Tibbetts Award

[1] Tibbetts Awards recognize accomplishments where, in the judgement of those closely involved and often most immediately affected, the stimulus of SBIR funding has made an important and definable difference.

[4] The SBIR program awards United States Federal Government funds to small businesses to develop innovative technologies that address important national priorities.

Individual agencies set aside a fraction of their research and development funds for the program and competitively award contracts to those firms that propose the best strategies to solve solicitation topics.

[5] Roland Tibbetts began the SBIR program as a tiny experimental project at the National Science Foundation.

SBIR companies employ more than 400,000 scientists and engineers—making the program the largest concentration of scientific and engineering talent in the United States, exceeding the combined total of all American academic and non-profit institutions.