WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry announced that the Department of Energy (DOE) will award 179 grants totaling $30 million to 149 small businesses in 36 states. Funded through DOE’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs, today’s selections are for Phase I research and development.
The Phase I grants will allow small businesses to research technical feasibility of new innovations that advance the mission of the Office of Science. Phase I grants are 6-12 months in duration with a median award amount of $150,000. Successful Phase I grantees will be eligible to apply for Phase II awards in FY 2019 that will allow them to develop novel prototypes or processes to validate their Phase I research findings. Phase II grants will have a median award amount of $1,000,000 and a duration up to 2 years.
Highlighted below are selected grants for each of the research and development programs that provided funding for these projects:
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Office of Advanced Scientific Computing
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Photonic-Storage Subsystem Input/Output Interface
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Next-Generation Analysis and Visualization Platform for Manufacturing and Engineering Workflows
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Security Analysis and Monitoring to Prevent Abuse of High Performance Computing Environments
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Office of Basic Energy Sciences
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New Approaches to Extract Graphene Quantum Dots from Coals
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Simultaneous Removal of Inorganics and Organics from Fracking Water Using Supercritical Water
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Extreme Temperature Sample Environment for Materials Research using Neutron Scattering
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Office of Biological and Environmental Research
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An in-situ Device to Monitor Root-soil-microbe Interactions
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Methods for Atom Probe Tomography of Biological Materials
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Ultraviolet/Near-infrared Aerosol Absorption Monitor
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Office of Nuclear Physics
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High Efficiency RF Power Sources for Accelerator Applications
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Radiation Hardened Infrared Focal Plane Arrays
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Novel Design for High Field, Large Aperture Quadrupoles for Electron-Ion Collider
Additional information on DOE’s SBIR/STTR programs is available HERE. More information about the projects announced today is available HERE.
Source: U.S. Department of Energy
