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NASA Awards 382 Small-Business Contracts To 271 Firms

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Monday, December 1st, 2008

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NASA awarded contracts in response to 382 small-business proposals to meet critical research and technology needs for agency programs and projects. The awards are part of NASA's Small Business Innovation Research Program, known as SBIR, and the Small Business Technology Transfer program, known as STTR. The SBIR program selected 350 proposals for negotiation of phase 1 contracts, and the STTR program chose 32 proposals for negotiation of phase 1 contract awards. The selected SBIR projects have a combined value of…

Pentagon

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