The U. S. Department of Commerce (DOC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has released their FY2014 SBIR with an opening date of Nov. 13, 2013 and a closing date of Jan. 29, 2014. The main topics for this solicitation are in the areas of: Resilient Coastal Communities and Economies; Healthy Oceans; Climate Adaptation and Mitigation; and Weather-Ready Nation, with each topic consisting of several subtopics. The subtopics include:
- Developing and Improving Commercial Marine Algal Culture in the United States
- Automated Vertical Reference
- Rapid Identification of Species and Origin in Processed Seafood
- Development of System to Automate Analysis of Fisheries Information from Digital Stills
- Optimized CO2 Gas Sensor for Autonomous Measurement of Ocean Carbon
- Ultra-High Precision Measurements of Greenhouse Gas Stable Isotope Ratios
- Geospatial Database for Storm Risk Assessment
- Multi-Purpose Above Surface/Below Surface Expendable Dropsondes (MASED)
- New METSAT Display Service for Weather-Ready Nation
- Rip Current Sensor and Warning System
- Unmanned Aircraft System-Borne Atmospheric and Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Sensing
NOAA’s solicitation is contracts based and is available on FedBizOpps at: https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=
