Opportunities for Industry
Below are potential business opportunities that the MVHPC team has located that are relevant to the commercial high performance vehicle industry. These opportunities will additionally be posted on the MVHPC LinkedIn page.
Industry Opportunities
Small Business Innovation Research/Small Business Technology Transfer
The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program is a United States Government program, coordinated by the Small Business Administration, in which 2.5 percent of the total extramural research budgets of all federal agencies with extramural research budgets in excess of $100 million are reserved for contracts or grants to small businesses. Annually, the SBIR budget represents more than $1 billion in research funds. Over half the awards are to firms with fewer than 25 people and a third to firms of fewer than 10. A fifth are minority or women-owned businesses. Historically, a quarter of the companies are first-time winners.
Congress established the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program in 1992. It is similar in structure to SBIR and funds cooperative research and development projects with small businesses in partnership with not-for profit research institutions (such as universities) to move research to the marketplace.
FedBizOpps
Federal Business Opportunities is the listing of all the opportunities for doing business with the US government. Searchable by many different criteria, it allows businesses interested in working with the federal government to discover projects they can bid on.
Enterprise Market Investigation Process
The joint ground systems Enterprise Market Investigation Process (EMIP) is a multi-phased and ongoing type of market research sponsored by the Program Executive Office Combat Support & Combat Service Support. It involves conducting periodic technology demonstrations that educate government representatives in advanced technologies at the component or subsystem (not end item) level. EMIP provides an opportunity for vendors to identify to the government industry's investments in advanced technologies for potential insertion into and improvement of Army and Marine Corps ground systems managed by the Program Executive Office Combat Support & Combat Service Support (PEO CS&CSS), the PEO Ground Combat Systems (GCS), the United States Marine Corps' PEO Land Systems (LS), and the USMC's Program Manager Light Armored Vehicles (PM LAV) .
DoD 2012 STTR Solicitations Pre-Released
The first Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) solicitations of 2012 have been pre-released. Click here for more information on the Department of Defense's solicitations. Your company will have until March 28, 2012 to submit a proposal for a solicitation.
After a quick run through on the STTR solicitations, we have come across three that we think are relevant to the motorsports community (there may be more, so check the above link for the full list) and they are listed below.
- Ultra-High-Strength Carbon Nanotube Based Fibers
- Large Format Rapid Charge and Discharge Batteries
- Fuel Tank Self-sealing Protection
DoD SBIR/STTR Upcoming Release Schedule
Below is the schedule of upcoming Department of Defense Small Business Innovation Research / Small Business Technology Transfer solicitations. Please contact the points of contact for each solicitation for additional information and insight. We will post links to open SBIR/STTR soliciations on our website and LinkedIn group as we find them.
Visit this website to review the current solicitations.
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Program |
Release Dates |
Accepts Proposals |
Closing Dates |
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26 Jan 2012 |
27 Feb 2012 |
28 Mar 2012 |
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24 Apr 2012 |
24 May 2012 |
27 Jun 2012 |
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26 Jul 2012 |
27 Aug 2012 |
26 Sep 2012 |
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26 Jul 2012 |
27 Aug 2012 |
26 Sep 2012 |
TARDEC Ground Vehicle Gateway
The US Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC) has a Ground Vehicle Gateway (GVG) to assist in identifying new technologies. The Gateway is an online portal that will help forward inquiries or proposals directly to NAC or TARDEC researchers. The GVG will log, track and evaluate ideas, facilitating dialogue and prospective partnerships with industry, academia and other government organizations that submit proposals.
Visit the Ground Vehicle Gateway to submit your ground vehicle systems technology concepts, ideas and innovations to TARDEC today.