When can I apply? The Department of Defense issues three SBIR and three STTR Broad Agency Announcements (BAA) for proposals annually. Each BAA has a pre-release, open, and close period. During the pre-release period the government is not accepting proposals, but small businesses can discuss technical questions directly with the...

Two innovation programs are the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR).  These programs have similar objectives, but differ in two major ways related to the Principal Investigator (PI) and non-profit research partner.  The PI will be better defined later, but for now think of the...