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A -- SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH (SBIR) PROGRAM SOLICITATION SOL DOE SC/0008 DUE 022900 POC 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 annual SBIR and STTR programs. The solicitations will be issued on November 29, 1999. Both programs will be solicited in a single document this year, which will be available on the World Wide Web at http://sbir.er.doe.gov/sbir and http://sttr.er.doe.gov/sttr. Those without Web access should either write to the SBIR/STTR Program Manager, SC-32, U.S. Department of Energy, 19901 Germantown Road, Germantown, MD 20874-1290, telephone (301) 903-1414, or e-mail sbir-sttr@science.doe.gov. For both SBIR and STTR, grant applications are sought for the following technical topics: 1) Improved Composite Materials and Processing Technologies; 2) High Performance Networks and Applications; 3) High-Speed Wireless Data-Link for Communicating from Downhole to the Surface while Drilling; 4) High-Temperature Electronics Development for Geothermal Applications; 5) Neutron Instrumentation; 6) Lithium-Based Battery Technology for Electric and Hybrid Vehicles; 7) Recovery, Recycle, and Re-Use of Polymers and Plastics; 8) Membranes for Advanced Industrial Separation Technologies; 9) Reactive Separations; 10) Development of Nonaqueous Enzymes for Chemical Production; 11) Integrative Analysis of Gene Expression in Plants and Non-Medical Microbes; 12) Genome, Structural Biology, and Related Biotechnologies; 13) Medical Sciences; 14) Biological Carbon Sequestration Research and Technology; 15) Carbon Cycle Measurements of the Atmosphere and the Biosphere; 16) Atmospheric Measurement Technology; 17) Advanced Monitoring Technologies for Soils, Sediments and Groundwater; 18) Technologies for Long-Term Monitoring of Contaminants at DOE Sites; 19) Technologies for Deactivation and Decommissioning; 20) Oil and Gas Technologies; 21) Advanced Power Systems; 22) Materials Research for Fossil Energy Applications; 23) Hydrogen and Fuels Technologies; 24) Hydrogen Program: Alternative Climate Friendly Process to Produce Fuels for Fuel Cells; 25) Fuel Cells for Buildings; 26) Advanced Technology for General Purpose Lighting; 27) Hybrid Electric Vehicle Technology; 28) BioProducts and BioEnergy Research; 29) Ocean Current Energy Capture; 30) Thermophotovoltaics; 31) Advanced Sensors and Data Analysis Techniques for National Security Applications; 32) Enabling Technologies for Active Optical Remote Sensor Systems; 33) Enabling Technologies for Passive Optical Remote Sensor Systems; 34) Nuclear Physics Instrumentation and Techniques; 35) Nuclear Physics Accelerator Technology; 36) Advanced Concepts and Technology for High Energy Physics Accelerators; 37) Radio Frequency Accelerator Technology for High Energy Physics Accelerators and Colliders; 38) High-Field Superconductor and Superconducting Magnet Technologies for High Energy Particle Colliders; 39) Technologies for the Next-Generation Electron-Positron Linear Collider; 40) High Energy Physics Detectors; 41) High Energy Physics Data Acquisition and Processing; 42) Fusion Plasma Science Research; 43) Enabling Technologies for Fusion Plasma Experiments; 44) Advanced Technologies and Materials for Future Fusion Energy Systems; and 45) Advanced Technologies for Nuclear Energy. Successful applicants (approximately 200 for SBIR and15 for STTR) may receive up to $100,000 for a Phase I grant for a period of about six months for SBIR (nine months for STTR) to develop the feasibility of the idea. Phase I awardees can apply for Phase II funding up to $750,000 for SBIR ($500,000 for STTR) for those ideas with the highest potential to meet program objectives. The closing date for this solicitation is February 29, 2000. Questions regarding this program solicitation should be addressed to the SBIR/STTR office. ***** Posted 10/27/99 (W-SN395698). (0300)

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