US Secretary of Energy Rick Perry will award 73 grants totaling $72 million to 68 small businesses in 24 states.
Funded through the Department of Energy’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs, the selections are for Phase II research and development.
Small businesses that demonstrated technical feasibility for innovations during their Phase I grants competed for funding for prototype or processes development during Phase II.
In addition, prior Phase II awardees competed for sequential Phase II awards to continue prototype and process development.
The median Phase II award is $1 million for a period of two years.
The 73 awards are funded by Office of Science programs in Advanced Scientific Computing Research, Basic Energy Sciences, and Nuclear Physics.
Proposed projects include, silicon photonics parallel processor for high performance computing and sensor networks, ceramic-metal joining of components used at high-temperature and high pressure, direct conversion of natural gas components to high value petrochemicals: isobutane to high purity isobutylene and pixel array germanium detectors for nuclear physics.
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