Is Your Organization Eligible for a DoD SBIR/STTR? To be eligible for the SBIR Program your organization must be a Small Business Concern (SBC) and the Principal Investigator (PI), effectively the project manager and/or lead researcher, must be fully employed by your organization and cannot have full-time employment elsewhere.  These...

The DoD expects a higher level of small business accounting sophistication between Phase I and Phase II. With Phase I SBIR or STTR awards, the Federal government usually expects the small business to have a basic system due to the low dollar amount. For a potentially 10-fold increase in dollars,...

DoD SBIR Contracts: What do you give up? We started this series of posts with: Is your organization eligible for a DoD SBIR? Registration requirement to participate in DoD SBIR? With this post, we want to discuss what do you give up by receiving a DoD SBIR contract.  You have...

What is the SBIR Program? The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program is a federal government project that promotes domestic small business Research/Research and Development (R/R&D) towards government objectives.  The program is highly competitive with an average success rate of around 10%.  There are several participating agencies in the SBIR...