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:
- Office of Advanced Scientific Computing
- Photonic-Storage Subsystem Input/Output Interface
- Next-Generation Analysis and Visualization Platform for Manufacturing and Engineering Workflows
- Security Analysis and Monitoring to Prevent Abuse of High Performance Computing Environments
- Office of Basic Energy Sciences
- New Approaches to Extract Graphene Quantum Dots from Coals
- Simultaneous Removal of Inorganics and Organics from Fracking Water Using Supercritical Water
- Extreme Temperature Sample Environment for Materials Research using Neutron Scattering
- Office of Biological and Environmental Research
- An in-situ Device to Monitor Root-soil-microbe Interactions
- Methods for Atom Probe Tomography of Biological Materials
- Ultraviolet/Near-infrared Aerosol Absorption Monitor
- Office of Nuclear Physics
- High Efficiency RF Power Sources for Accelerator Applications
- Radiation Hardened Infrared Focal Plane Arrays
- 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.
