March 30, 2009
Wyoming SBIR/STTR
Initiative (WSSI) Newsletter
No. 03-09
(Past Newsletter Issues)
This Wyoming SBIR/STTR Initiative (WSSI) Newsletter is available in its entirety at http://www.uwyo.edu/sbir/newsletter/nwsltr_090330.htm.
It is published by the Wyoming SBIR/STTR Initiative (WSSI). Please visit our website at www.uwyo.edu/sbir for complete program information (including links to participating federal agencies, support agencies, conferences, archives of this newsletter, etc.) Contact WSSI@uwyo.edu to be added to or removed from the Distribution List for this newsletter.
SOLICITATION COUNTDOWN
WSSI Phase 0:
due 5:00 p.m., 4/1/09; 2 days – submit to
WSSI@uwyo.edu
HHS/NIH SBIR & STTR Grants: - due 4/5/09; 6 days
DHS-DNDO SBIR Contracts: - due 4/6/09; 7 days
DOT SBIR Contracts: - due 4/15/09; 16 days
EPA SBIR Contracts: - due 5/20/09; 51 days
NSF SBIR Grants: - due 6/9/09; 71 days
DoD SBIR 2009.2 Contracts (Released
4/20/09): - due 6/17/09; 79 days
2009 SBIR/STTR SOLICITATION RELEASE SCHEDULE – All Agencies;
Courtesy of ZYN Systems at
www.zyn.com
CONTENT
1.0 Congratulations To Our March Phase 0 and
Phase 00 Award Winners
2.0 SBIR Program Gets Reprieve - Extended
to July 31, 2009
3.0 WSSI Temporarily Suspends "One Award
Per Calendar Quarter Rule"
4.0 WSSI Initiates Phase 00 Program
5.0 Senator Enzi's Inventors Conference
Scheduled for April 25 in Casper
6.0 Manufacturing-Works Sponsors Free
'Planet Eureka' Event in Cheyenne - 4/9/09
7.0 USDA 'SBIR Impact' Newsletter
Available
8.0 Tony Tjan Shares the Great
Entrepreneurs Secret - SGL!
9.0 StartWest Networking to Host Joe Keeley April 8 in Sheridan
10.0 Acknowledgements and Publication Information
1.0 Congratulations to our March phase 0 and Phase 00 award winners
Kennon
Products, Inc., Sheridan
Principal Investigator: Mark Weitz
Email:
mark@kennoncovers.com
Phase 0 Title: Advanced Ballistic Hull Forms and Materials
Phase I Target: DoD (Navy)
Square One Systems Design, Jackson
Principal Investigator: Robert Viola
Email:
viola@sqr-1.com
Phase 0 Title: An Autonomous UAV Support System
Phase I Target: DoD (Navy)
Z4 Energy
Systems LLC, Laramie
Principal Investigator:
Kevin Luke
email:
z4energy@earthlink.net
Phase 00 Title:
Wind Powered Water Pumping Incorporating Compressed Air Energy Storage
Phase II Target: USDA
2.0 SBIR Program Gets Reprieve - Extended to July 31, 2009
THE SBIR PROGRAM AUTHORIZATION EXPIRED ON SEPTEMBER 30, 2008. THE PROGRAM HAS BEEN FUNCTIONING SINCE THAT TIME UNDER A CONGRESSIONAL CONTINUING RESOLUTION (CR) THAT WAS DUE TO EXPIRE ON MARCH 20, 2009. ON MARCH 19, CONGRESS EXTENDED THE CR EXPIRATION DATE TO JULY 31, 2009. IT IS HOPED THAT THE SENATE AND HOUSE SMALL BUSINESS COMMITTEES WILL BE ABLE TO RECONCILE THEIR SUBSTANTIAL DIFFERENCES OVER THE SUBSTANCE OF THE NEW REAUTHORIZATION LEGISLATION AND GET A BILL SIGNED PRIOR TO JULY 31, 2009 - BUT DON’T BET ON IT, THERE ARE POWERFUL ANTI-SBIR FORCES LURKING!
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3.0 WSSI Temporarily suspends "one Phase 0 Award Per Calendar Quarter" Rule
Creating our own stimulus package, the
Wyoming SBIR/STTR Initiative is suspending the rule that limits participants to
one Phase 0 award per calendar quarter. This action has been precipitated by an
unexplained decline in the number of Phase 0 proposals that have been received
over the past few months. Of course, as always, all Phase 0 proposals must
respond only to specific topics contained in open federal agency SBIR/STTR
solicitations.
Intuitively, one would expect that an economic downturn would increase the level
of start-up entrepreneurial activity, a primary source of SBIR participants
seeking seed capital to fund their new enterprises. Not so, at least so far. All
suggestions and ideas on ways to stimulate Wyoming-based SBIR participation are
welcome. Send them to wssi@uwyo.edu.
4.0 WSSI Initiates PHASE 00 program
The Wyoming SBIR/STTR Initiative (WSSI) is now funding Phase II SBIR/STTR Proposal Preparation Activities under the new Phase 00 Program. The Phase 00 Proposal submission and review process follows the same rules and procedures that apply to the Phase 0 program.
5.0 Senator Enzi's Inventors Conference Scheduled for April 25 in Casper
Senator Enzi sponsors an annual Wyoming Inventors Conference, an event that has proved to very interesting and well-attended in past years. This year's conference will be held on Saturday April 25 in the Wold Physical Science Building on the Casper College campus. The all-day event is free and everyone is welcome. Contact Travis Jordan for further details. travis_jordan@enzi.senate.gov.
6.0 Manufacturing-Works Sponsors a Planet Eureka Event in Cheyenne 4/9/09
At this free event, learn how to quantify your ideas to get the attention of investors, manufacturers, retailers, experts & companies through the National Innovation Marketplace. The Planet Eureka! Business Translation Workshops teach you how to list your idea in the USA National Innovation Marketplace. In the process, it will help you not only understand the true dollar value of your invention, it helps you accelerate innovations through open source connections with/to investors, manufacturers, retailers, experts and companies. For more information, go to http://www.manufacturing-works.com/
7.0 USDA 'SBIR Impact' Newsletter Available
The USDA publishes a quarterly
newsletter, SBIR Impact. The just released latest edition contains a number of
items of interest to many in the Wyoming SBIR community, such as:
Phase I panels are complete and 2009 Phase I funding recommendations have been
made. Project directors who submitted proposals will receive word via phone or
e-mail about their status of their proposals. If you submitted a FY 2009 phase I
applications and have not been informed about the status of your proposal,
contact us at sbir@csrees.usda.gov.
Information about the recommendation status of a proposal will only be made
available to the project directors and/or authorized organizational officials.
Information about new grantees will be posted on our
abstracts
page as soon as awards are made official, around May 1. We
caution companies that have been recommended for an award about publicizing this
information before the grant is made official. Grants are not official until a
thorough administrative review of each recommended proposal is complete.
The next USDA-SBIR Request For Applications (RFA) is tentatively scheduled to be
released early June 2009, with a closing date in early September 2009, for phase
I proposals. All FY2010 proposals must be submitted electronically through
Grants.gov. Note that the registration process for submitting applications
electronically can take as much as one month to complete, and registration must
be finished prior to submitting a proposal. If you intend to submit an
application, you need not wait until the RFA is published and can begin the
registration process immediately.
To view the entire newsletter and to subscribe, go to
http://www.csrees.usda.gov/newsroom/newsletters/sbir/sbir_0309.html#program/update
8.0 Tony Tjan Shares the Great Entrepreneur's Secret - SGL!
Tony Tjan is CEO and founder of Cue Ball, a venture and early-growth equity firm investing in the information media and consumer sectors. He has come to conclude that great entrepreneurs share and need ‘SGL’. To learn more, go to http://alwayson.goingon.com:80/permalink/post/31628.
9.0 StartWest Networking to Host JOe Keeley April 8 in Sheridan
What do Michael Dell, Mark Zuckerberg and Joe Keeley have in common? They all started a successful businesses out of their Dorm Room!
Start West and Sheridan College are excited to present Joe Keeley, young entrepreneur, speaker and founder of the national franchise brand College Nannies & Tutors, to speak about his experience of starting a multi-million dollar franchise brand from his dorm room in college! If you have ever thought of starting your own business, this event is not to be missed! Join us Wednesday, April 8 from 5:30-7:00 pm at the Holiday Inn for "The Path to Entrepreneur Success."
For membership information please contact Heidi Peterson: (307) 766-6283 or hpeters4@uwyo.edu
10.0 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND PUBLICATION INFORMATION
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This newsletter is published monthly as part of the Wyoming SBIR/STTR Initiative
(WSSI). The mission of the Initiative is to increase the number of federal Small
Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer
(STTR) Program awards to Wyoming. The Wyoming Business Council (WBC) funds the
initiative which is administered by the University of Wyoming Research Office.
Please contact Gene Watson ewatson@wyoming.com with your comments.
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