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A -- SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH (SBIR) PROGRAM SOLICITATION SOL DOE ER/0731 DUE 030299 POC Point of Contact -- Julie Scott, Program Support Specialist, 301-903-0569 The Department of Energy invites small businesses (500 employees or less) to submit grant applications in response to its seventeenth annual SBIR program solicitation to be issued on December 1, 1998. The solicitation will be available on the World Wide Web at http://sbir.er.doe.gov/sbir. Those without Web access should either write to the SBIR Program Manager, ER-32, U.S. Department of Energy, 19901 Germantown Road, Germantown, MD 20874-1290, telephone (301) 903-1414, or e-mail sbir-sttr@oer.doe.gov. The program solicitation is for the following technical topics: 1) Biomass Power, 2) High-Temperature Electronics for Geothermal Drilling, 3) Advanced Measurement and Control Technologies for Industrial Manufacturing Applications, 4) Hybrid Electric Vehicle Technology, 5) Systems and Products for Passive Solar Low Energy Buildings, 6) Coal/Gas Power Systems, 7) Recovery and Utilization of Fossil Fuels, 8) Fusion Plasma Science Research, 9) Enabling Technologies for Fusion Plasma Research, 10) Advanced Technologies and Materials for Future Fusion Systems, 11) Advanced Concepts and Technology for High Energy Accelerators, 12) Radio Frequency Accelerator Technology for High Energy Accelerators and Colliders, 13) High-Field Superconductor and Superconducting Magnet Technologies for High Energy Particle Colliders, 14) Technologies for the Next-Generation Electron-Positron Linear Collider, 15) High Energy Physics Data Acquisition and Processing, 16) High Energy Physics Detectors, 17) Nuclear Physics Instrumentation and Techniques, 18) Nuclear Physics Accelerator Technology, 19) Waste Characterization, 20) Waste Treatment and Stabilization, 21) Technology for Treatment, Management, and Disposition of Uranium Hexafluoride, 22) Advanced Environmental Monitoring Technology, 23) Atmospheric Measurement and Sampling Technology, 24) Carbon Cycle Measurements of the Atmosphere and the Biosphere, 25) Medical Applications, 26) Genome, Structural Biology, and Related Biotechnologies, 27) High-Density, Multigene Assay of Genetic Information in Plants and Non-Medical Microbes, 28) Metal Forming, 29) Processing for Surface Hardness, 30) Materials Joining, 31) Superconductivity Materials for Electric Power, 32) Neutron Instrumentation, 33) Alternative Synthetic Pathways for Energy Efficient and Economic Industrial Chemical Manufacture, 34) Reactive Separations, 35) Innovative R&D for Advanced, Low-Emission, Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Technologies, 36) Computational Geosciences, 37) High Performance Networks and Applications, 38) Advanced Sensors and Data Analysis Techniques for National Security Applications, 39) Advanced Research in Support of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test Ban Treaty, and 40) Advanced Research and Development into Detection and Clearance Technologies for Unexploded Ordnance. Successful applicants (approximately 200) may receive up to $75,000 for a Phase I grant for a period of about six months to develop the feasibility of the idea. Phase I awardees can apply for Phase II funding with up to $750,000 for thoseideas with the highest potential to meet the SBIR program objectives. The closing date for this solicitation is March 2, 1999. Questions regarding this program solicitation should be addressed to the SBIR office.***** Posted 11/24/98 (W-SN274580). (0328)

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