USRIA joins the NSF-backed RETI Consortium as a collaborator to build a national hub for industrial energy innovation, focusing on grid resilience and energy efficiency.

Reviewing past SBIR/STTR-funded projects gives proposal teams a strategic edge. Historical award data reveals which technical challenges each agency prioritizes, how those priorities shift over time, and which approaches have succeeded—helping you align with agency missions, benchmark scope and budgets, identify emerging trends, and spot potential partners with proven performance. Grounding new ideas in demonstrable funding patterns is one of the most reliable ways to build a stronger, more targeted, and more competitive proposal.

Engaging a strategic partner on an SBIR/STTR proposal can be a decisive competitive advantage. The right partner brings complementary capabilities—specialized expertise, facilities, or domain knowledge—that strengthen technical credibility and show reviewers the team can solve the targeted challenge. A committed partner also provides external validation, signaling that the innovation has real-world relevance and reducing execution risk. Perhaps most important, partners help shape a realistic commercialization pathway through market access, customer insights, or integration support—one of the most heavily weighted factors in SBIR/STTR evaluations. In short, partnering adds expertise, credibility, and a clearer route from research to impact.

Learn how the SBIR and STTR programs provide over $4 billion annually in non-dilutive federal funding to help small businesses develop and commercialize innovative technologies.

The growing reliance on lithium-ion batteries has ushered in a critical challenge: managing these batteries at the end of their useful life. Without effective solutions, we run the risk of losing out on their significant remaining useful value and the critical rare-earth minerals contained within. This gap in end-of-life management is compounded by the lack of trusted sales channels and transparent methods to evaluate battery quality and assess their potential for second-life applications. Parthian Battery Solutions is determined to change that.