Secretary of Energy Rick Perry announces $150,000 for Small Business Research and Development Grant in South Carolina
February 28, 2018
Today, U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry announced that the Department of Energy (DOE) will award 179 grants totaling $30 million to 149 small businesses in 36 states including 1 in South Carolina totaling $150,000. Funded through DOE’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs, today’s selections are for Phase I research and development.
The Phase I grants will allow small businesses to research technical feasibility of new innovations that advance the mission of the Office of Science. Phase I grants are 6-12 months in duration with a median award amount of $150,000. Successful Phase I grantees will be eligible to apply for Phase II awards in FY 2019 that will allow them to develop novel prototypes or processes to validate their Phase I research findings. Phase II grants will have a median award amount of $1,000,000 and a duration up to 2 years.
Highlighted below are selected grants for each of the research and development programs that provided funding for these projects:
- Office of Advanced Scientific Computing
- Photonic-Storage Subsystem Input/Output Interface
- Next-Generation Analysis and Visualization Platform for Manufacturing and Engineering Workflows
- Security Analysis and Monitoring to Prevent Abuse of High Performance Computing Environments
- Office of Basic Energy Sciences
- New Approaches to Extract Graphene Quantum Dots from Coals
- Simultaneous Removal of Inorganics and Organics from Fracking Water Using Supercritical Water
- Extreme Temperature Sample Environment for Materials Research using Neutron Scattering
- Office of Biological and Environmental Research
- An in-situ Device to Monitor Root-soil-microbe Interactions
- Methods for Atom Probe Tomography of Biological Materials
- Ultraviolet/Near-infrared Aerosol Absorption Monitor
- Office of Nuclear Physics
- High Efficiency RF Power Sources for Accelerator Applications
- Radiation Hardened Infrared Focal Plane Arrays
- Novel Design for High Field, Large Aperture Quadrupoles for Electron-Ion Collider
Additional information on DOE’s SBIR/STTR programs is available HERE. More information about the projects announced today is available HERE.
