• NASA
• NSF
• SBA

• US DOD
• Air Force
• Army
• BMDO
• DARPA
• DTIC
• Navy
• SOAC

• USDA
• US DOC: NIST and NOAA
• US ED

• US DOE
• US EPA
• US HHS: NIH
• US DOT

Washington, DC: In our show about the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR), we found programs and agencies of the government that champion small business. This listing is in addition to our references to the SBA and the work of their Office of Advocacy, ProNet and the insights of the many state's Small Business Person of the Year who were the MasterClass teachers on Small Business School and Small Business 2000.

We encourage all small business owners with special technical expertise to see if they meet the requirements of any of these SBIR programs.

There are the ten agencies involved with the SBIR program:

1. National Aeronautics and Space Administration: http://sbir.nasa.gov
2. National Science Foundation: http://www.eng.nsf.gov/sbir/contacts.htm
3. US Departments of Agriculture: http://www.reeusda.gov/sbir/
4. US Department of Commerce: http://www.rdc.noaa.gov/~amd/sbir.html
   • National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST): http://patapsco.nist.gov/ts_sbir/
5. Department of Defense: http://www.acq.osd.mil/sadbu/sbir/
   • Air Force: http://www.afrl.af.mil/sbir/index.htm
   • Army:http://www.aro.army.mil/arowash/rt/sbir.htm
   • Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO)
     SBIR Program: http://www.winbmdo.com/
   • Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
     SBIR Program Home Page: http://www.darpa.mil/sbir/
   • Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC): http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/sbir/
   • Special Operations Acquisition Center (SOAC): http://soal.socom.mil/
   • Navy: http://www.navysbir.brtrc.com/
6. US Department of Education: http://www.ed.gov/offices/OERI/SBIR/
7. US Department of Energy: http://sbir.er.doe.gov/sbir/
8. Health and Human Services: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/sbir.htm
9. US Department of Transportation: http://www.volpe.dot.gov/sbir/
10. US Environmental Protection Agency: http://es.epa.gov/ncerqa/sbir/

• SBA SBIR Key Contacts for each of these agencies: http://www.sba.gov/sbir/indexcontacts-reps.html
  (very good list and consistently updated)

• CONTACT:
  Robert L. Norwood, PhD
  Director, Commercial Technology
  Office of Aero-Space Technology
  National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  300 E Street SW
  Washington, DC 20546
  Tel: 202-358-2320 Fax: 202-358-3876
  Email: rnorwood@hq.nasa.gov
  URL:http://www.nasasolutions.gov