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Makes awards to universities, non-profit organizations, other Federal agencies, large businesses, and small businesses—in addition to its support of the DOE National Laboratories.
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NCER’s Science to Achieve Results or STAR program funds research grants and graduate fellowships in numerous environmental science and engineering disciplines.
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NASA solicits this research through the release of various research announcements in a wide range of science and technology disciplines.
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NIST funds industrial and academic research from small businesses and also offers other grants to encourage work in specific fields: precision measurement, fire research, and materials science.
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Advances biomedical research.
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Funding source for approximately 21 percent of all federally supported basic research conducted by America's colleges and universities. In many fields such as mathematics, computer science and the social sciences, NSF is the major source of federal backing.
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The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program is a highly competitive program that encourages domestic small businesses to engage in Federal Research/Research and Development (R/R&D) that has the potential for commercialization.