The federal government has an important role, including through the SBIR and the Small Business Technology Transfer programs, in helping advance innovation, including innovation in manufacturing.
This year the US Army awarded AlwaysReady a $100,000 six-month contract under its Small Business Technology Transfer Program (STTR) for research on a long life, low power, multi-cell battery to power computer memory chips that need to be activated for mission critical data up to 30 years from now.
is being awarded a not-to-exceed $10,500,000 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for a Phase III Small Business Technology Transfer Program contract under Topic N04-T004, entitled Sonobuoy Tube Launched UAV.
Two of the grants have been awarded under the Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR) and one grant under the Small Business Technology Transfer Program (STTR).
The award was granted under the Small Business Technology Transfer Program (NIH-STTR) for $100,000 to gather preliminary data to develop Samaritan Pharmaceutical's Alzheimer's drug which is believed to bind the Sigma-1 receptor and also has properties to inhibit acetylcholinesterase (AchE).
OTCBB:SPHC) and Samaritan Research Labs, Georgetown University announced today that, Samaritan and Georgetown University, together, were awarded a National Institute of Health, Small Business Technology Transfer Program (NIH-STTR) grant, of $188,000, for its innovative idea to develop a simple blood test to predict Alzheimer's disease.
