Security needs spawn small business programs.

The Homeland Security Noun 1. Homeland Security - the federal department that administers all matters relating to homeland security
Department of Homeland Security

executive department - a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States Advanced Research Projects Agency (HSARPA HSARPA Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency ) has issued its first Small Business Innovation Research program solicitation.

The agency is seeking proposals for new technologies to detect low-vapor-pressure chemicals, chemical-biological sensors employing novel receptor scaffold, advanced low-cost aerosol collectors for surveillance sensors and personal monitoring, computer-modeling tool for vulnerability assessment A Department of Defense, command, or unit-level evaluation (assessment) to determine the vulnerability of a terrorist attack against an installation, unit, exercise, port, ship, residence, facility, or other site. of U.S. infrastructure, a marine-asset tag-tracking system, and a ship-compartment inspection device.

Participation in the HSPRA SBIR SBIR Small Business Innovation Research (program/grant)
SBIR Space Based Infra-Red
SBIR Speaker-Boundary Interference
SBIR Site Backsurface-referenced Ideal Plane/Range (silicon wafers) program is restricted to for-profit small businesses in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , with 500 or fewer employees.

Firms can apply for a six-month Phase I award not exceeding $100,000 to define the scientific, technical and commercial merit of a product.

Successful firms will be invited to apply for a two-year Phase II award not exceeding $750,000 to further develop their concepts to the prototype stage.

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Title Annotation:	Security Beat
Author:	Fein, Geoff S.
Publication:	National Defense
Article Type:	Brief Article
Geographic Code:	1USA
Date:	Jan 1, 2004
Words:	135
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