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Grants

NASA SBIR/STTR Program

Status

Usually opens in January and May

Projected from the months this call usually opens — not a date the funder has confirmed.

Closed

Projected from the pattern of past calls — confirm on the funder's page before planning around it.

Amount
$150,000

Phase I awards up to about $150,000 for 6-13 months; Phase II up to about $850,000 over 24 months, with Phase II-Extended, Sequential and CCRPP follow-ons that require external matching investment.

Funder

U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration

public · national

Deadline: One call a year — For Program Year 2026 NASA moved from a single annual solicitation to a Broad Agency Announcement with phased appendices. Phase I under the 2026-2027 BAA closed 21 May 2026 with selections announced August 2026.

Your odds
Not published

This funder does not publish a success rate. We rank it using the rate observed across similar programmes and label it as an estimate rather than implying we know.

Effort
major

Major bid — written case, budget, possibly partners.

Who can apply

US for-profit small business with 500 or fewer employees; the principal investigator must be primarily employed by the firm for SBIR.

How to apply

  1. Register in SAM.gov and the NASA EHB (Electronic Handbook)
  2. Review the current BAA appendix and subtopic list
  3. Submit the proposal through the NASA SBIR/STTR EHB by the appendix deadline

What you will need

Related reading: How grant deadlines actually work · The EU SME definition (Recommendation 2003/361) · SBIR vs STTR: what actually differs

Apply on the funder's site

Source. https://www.nasa.gov/sbir_sttr/

"part of America's Seed Fund, the nation's largest source of early-stage non-dilutive funding for innovative technologies"

Verified on 14 August 2026

Source: www.nasa.gov

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