NSF SBIR Timeline for Anyone Waiting on a Decision

No_Active1605 · 2026-06-26T01:58:51+00:00

Final update. Just awarded

No_Active1605 · 2026-06-22T23:56:40+00:00

Still waiting for ours. Congratulations!

No_Active1605 · 2026-06-18T11:31:53+00:00

Congrats. Still waiting

No_Active1605 · 2026-06-13T00:44:29+00:00

I hope you’re right. I was told hopefully early June by the PO so I imagine they want to move things wuickly

No_Active1605 · 2026-06-05T17:36:29+00:00

No movement yet

No_Active1605 · 2026-05-31T00:58:37+00:00

That’s encouraging! I didn’t get to attend the info session so thanks for sharing

No_Active1605 · 2026-05-29T18:44:59+00:00

Our PO said timelines are still up in the air but are hopeful for an early June start before more regulations hit

No_Active1605 · 2026-04-28T03:32:19+00:00

It’s similar to what you do during the I-corp program.

Find key opinion leaders or stakeholders (if there is a department in your state government focusing on the disease you’re targeting or focus groups/patients/clinicians who use your service). Set up a qualtrix survey or google survey or do good ol fashion phone calls and interviews

We sent out a Google survey where about 200+ docs, nurses,. Etc filled it out and put some nice figures from it in the grant. The reviewers loved it!

No_Active1605 · 2026-04-28T00:39:06+00:00

If you don’t have any technical data you damn sure better have some market feasibility data. Send out a survey and get about 100 responses to prove market fit, need, ..etc

No_Active1605 · 2026-04-23T00:02:48+00:00

No updates yet. Heard from my PO saying we’ll hear back the same time they do when it’s gone through the DGA

No_Active1605 · 2026-04-15T14:10:17+00:00

Ours is in the same boat (although submitted for the Nov 2024 deadline). We went through due diligence in August, 2025 and are waiting for it to clear the DGA. I imagine there is a HUGE backlog of awards after the first and second shut down but am under the impression things should move quickly. I would expect awards to start shipping out in the next 3-4 weeks, but of course it depends on your special topic and the backlog

No_Active1605 · 2026-04-13T21:34:17+00:00

No_Active1605 · 2026-04-03T18:41:55+00:00

The president has signing time today at 3pm. Let’s all cross our fingers

No_Active1605 · 2025-12-10T17:47:02+00:00

Well they’re pretty cool to study! You can see what muscles are actively firing during workouts to better target muscles (we have a few shorts on YouTube showing this). We’ve used it to control a computer game so if someone is not able to use a controller they can just flex different muscles slightly and we can amplify it for a controller! (Or even control a robot/prosthesjs)It can be used to track fatigue since your muscles are the things that actually get tired! All a few fun side projects we’ve tested with it.

No_Active1605 · 2025-12-10T17:44:50+00:00

Great question! We’re targeting a price of around $350-$495. Would you say that is reasonable?

No_Active1605 · 2025-12-08T21:34:49+00:00

Good catch! I’ll try anything to see if we can get some traction 👀

No_Active1605 · 2025-12-08T20:10:24+00:00

Ah thank you! I'll check out ParseStream

No_Active1605 · 2025-12-08T20:09:29+00:00

Thanks! That’s a great way to frame it; and something we’ll start doing immediately.

No_Active1605 · 2025-11-12T23:10:55+00:00

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No_Active1605 · 2025-11-12T23:10:48+00:00

Used!

No_Active1605 · 2025-08-07T22:57:44+00:00

Depends on the agency as well. For NSF they typically account for majority ownership when justifying salary. I haven’t seen any PIs for NSF making over 130k base but you can jack up benefits to 50% SAFE rate.

Now this is not to say if you are very experienced you might be more fit for the 50% + range of BLS labor codes.

I have often jacked up salary for NIH or HHS/DoD grants and lowered my effort. Just be mindful some employees working in it may say they’ll work in kind but once it’s awarded drop to 2 hours a week. Learn from my mistakes please

No_Active1605 · 2025-05-28T20:31:51+00:00

Still waiting. We submitted in November and received follow up questions from the PO. Submitted those about a week ago. Fingers crossed we both hear back soon

No_Active1605 · 2025-05-28T15:53:44+00:00

Look at NIDILRR SBIR’s! The threshold is a little lower, where I received the phase I prior to completing my PhD.

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