NOAA SBIR — Program (Seed)
Supports United States. small businesses developing ocean and atmospheric technologies through NOAA routes.
The NOAA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) programme is a federally mandated competitive grant programme for US small businesses, administered through NOAA's Technology Partnerships Office (TPO) within the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR). The programme follows the standard three-phase federal SBIR structure: Phase I awards fund feasibility studies of approximately six mont…
NOAA S&T focus areas: Citizen Science, Data, Cloud Computing, Uncrewed Systems (UxS), Artificial Intelligence, 'Omics (genomics/eDNA).
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