Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR)

What's New

See our brand new DOE SBIR/STTR Programs Overview video

FY21 Phase II Release 2 Funding Opportunity

FY21 Phase I Release 2 Funding Opportunity

SBIR News and Events

See our updated Outreach Calendar

NIST is looking for feedback from small business concerns regarding the Bayh-Dole Notice of Proposed Rulemaking published in the Federal Register.

Public comments are due by April 5th.

Evaluation of the DOE SBIR/STTR Programs

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine released its report on the DOE SBIR/STTR Programs in April 2020.

231 Small Business Grants Supporting Innovation

DOE Announces $32 Million for Small Business Research and Development Grants.

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What is SBIR and STTR?

If you are new to DOE SBIR/STTR, please get started by watching our two minute Programs Overview Video.

The SBIR and STTR programs are U.S. Government programs, intended to help certain small businesses conduct R&D. At DOE, funding takes the form of grants. Projects must have the potential for commercialization and meet specific DOE mission-specific R&D needs.

DOE offers more than sixty technical topics and 250 subtopics, spanning research areas that support the DOE mission in:

Energy Production
Energy Use
Fundamental Energy Sciences
Environmental Management, and
Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation

New to the DOE SBIR & STTR Programs?

We strongly encourage all to start by watching the Overview Webinar. The overview is about 1 hour and provides an in-depth understanding of the purpose of the programs, the technology areas covered, and the grant application process. To just view the presentation slides, click here (11.2MB) and in PDF here (3.10MB).

Interested in currently available funding opportunities?

The DOE SBIR/STTR Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOA) are listed on our Funding Opportunities page. To learn about the technology areas with available DOE SBIR/STTR funding, view either the Topics documents or webinars in the Funding Opportunity Announcements FOA table.

To learn about the latest grant application requirements, please view the FOA. Please note that the DOE SBIR/STTR Programs have a mandatory Letter of Intent requirement -- you must submit a Letter of Intent according to the FOA requirements to be eligible to submit a full application.