Guidance for Small Business Impacted by Coronavirus
The impacts on small business and the country from Coronavirus, is far reaching and very dynamic. Frequent changes are being made to policies and programs to address these challenges, and these include SBIR/STTR and doing business with the federal government.
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DoD FY-21.1 SBIR Broad Agency Announcement (BAA)
Opened 01/14/21 Closes 02/18/21
The DoD issued its 21.1 SBIR BAA pre-release on December 8, 2020, which opened to receive proposals on January 14, 2021, and closes February 18, 2021.
The BAA is inclusive of 100 standard Navy SBIR topics, and 2 Direct to Phase II topics from 7 of the Navy's SYSCOMs.
New DoD Submission Requirements have been added this year.
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Effective January 13, 2021, the following requirements will be in place for all SBIR and STTR proposal submissions. Details on these requirements can be found section 5.0 of the 21.1 SBIR and 21.A STTR BAAs.
- Foreign Disclosure Requirement
- Contractor Certification Regarding Provision of Prohibited Video Surveillance and Telecommunications Services and Equipment
- Company Commercialization Report (Volume 4)
- Fraud, Waste and Abuse Training (Volume 6)
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Direct Contact with topic authors is permitted during the pre-release period (Dec 8, 2020 to January 13, 2021).
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Proposing firms have an opportunity to directly contact the Technical Point of Contact (TPOC) to ask technical questions about the specific BAA topic. Once DoD begins accepting proposals on January 14, 2021 no further direct contact between proposers and topic authors is allowed unless the Topic Author is responding to a question submitted during the Pre-release period.
SITIS Q&A System: After the pre-release period, proposers may submit written questions through SITIS (SBIR/STTR Interactive Topic Information System) at www.dodsbirsttr.mil/topics-app/, login and follow instructions. In SITIS, the questioner and respondent remain anonymous but all questions and answers are posted for general viewing. Topic Q&A will close to new questions on February 4, 2021 at 12:00 p.m. ET
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Official DoD and Navy 21.1 BAA instructions, registration and submission guidance are available at the following websites:
DoD FY-21.A STTR Broad Agency Announcement (BAA)
Opened 01/14/21 Closes 02/18/21
The DoD issued its 21.A STTR BAA pre-release on December 8, 2020, which opened to receive proposals on January 14, 2021, and closes February 18, 2021.
The BAA is inclusive of 18 STTR topics from 4 of the Navy's SYSCOMs.
New DoD Submission Requirements have been added this year.
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Effective January 13, 2021, the following requirements will be in place for all SBIR and STTR proposal submissions. Details on these requirements can be found section 5.0 of the 21.1 SBIR and 21.A STTR BAAs.
- Foreign Disclosure Requirement
- Contractor Certification Regarding Provision of Prohibited Video Surveillance and Telecommunications Services and Equipment
- Company Commercialization Report (Volume 4)
- Fraud, Waste and Abuse Training (Volume 6)
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Direct Contact with topic authors is permitted during the pre-release period (Dec 8, 2020 to January 13, 2021).
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Proposing firms have an opportunity to directly contact the Technical Point of Contact (TPOC) to ask technical questions about the specific BAA topic. Once DoD begins accepting proposals on January 14, 2021 no further direct contact between proposers and topic authors is allowed unless the Topic Author is responding to a question submitted during the Pre-release period.
SITIS Q&A System: After the pre-release period, proposers may submit written questions through SITIS (SBIR/STTR Interactive Topic Information System) at www.dodsbirsttr.mil/topics-app/, login and follow instructions. In SITIS, the questioner and respondent remain anonymous but all questions and answers are posted for general viewing. Topic Q&A will close to new questions on February 4, 2021 at 12:00 p.m. ET
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Official DoD and Navy 21.1 BAA instructions, registration and submission guidance are available at the following websites:
Posting of Navy FY-20.3 SBIR Selections
In order to keep small businesses informed about the Navy's 20.3 proposal selection status, the Navy posts a list of SBIR/STTR "Selectees" as they are chosen. [View List]
Navy SBIR/STTR Conquering the Challenge
This Navy video "Navy SBIR/STTR Conquering the Challenge" highlights how the Navy's SBIR/STTR programs are evolving to more rapidly meet the challenges to maintain our decisive edge.
Navy Strengthens Defense Industrial Base
with New Small Business Funding Opportunity
To support the national response to the corona virus (COVID-19) pandemic, the Department of the Navy (DoN) must leverage and sustain its research-and-development industrial base and attract new
small business partners.
The Navy and Marine Corps are doing so by harnessing the DoN's agile Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs both located at the
Office of Naval Research (ONR). The programs announced today $30 million in rapid-funding opportunities through a new Broad Agency Announcement (BAA), which is a request for scientific or research proposals.
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During this national emergency, the Naval Research Enterprise must engage all activities to ensure we accomplish our current workload, make sure vital naval partners survive current economic conditions, and bring in new partners,
" said DoN SBIR/STTR Director Bob Smith. "I'm proud the DoN SBIR/STTR programs are taking bold steps to maintain the defense industrial base through accelerated funding awards."
The new BAA, titled DoN SBIR FY20.4, will close on May 28. It seeks proposals from innovative small businesses and startups for high-impact, scalable technologies that address both naval requirements and the
needs of the commercial market. Areas of interest to the Navy and Marine Corps include:
- Modernization and sustainment (maintenance and repair of military assets)
- Digital logistics (security, analysis, management and flow of digital information and data)
- Deployable manufacturability (rapid, on-demand manufacturing of deployable systems supporting diverse payloads and missions)
- Resilient communications (expanded communications capabilities for fast, coordinated response during a global crisis)
BAA FY20.4 is just one facet of a broader DoN SBIR/STTR effort to sustain the defense industrial base during the COVID-19 response, by awarding more than $250 million in funding over the next 90 days.
SBIR provides the Navy and Marine Corps with innovative advances in technology created by small businesses while STTR transitions products developed by both small businesses and research institutions.
Navy SBIR/STTR and NavalX
In addition to promoting BAAs like FY20.4, the DoN SBIR/STTR programs also look to strengthen new approaches, like serving as technology enablers for the Naval Expeditions (NavalX) Agility Office created by the Hon. James Geurts, assistant secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition.
NavalX gives Sailors, Marines and DoN civilians tools to put good ideas into action. This enables naval organizations like ONR and SBIR/STTR to better connect warfighters with experts and small businesses.
SBIR/STTR also provides expertise at NavalX's multiple Tech Bridge locations nationwide.
A partnership between ONR, NavalX, the Navy's Technology Transfer Program Office, and all naval systems commands, Tech Bridges are regional innovation hubs where warfare centers, government, academia and industry can team up and work together on technology research, evaluation and commercialization as well as economic and workforce development.
Learn more about the DoN SBIR/STTR programs and BAA FY20.4 at https://www.navysbir.com.
See www.onr.navy.mil/en/Media-Center/Press-Releases/2020/Navy-Strengthens-Defense-Industrial-Base-with-New-SBIR-STTR-BAA
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Navy FST Event Goes Virtual
The Navy Forum for SBIR/STTR Transition (Navy FST) event that was scheduled to take place at the now canceled Sea Air Space (SAS) 2020 conference, has gone virtual and is available for you starting Monday, April 6, 2020 at:
navyfst.com/events/fst-at-sas2020/
Navy FST offers opportunities to connect and learn more about the Phase II technologies ready for transition. The global theater of tech advancement hasn't stopped, and the Navy FST is committed to continuing to facilitate connections between small businesses and warfighters-safely!
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The Navy FST has adapted to provide consistent government and prime acquisition professionals access to transitioning technology during the COVID-19 pandemic via online Tech Talks.
The planned Tech Talks will be posted online by 6 April on the Virtual FST Marketplace: navyfst.com/events/fst-at-sas2020. After viewing the Tech Talks, Navy FST encourages you to contact the small business directly to learn more.
All details are available at: navyfst.com/events/fst-at-sas2020/
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This new and important study quantifies the DoD SBIR/STTR Program's overall contribution to the nation's economy and defense mission. It examines the economic outcomes and impacts up to 2018 from
DoD SBIR/STTR Phase II contracts initiated during the 1995-2012 fiscal year (FY) period, providing definitive answers to the question:
What resulted from the DoD's investment of $14.4 billion in small business R&D funding provided to companies nationwide via 16,959 separate SBIR/STTR Phase II contracts?
In all, this study presents the economic outcomes of 16,516 of the 16,959 DoD SBIR/STTR contracts--over 97 percent.
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