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NASA News
National Aeronautics and Space Administration

John C. Stennis Space Center
Stennis Space Center, MS 39529-6000 STS-03-181
(228) 688-3341 Dec. 1, 2003
Paul Foerman FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NASA News Chief
(228) 688-3341

NASA SELECTS SMALL BUSINESS RESEARCH PROPOSALS

HANCOCK COUNTY, Miss. — NASA has selected 310 Small Business Innovation Research
(SBIR) and 45 Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) research proposals for Phase 1 contract
negotiations, including 12 SBIR and two STTR proposals from NASA's Technology Development
and Transfer Office at Stennis Space Center (SSC).
The SBIR contracts will be awarded to 246 small high-technology firms in 38 states. The
STTR contracts will be awarded to 40 small high-technology firms in 20 states. Funding for the
selected projects may total approximately $26 million.
The goals of the NASA SBIR program are to stimulate technological innovation; increase the
use of small businesses, including women-owned and disadvantaged firms, to meet federal research
and development needs; and increase private sector commercialization of innovations derived from
federally funded research.
The firms awarded SBIR contracts through SSC and their projects a
* Charles River Analytics Inc., Cambridge, Mass., for visualizing meta-information in
remotely sensed Earth science data;
* General Kinetics LLC, Lake Forest, Calif., high-test peroxide high-sealing conical seal;
* Geospatial Insights Inc., SSC, ocean surface current vectors from MODIS Terra/Aqua sea
surface temperature image pairs;
* Geospatial Research Innovation Design, Corpus Christi, Texas, Mobile Online Intelligent
Decision Support System;
* Materials Modification Inc., Fairfax, Va., nanostructured material for accurate and fast-
tracking of cryogenic temperatures;
* Mobitrum Corp., Rockville, Md., wireless sensor portal technology;
* Optimal Solutions Software LLC, Idaho Falls, Idaho, automated computational fluid
dynamics design with shape optimization;
* Orbital Technologies Corp., Madison, Wis., multi-use non-intrusive flow characterization
system;
* PERL Research LLC, Huntsville, Ala., data reduction and rapid analysis of hyperspectral
data sets;
* Plumetech, Huntsville, Ala., engine test stand design constraints expert system;
* Positive Systems Inc., Whitefish, Mont., precise automated image coregistration tools to
enable pixel-level change detection; and
* Utopiacompression Corp., Los Angeles, Calif., intelligent multi-resolution 3-D modeling,
compression, registration, fusion and recognition.


The goals of the NASA STTR program are similar to the SBIR program with the distinction
that the STTR program requires a collaborative research effort between a small business and a
research institution.
STTR companies with SSC, their research institutions and projects a
* Luna Innovations Inc. of Blacksburg, Va., University of Alabama, Huntsville, for high-
frequency flush mounted miniature liquid oxygen fiber-optic pressure sensor and
* Mississippi Ethanol LLC of Winona, Miss., Mississippi State University, for real time,
non-intrusive detection of liquid nitrogen in liquid oxygen at high pressure and high flow.
U.S.-owned small business concerns submitted 2,696 SBIR and 179 STTR proposals.
Selected proposals may receive up to $70,000 for an SBIR and up to $100,000 for an STTR contract.
Upon successful completion of Phase 1, the small business may submit a Phase 2 proposal. Phase 2
continues development of the most promising Phase 1 projects. Selection criteria include: technical
merit and innovation, Phase 1 results, value to NASA, commercial potential, and company
capabilities. Phase 2 contracts are funded up to $600,000 for a performance period of up to two
years.
The NASA SBIR/STTR Program Management Office, located at the Goddard Space Flight
Center, Greenbelt, Md., manages the program for NASA's Office of Aerospace Technology,
Washington. Individual SBIR and STTR projects are managed by NASA's 10 centers, including SSC.
A list of the selected companies is available on the Internet at http://sbir.nasa.gov.

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