SBIR/STTR Programs that Support Sustainable Water (Nano)technology Innovation

Agencies participating in the Water Sustainability through Nanotechnology Interest Group (water nanotechnologies community of interest), have a variety of interests in the development of water technologies to meet their mission goals, from supplying potable water to U.S. troops to developing wastewater treatment technologies to remediating contaminated sites. SBIR/STTR programs provide an important mechanism for agencies to fund R&D with commercialization potential. This web page is designed to help water (nano)technology developers locate SBIR and/or STTR funding opportunities across Federal agencies. For more information, please visit the agency SBIR websites below.

Some agencies allow Phase II application submissions from Phase I projects that were funded by a different agency, if the Phase I project is within the scope of the Phase II agency’s goals. Grants.gov provides additional information on federal funding opportunities as well as the federal grants lifecycle, policies on grants management, and profiles on grant-making agencies. A calendar with the most current solicitation cycles of participating agencies is available at Sbir.gov/solicitations.

Agency                                                                

Agency Interest in Water (Nano)technologies  

Solicitations

Awards

Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)/ National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)

NIEHS Superfund Program supports hazardous substances remediation and site characterization research

https://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/
supported/centers/srp/funding/hwaerp/
index.cfm

https://tools.niehs.nih.gov/srp/
programs/index269.cfm

Department of Commerce (DOC)/ National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Innovation in the design and application of polymer membranes to support the development of next-generation membranes

https://www.nist.gov/tpo/
small-business-innovation-research-program-sbir/resources/sbir-schedule

https://www.nist.gov/tpo/
small-business-innovation-research-program/sbir-past-awards

Department of Defense (DOD)/ Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

Supplying potable water to U.S. troops deployed or operating in low resource or contested environments

https://www.dodsbirsttr.mil/
submissions/baa-schedule/
active-baa-announcements

 

Department of Energy (DOE)

Water and wastewater facilities research and development. Water availability and security; desalination technologies

https://science.osti.gov/sbir/
Funding-Opportunities

https://science.osti.gov/sbir/
Awards

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Monitoring and treatment technologies for water reuse

https://www.epa.gov/sbir/
sbir-funding-opportunities

https://cfpub.epa.gov/ncer_abstracts/
index.cfm/fuseaction/outlinks.sbir/

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Water management systems for human spaceflight (wastewater recycling, maintaining potability of processed water, and water quality analysis and monitoring)

https://sbir.nasa.gov/solicitations

https://sbir.nasa.gov/abstract_archives

National Science Foundation (NSF)

Water treatment, resilience, and sanitation

https://seedfund.nsf.gov/apply/

https://seedfund.nsf.gov/portfolio/