The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released the pre-solicitation for FY09.1. The solicitations will be accepted starting November 12, 2008. There are 7 topics in this solicitation:

The solicitation will close on December 4, 2008. All the solicitations must be submitted before 5:00 pm on that date.

All proposals submitted to NSF must be submitted electronically via the FastLane system.
For more information about the NSF FY 09 solicitation please visit http://www.nsf.gov/eng/iip/sbir/

The proposals will be accepted starting November 12, 2008 and will be due by January 22, 2009.

 

For detailed information on the research topics for the FY 09 SBIR Solicitation please visit http://tsapps.nist.gov/ts_sbir/default.asp 
 

 

 We know that a number of you are working on submitting proposals to the Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) using the infamous www.grants.gov electronic submission process.  And if you are submitting an STTR to National Science Foundation, you now have the option of using grants.gov versus NSF's FastLane system.  Based on our experience, we know that some of you will incorrectly prepare your proposal budget using the grants.gov forms, so this month we're going to point out a few common mistakes and how you can avoid them.  
 
 First, we want to make sure that anyone who is submitting a proposal to NIH under its contract solicitation is not trying to use grants.gov.  If you are submitting for the November 3, 2008 deadline, then you are submitting a contract proposal, not a grant proposal to NIH, and therefore you do not use grants.gov as your submission process.  If you are submitting an NIH contract proposal, you are dealing with a very different animal than an NIH grant, and you need to pay careful attention to the NIH contract solicitation

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