NOAA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)

NOAA's SBIR program sits in the Technology Partnerships Office under the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research and serves as the agency's competitive route for U.S. small businesses. It follows the familiar three-phase SBIR path from feasibility to full R&D to commercialization, and NOAA frames the work around citizen science, data, cloud computing, uncrewed systems, artificial intelligence, and omics. The same office also handles technology transfer, so the program sits close to NOAA's applied science pipeline rather than to a general grant pool. The program uses grants, runs annually, and is restricted to U.S. small businesses. The public summary does not publish a standard award cap, but the program is set up as the usual federal SBIR ladder rather than a single one-off competition. NOAA's science focus is broad enough to cover ocean, atmosphere, weather, fisheries, satellites, and coastal data use cases, which gives the program a wide but still NOAA-specific scope. This route fits companies building NOAA-relevant technology that can move from proof to deployment, especially in ocean, atmosphere, data, and sensing applications. Strong candidates usually map to one of NOAA's science and technology themes and can show a clear commercialization path, with a product that can serve a real operational need inside the agency or in adjacent markets.

Each grant below is a distinct funding opportunity with its own eligibility, scope, and deliverables.