{"id":138,"date":"2003-01-30T17:34:59","date_gmt":"2003-01-30T22:34:59","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2003-01-30T17:34:59","modified_gmt":"2003-01-30T22:34:59","slug":"nasa-selects-nine-innovative-small-business-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=138","title":{"rendered":"NASA SELECTS NINE INNOVATIVE SMALL BUSINESS PROJECTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA has selected nine research proposals for negotiation of Phase 2 contract awards for the 2001 Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nPhase 2 continues development of the most promising previously selected Phase 1 projects. Selection criteria include scientific and technical merit, company capabilities, commercial potential, future importance and eventual value of the innovation to NASA. Funding for Phase 2 contracts may be up to $500,000 for a two-year performance period.<\/p>\n<p>Contractors completing Phase 1 projects submitted a total of 18 Phase 2 proposals. All proposals were peer reviewed for both technical merit and commercial potential. The combined award total for the nine Phase 2 contracts is expected to be $4.5 million. <\/p>\n<p>The STTR Program is designed to stimulate technological innovation; help small businesses become better qualified to assist NASA in its research and development; and increase private commercialization of federally funded research. The program also requires small businesses to conduct cooperative research and development by partnering with a research institution.<\/p>\n<p>The goals of the STTR program are to stimulate technological innovation; increase the use of small business, including women-owned and disadvantaged firms, to meet federal research and development needs; and to increase private sector commercialization of federally funded research results. Two of the nine companies announced today are disadvantaged firms.<\/p>\n<p>The STTR Program Management Office is located at NASA&#8217;s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. NASA&#8217;s Office of Aerospace Technology, Washington provides executive oversight. Individual STTR projects are managed by the 10 NASA field centers. <\/p>\n<p>A listing of the selected companies is on the Internet at: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sbir.nasa.gov\"  target=\"_blank\"<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/sbir.nasa.gov  <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA has selected nine research proposals for negotiation of Phase 2 contract awards for the 2001 Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":612598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-NASA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/612598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}