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The SBIR program is a three-phase competitive award program designed to stimulate technological innovation among U.S. small businesses while providing new, cost-effective, technical and scientific solutions to challenging problems.
Contracts are awarded based on scientific and technical merit for meeting Air Force R&D needs along with the proposal's potential for commercialization.

Three-phase program
Phase I: Used to establish concept feasibility – $100K/9 months.
Phase II: Used for Proof of Concept – primarily R&D and concept for commercial applications - $750K/24 months.
Phase III: Used to pursue private and public sector applications of R&D product or process. Source of follow-on funding must come from private capital and non-SBIR funds.
Phase I and Phase II R&D work must be performed by the small business concern in the United States. Joint ventures and limited partnerships are permitted as long as the entity created qualifies as a small business according to the Small Business Act 15 U.S.C. 631 and as defined by the SBIR Program.

Award winner may obtain title to inventions. Funding cannot be used for funding administrative costs (salaries/expenses). Five-year confidentially limit on data.