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• Must be a small business that is not a subsidiary of a large company (over 500 employees).
  
• The business must be organized for profit (cannot be a non-profit organization).
  
• Must be at least 51% owned by U.S. citizens or U.S. resident aliens.
  
• The business must be located in the U.S.
  
• The principal investigator's (PI) primary employer must be the small business (for STTR the PI can be employed by a research institution that is partnering with the company).
  
• The company and/or PI must have creditable experience in working on leading-edge technologies that would be of interest to one of the eleven federal agencies publishing the solicitation.

I'm already nearing 1000 words, so I'll keep this short. How many of you are even aware of the Federal government's mandate that the eleven most profligate Federal agencies need to devote 2.5% of their R&D spending to small companies? Companies like yours?

How many of you have ever applied for it?

How many of you would even know where to look?

The state of Georgia pays for a free SBIR Assistance Program (which also helps with STTRs; don't ask) that has helped dozens of companies land tens of millions of dollars in Federal grants and contracts. But you've never called them, have you? Now, by merging this program into ATDC, every member will get asked "Have you looked at the latest solicitations? Any of them sound interesting? Need some help figuring out how to submit a proposal?"