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Annual $1.2B R&D Funding opportunities of DoD SBIR/STTR Programs

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The Department of Defense (DoD) invests $1.2B in research and development through the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Programs. These DoD set-aside programs stimulate cooperative technological innovation by investing in small business and university partners.to address Warfighter needs. In FY15, DoD solicited more than 600 topics that yielded roughly 10,000 Phase I proposals and 1,500 Phase I awards. One third of the applicants were new to the program and have less than nine employees. This presentation aims to engage and encourage IEEE innovators with an insider’s perspective on the DoD SBIR/STTR opportunities, with a specific focus on the Army’s STTR program.

Speaker:

Dr. Brad Guay manages the Army’s $30M STTR Program at the Army Research Office in Research Triangle Park, NC. He and 13 other Program Managers at the Department of Defense (DoD) are responsible for executing the $1.2B Congressionally-mandated Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Programs. Prior to his current position, Dr. Guay was a Branch Chief at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Engineering Research and Development Center (2006-11), and a hydrologist for the USACE (Buffalo District) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Region 2). He holds a BA in Geology from the University of Maine and a PhD from the University of Arizona in Renewable Natural Resources.