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1999 NASA STTR Selections Announced

August 27, 1999

NASA has named 20 companies from 13 states as recipients of the agency’s 1999 Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program Phase I solicitation. NASA received 82 proposals from 59 companies in this year’s competition.



Each selected project will receive a fixed-price, one-year contract with NASA for up to $100,000. Successful Phase I recipients may compete for two-year Phase II contracts of up to $500,000 next year.



All STTR awards involve partnerships between the selected companies and research institutions. While the small business is the recipient of the award, a minimum of 30 percent of the research must be completed at the research institution, and the small business must perform at least 40 percent.



The accompanying table presents the state-by-state awards-to-proposals statistics and a breakdown of home state for each of the selected companies and their research partners. Eight of the NASA awards involve small businesses and research institutions from different states.



More information on the NASA STTR program, including abstracts of the selected projects, can be found on the World Wide Web at http://sbir.nasa.gov