SBIR/STTR Phase I & II Deadlines

The NSF STTR program focuses on transforming scientific discovery into products and services with commercial potential and/or societal benefit. Unlike fundamental or basic research activities that focus on scientific and engineering discovery itself, the NSF STTR program supports the creation of opportunities to move fundamental science and engineering out of the lab and into the market or other use at scale, or startups and small businesses representing “deep technology ventures.”

FY 2022 SBIR/STTR Phase I and Phase II opened on 1/11/2022. Project Pitches are always accepted. The next submission window close dates are 6/30/2022 and 10/26/2022.

The SBIR program is intended to support scientific excellence and technological innovation that is also moving from the lab to the market. By investing federal research and development funds into startups and small businesses, NSF hopes to build a strong national economy and stimulate the creation of novel products, services, and solutions in the private sector; strengthen the role of small business in meeting federal research and development needs; increase the commercial application of federally supported research results; and develop and increase the US workforce, especially by fostering and encouraging participation by socially and economically disadvantaged and women-owned small businesses.

View the Program Solicitation.