NIST/DoC Technology Innovation Grant for High-Risk R&D

TIP is holding 4 public meetings (Proposers Conferences) to provide general information regarding TIP, to offer guidance on preparing proposals, and to answer questions. The Proposers’ Conferences will be held as follows:

April 8, 2009, 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. Eastern Time: NIST Red Auditorium, 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899, (301-975-8910). Pre-registration is required by 5 p.m. Eastern Time on April 6, 2009 for the Proposers’ Conference being held at NIST Gaithersburg, MD. Due to increased security at NIST, NO on-site registrations will be accepted and all attendees MUST be pre-registered. Photo identification must be presented at the NIST main gate to be admitted to the April 8, 2009 Conference. Attendees must wear their Conference badge at all times while on the NIST campus. Electronic Registration at: https://rproxy.nist.gov/CRS/ .

April 13, 2009, 1 p.m. – 5 p.m. Eastern Time: Marriott Boston Cambridge, Two Cambridge Center, 50 Broadway, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02142, (617-494-6600) Pre-registration is not required.

April 15, 2009, 1 p.m. – 5 p.m. Eastern Time: Detroit Marriott at the Renaissance Center, 400 Renaissance Center, Detroit, Michigan, 48243, (313-568-8000) Pre-registration is not required.

April 17, 2009, 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. Pacific Time: San Jose Marriott, 301 S. Market St., San Jose, California, 95113, (408-280-1300) Pre-registration is not required.

The America Creating Opportunities to Meaningfully Promote Excellence in Technology, Education, and Science (COMPETES) Act, Pub. L. 110-69 (August 9, 2007), 15 U.S.C.A. §278n (2008), was enacted to invest in innovation through research and development and to improve the competitiveness of the United States. Section 3012 of the COMPETES Act established TIP for the purpose of assisting United States businesses and institutions of higher education or other organizations, such as national laboratories and nonprofit research institutions, to support, promote, and accelerate innovation in the United States through high-risk, high-reward research in areas of critical national need. High-risk, high-reward research is research that has the potential for yielding transformational results with far-ranging or wide-ranging implications; addresses areas of critical national need that support, promote, and accelerate innovation in the United States and is within NIST’s areas of technical competence; and is too novel or spans too diverse a range of disciplines to fare well in the traditional peer review process. The TIP implementing regulations are published at 15 C.F.R. Part 296, and included in the TIP Proposal Preparation Kit as Appendix B.

TIP is soliciting proposals under this fiscal year 2009 competition in two areas of critical national need entitled “Civil Infrastructure” and “Manufacturing” as described in the Full Announcement.