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NSF program SBIR Fast-Track (287Y00): 17 awards, $21.7M to 17 organizations
17 NSF awards ($21.7M) under the program element SBIR Fast-Track (287Y00) to 17 organizations, fiscal years 2022 to 2026, read 2026-11-03.
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- Program element code
- 287Y00
- Directorate
- Directorate for Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships
- Division
- Start-ups and Small Businesses Section
Awards
17 awards in the window.
| Award | Agency | Institute or division | Fiscal year | Amount in window | Start | End | Principal investigator | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SBIR Fast-Track: Selective Evaporative Lithium Transport and Extraction from Saline Water | NSF | Start-ups and Small Businesses Section | 2025 | $1,555,000 | August 15, 2025 | July 31, 2028 | Sunxiang 'Sean' Zheng | nsf.gov |
| SBIR Fast-Track: Providing Timely, Inexpensive, and Comfortable Earmolds (EMs) for Hearing Loss (HL) Patients using Computed Axial Lithography (CAL) 3D Printing | NSF | Start-ups and Small Businesses Section | 2025 | $1,555,000 | August 15, 2025 | January 31, 2028 | Joseph Toombs | nsf.gov |
| SBIR Fast-Track: Direct Electrochemical Generation of Caustic Peroxide in a Porous Solid Electrolyte Reactor for Onsite Applications | NSF | Start-ups and Small Businesses Section | 2025 | $1,555,000 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | Ryan DuChanois | nsf.gov |
| SBIR Fast-Track: Reducing Hospital-Acquired Pressure Injuries and Workforce Strain Through Automated Repositioning Technology | NSF | Start-ups and Small Businesses Section | 2026 | $1,555,000 | June 15, 2026 | May 31, 2029 | Justin Scott | nsf.gov |
| SBIR Fast-Track: Automated Creation of Material Models for Multi-Polymer 3D Printing | NSF | Start-ups and Small Businesses Section | 2026 | $1,555,000 | August 1, 2026 | July 31, 2029 | Steven J Yang | nsf.gov |
| SBIR Fast-Track: Electroanalytical State-of-charge and Chemical Composition Sensors for Redox Flow Batteries | NSF | Start-ups and Small Businesses Section | 2026 | $1,554,998 | August 1, 2026 | January 31, 2029 | Rebecca N Segel | nsf.gov |
| SBIR FastTrack: Generative AI-Driven Simulation to Address the Long-Tail Problem in Autonomous Vehicle Safety Validation | NSF | Start-ups and Small Businesses Section | 2025 | $1,554,922 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | Haowei Sun | nsf.gov |
| SBIR Fast-Track: A Proprietary Argumentation Heuristic Framework for Structured Reasoning and Logic Evaluation in Presentation Authoring | NSF | Start-ups and Small Businesses Section | 2026 | $1,554,830 | July 1, 2026 | June 30, 2029 | Steven Franconeri | nsf.gov |
| SBIR Fast-Track: Dexterous Robotic Manipulation in Manufacturing and Material Handling | NSF | Start-ups and Small Businesses Section | 2025 | $1,554,195 | September 15, 2025 | October 31, 2027 | Pedro Piacenza | nsf.gov |
| SBIR Fast-Track: Strain Sensing Smart Skin (S4) for Structural Testing and Health Monitoring | NSF | Start-ups and Small Businesses Section | 2026 | $1,549,408 | July 1, 2026 | June 30, 2029 | Wei Meng | nsf.gov |
| SBIR Fast-Track: Development of a Continuous Flow Reactor Technology for Industrial-Grade MXene Production: A Safer, High-Throughput Alternative to Batch Processing | NSF | Start-ups and Small Businesses Section | 2026 | $1,546,866 | August 1, 2026 | April 30, 2029 | Sebastian Osswald | nsf.gov |
| SBIR Fast-Track: Rapid Repair, Protection, and Reclamation of Key Infrastructure Assets by Frontally Polymerizing Resin System | NSF | Start-ups and Small Businesses Section | 2025 | $1,542,335 | September 1, 2025 | May 31, 2028 | Robert R Tuttle | nsf.gov |
| SBIR Fast-Track: Scaling Up Pressure-Driven Distillation for Ultrapure Water Production | NSF | Start-ups and Small Businesses Section | 2025 | $1,525,915 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | Kian P Lopez | nsf.gov |
| SBIR Fast-Track: PIPELINE - Precision Inspection of Pressurized Environments using Long-term, Intelligent Navigation and Evaluation | NSF | Start-ups and Small Businesses Section | 2025 | $400,000 | August 15, 2025 | August 31, 2026 | Elliot R Smith | nsf.gov |
| SBIR Fast-Track: Scalable Robotic Skill Learning via Generative Embodied Twins and Vision-Language-Action Models for Task-Oriented Autonomy | NSF | Start-ups and Small Businesses Section | 2026 | $400,000 | September 15, 2026 | February 28, 2029 | Yanxiang Zhang | nsf.gov |
| SBIR Fast-Track: Advanced Hexagonal Boron Nitride Composite Semiconductor Packaging for Enhanced Performance, Efficiency, and Protection | NSF | Start-ups and Small Businesses Section | 2026 | $388,740 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2029 | Tianshu Zhai | nsf.gov |
| SBIR Fast-Track: Home-Based Stroke Rehabilitation: Researching and Developing the Bluetooth Electromyography-Based StrokeTherapeutic (BEST) System | NSF | Start-ups and Small Businesses Section | 2026 | $304,997 | July 1, 2026 | December 31, 2028 | Jasper Mark | nsf.gov |
Organizations
| Organization | Place | NIH awards | NIH amount | NSF awards | NSF amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Princeton Critical Minerals, Inc. | Franklin Park, NJ | 0 | $0 | 1 | $1.6 million |
| Fitoto Technologies Inc. | Oakland, CA | 0 | $0 | 1 | $1.6 million |
| Solidec Inc. | Houston, TX | 0 | $0 | 1 | $1.6 million |
| Sit Sense, INC | East Lansing, MI | 0 | $0 | 1 | $1.6 million |
| Neural Solid, Inc. | Ithaca, NY | 0 | $0 | 1 | $1.6 million |
| Flowcellutions, INC | Pittsburgh, PA | 0 | $0 | 1 | $1.6 million |
| Saferdrive Ai LLC | Ypsilanti, MI | 0 | $0 | 1 | $1.6 million |
| Becise LLC | Evanston, IL | 0 | $0 | 1 | $1.6 million |
| Tangible Robotics INC | New York, NY | 0 | $0 | 1 | $1.6 million |
| Lumistrain, Inc. | Houston, TX | 0 | $0 | 1 | $1.5 million |
| Mxene INC | Philadelphia, PA | 0 | $0 | 1 | $1.5 million |
| Rapicure Solutions, Inc. | Loveland, CO | 0 | $0 | 1 | $1.5 million |
| Osmopure Technologies, INC | Boulder, CO | 0 | $0 | 1 | $1.5 million |
| Motmot, Inc. | Detroit, MI | 0 | $0 | 1 | $400,000 |
| Ai Scope INC | Knoxville, TN | 0 | $0 | 1 | $400,000 |
| Hexaspec INC | Houston, TX | 0 | $0 | 1 | $388,740 |
| Impulse Wellness LLC | Raleigh, NC | 0 | $0 | 1 | $304,997 |
Funding by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | NIH awards | NIH amount | NSF awards | NSF amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 | $0 | 9 | $10,409,839 |
| 2025 | 0 | $0 | 8 | $11,242,367 |
Open federal funding opportunities
From Grants.gov: notices that funded awards in this table, and open notices on the same agency and assistance listing.
| Open opportunity | Number | Agency | Listing | Closes | Award ceiling | Why it matches |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NSF Small Business Innovation Research / Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I, Phase II, Fast-Track Programs: A Pilot Emphasis on Scientific Instrumentation | 26-511 | NSF | 47.084 | November 4, 2026 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.084 as 17 awards here |
| Unlocking Dataset Value for AI-Enabled Scientific Discovery (AI Datasets) | 26-512 | NSF | 47.084 | November 4, 2026 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.084 as 17 awards here |
| U.S. National Science Foundation State and Regional Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Hubs: | 26-513 | NSF | 47.084 | November 4, 2026 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.084 as 17 awards here |
| National Science Foundation Translation to Practice (NSF TTP) | 25-540 | NSF | 47.084 | November 17, 2026 | $2 million | Same assistance listing 47.084 as 17 awards here |
| National Science Foundation Fostering Interdisciplinary Networks to Develop Emergent and Responsive Solutions Foundry (NSF FINDERS FOUNDRY) | 26-507 | NSF | 47.084 | November 18, 2026 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.084 as 17 awards here |
| EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Program: Focused EPSCoR Collaborations (FEC) | 24-573 | NSF | 47.084 | January 26, 2027 | $1.5 million | Same assistance listing 47.084 as 17 awards here |
| Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-1 | 24-598 | NSF | 47.084 | February 8, 2027 | $20 million | Same assistance listing 47.084 as 17 awards here |
| EMERGING FRONTIERS IN RESEARCH AND INNOVATION (EFRI-2026/27): Wave-Based Computing ( EFRI-WBC) | 26-524 | NSF | 47.084 | February 11, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.084 as 17 awards here |
| Pathways to Enable Secure Open-Source Ecosystems (PESOSE) | 26-506 | NSF | 47.084 | March 2, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.084 as 17 awards here |
| NSF National Quantum Virtual Laboratory (NQVL) | 24-586 | NSF | 47.084 | April 6, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.084 as 17 awards here |
| EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement (RII): EPSCoR Research Fellows | 24-528 | NSF | 47.084 | April 13, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.084 as 17 awards here |
| Findable Accessible Interoperable Reusable Open Science (FAIROS) | 25-533 | NSF | 47.084 | April 14, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.084 as 17 awards here |
| EPSCoR Graduate Fellowship Program (EGFP) | 24-588 | NSF | 47.084 | June 1, 2027 | $3.2 million | Same assistance listing 47.084 as 17 awards here |
| Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) | 22-586 | NSF | 47.084 | July 28, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.084 as 17 awards here |
| Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) | 23-601 | NSF | 47.084 | August 18, 2027 | $500,000 | Same assistance listing 47.084 as 17 awards here |
| Historically Black Colleges and Universities - Excellence in Research (HBCU - EiR) | 23-598 | NSF | 47.084 | October 19, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.084 as 17 awards here |
| National Science Foundation National Innovation Corps Teams (NSF National I-CorpsTM Teams) Program | 25-549 | NSF | 47.084 | October 6, 2076 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.084 as 17 awards here |
| Facilitating Research at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions: (RUI and ROA-PUI) | 14-579 | NSF | 47.084 | October 14, 2076 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.084 as 17 awards here |
| Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR): Workshop Opportunities | 24-540 | NSF | 47.084 | $200,000 | Same assistance listing 47.084 as 17 awards here | |
| Cyberinfrastructure for Public Access and Open Science | PD-24-7414 | NSF | 47.084 | $600,000 | Same assistance listing 47.084 as 17 awards here |
Updated November 3, 2026. Read from NIH RePORTER ExPORTER and NSF Award Search. Published by NIH and NSF as U.S. government data. NIH awards are fiscal years 2021 to 2025 (NIH files published to 2026-07-09); NSF awards are fiscal years 2022 to 2026 (NSF files published to 2026-11-02). NIH amounts are the total cost of each fiscal year in the window; NSF amounts are the funds obligated in the window. Organizations are matched on the UEI. Open opportunities come from Grants.gov and match on agency and assistance listing number, and on the notice number NIH prints on an award. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0. Spot a wrong value? Write to [email protected] with the link to this page.