ATP To Schedule Competition For New Technology R&D Awards
Dateline NIST Washington: March 18, 2007The NIST Advanced Technology Program (ATP) will conduct a new competition this fiscal year for cost-shared awards to support high-risk industrial R&D.
The ATP provides partial support to single companies or to industry-led joint ventures to accelerate the development of innovative technologies for broad national benefit through partnership with the private sector. ATP projects are selected in a competitive, peer-reviewed process.
Further details will be available when the competition is formally announced in the Federal Register this spring. Pproposals will not be accepted before that time. Notices will also be posted to www.atp.nist.gov and www.grants.gov. These notices will provide information about the specific ATP competition, including funding availability, selection criteria, guidelines for submitting proposals, proposal deadlines, dates and locations of Proposers Conferences, etc.
Additionally, all those on the ATP mailing list will receive a competition announcement and the ATP Proposal Preparation Kit.
Those interested may register for the ATP mailing list at http://www.atp.nist.gov/atp/atpform.htm.
Media Contact: Gail Porter, gail.porter@nist.gov, (301) 975-3392
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This announcement courtesy of NMIOA
New Mexico Optics Industry Association
email: margaret@nmoia.org
phone: 505.450.9947
