e ...
SBIRPhase INational Science Foundation -
PH3: Energy
Release Date: 02-25-2014Open Date: 05-10-2014Due Date: 06-10-2014Close Date: 06-10-2014Subtopic includes (but is not limited to) photovoltaic materials and devices, systems for smart glass applications, breakthrough thermophotovoltaics, metamaterials, and materials and systems for solar thermal applications.
SBIRPhase INational Science Foundation