The next DOD BAA is just around the corner:
Tips on Writing an Effective Executive Summary
Topics for the Department of Defense’s SBIR 2020.1 and STTR 2020.A Broad Area Announcement will be pre-released on December 10. If your company is a interested in submitting a proposal, your first step is to send an Executive Summary of your project to the appropriate Technical Point of Contact (TPOC). You can find contact information for the relevant TPOC at the end of each topic and subtopic.
Email them directly and ask:
- Does my innovation match the goals of DOD for this topic? If not, ask if they are aware of other topics within DOD they may suggest?
- If your topic is of interest, ask: Read on
Key dates:
Pre-release: December 10, 2019
Announcement opens: January 14, 2020
Announcement closes: February 12, 2020, 8pm EDT
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Explaining Your NIH Project Budget: The Budget Justification
Your budget spreadsheet tells your company’s story in numbers, but it is only half of the story. The reviewers need to see why you are spending money on the things in your budget, and it is your Budget Justification that explains what the numbers mean.
Here are the most important things to remember are:
- This is the only place in the proposal that really tells the reviewers who is doing what, and where they are doing it. Your Budget Justification is a valuable overview of the way the project is set up. It helps answer many questions reviewers have about your company.
- The Budget Justification is where you explain in narrative detail how you will spend NIH’s money. This is not where you justify the project and talk about how great it is. Save that for the Research Strategy. Read on
Solicitation closes: January 5, 2020
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Grant and Contract Management:
A Life Changer
From the moment you receive the notice of award or contract, like a first-time parent, life changes for you. From that point forward your focus now turns to
managing your grant.
Also like that of a new parent, this joyful, new circumstance entails new duties. It requires being aware of how the grant/contract dollars are going to be spent and ensuring that those expenditures are documented properly. Additionally, the grant manager must make sure that everyone in the organization is documenting his/her time and effort for the work performed, something they may not have been doing previously.
The notification of an SBIR/STTR award will include:
Read on
Explore working with BBCetc on grant/contract management
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DOE Phase I Release 2 Topics are Out
DOE has issued topics for the FY 2020 SBIR/STTR Phase I Release 2 Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA). The following DOE program offices are participating in this (FOA):
- Office of Cyber Security, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER)
- Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation (NNSA)
- Office of Electricity (OE)
- Office of Environmental Management (EM)
- Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
- Office of Fossil Energy (FE)
- Office of Fusion Energy Sciences (FES)
- Office of High Energy Physics (HEP)
- Office of Nuclear Energy (NE)
Important Dates
- Topics issued: November 12, 2019
- Funding Opportunity Announcement Issued: Monday, December 16, 2019
- Letter of Intent Due Date: Monday, January 6, 2020
- Application Due Date: Monday, February 24, 2020
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Solicitations
Health & Human Services-NIH/CDC/FDA Omnibus
Clinical Trials not allowed:
Clinical Trials required:
Standard close dates: Jan. 5 Apr. 5, Sept. 5
Nat'l. Science Foundation
Submission windows:
4-Mar '19 - 13-Jun '19
14-Jun '19 - 12-Dec '19
Dept. of Defense
Pre-releases Dec. 10; opens Jan. 14, 2020; closes Feb. 12, 2020
Dept. of Energy
Topic release Nov. 12; FOA issued Dec. 16; LOI's due Jan. 6, 2020, closes Feb. 24, 2020
Dept. of Homeland Security
Pre-released through Dec. 17; Other dates TBA.
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Upcoming Training and Events
SBIR/STTR Proposal Prep for DOD
Dec. 5 - Southfield, MI
Understanding DOD's SBIR/STTR Program
December 11 - Toledo, OH
SBIR/STTR Proposal Prep for NIH
January 16 - Plymouth, MI
SBIR/STTR 101: Introduction & Overview
January 22 - Ann Arbor
SBIR/STTR Proposal Preparation Training
January 22-23 - St. Louis, MO
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SBIR/STTR Pursuit Webinars
BBCetc's
SBIR/STTR Pursuit Recorded Webinar Library which provides a variety of SBIR/STTR topics, and now includes a series of short (10-15-min.) single-topics webinars call Tips at a Clip. Our recordings are updated regularly to keep them current. View our selection on our
website or our
YouTube channel.
This month's suggestion:
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bout BBCetc
BBC Entrepreneurial Training & Consulting, LLC (BBCetc) works with technology-based entrepreneurs and companies across the U.S. on strategies to advance their R&D efforts to commercialization. The BBCetc team is nationally recognized for its success in helping clients secure federal funding through the SBIR and STTR programs. BBCetc services include research grant assistance, SBIR/STTR training and proposal development assistance, and grants and contract management.
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