DoW STTR — Open Topics
Supports United States innovation teams in strategic technology areas across security and digital fields.
The Department of War Small Business Technology Transfer program is a companion mechanism to SBIR that mandates formal research partnerships between for-profit U.S. small businesses and U.S. universities or federally funded research and development centers. Unlike SBIR, STTR requires the small business to subcontract a statutory minimum percentage of the research work to the named research institu…
Small business plus research institution R&D on STTR-designated defense topics across DoD service components, requiring a formal partnership with a U.S. university or federally funded research and development center.
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