Registering Your Company for Federal Work
Defense Opportunities
Different Types of Government Contracts
SBIR Overview, including information on phases, participating agencies, and eligibility
FAR, DFARS, Cyber, FEDRAMP, Platform One, etc
SBIR Intellectual Property
International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), Exporting, and Defense Trade Control
Venture Capital, CFIUS, FIRRMA, and more
Accelerators & Programming
Cost Proposal & Audits
Aggregated Resources
Registering Your Company for Federal Work
- https://innovation.mit.edu/mission-innovation-program/mission-innovation-program_incubator/where-to-start-applying-to-the-dual-use-ventures-incubator/ overview of initial steps
- http://www.dnb.com to obtain Duns & Bradstreet number
- https://sam.gov/content/home to register your company with SAM
- https://www.fedscout.com/registering-in-sam?hsLang=en tool to help you register in SAM
- https://www.sbir.gov/registration to obtain SBC Control ID
- https://www.dodsbirsttr.mil/submissions/login to register for DoD SBIRs and STTRs
- https://www.sbir.gov/tutorials/registration-requirements/ SBIR registration tutorial
Defense Opportunities
- https://sam.gov/content/home BAAs, SBIRs, STTRs, and all other competitive contracts, aggregated
- https://www.dodsbirsttr.mil/submissions/login DoD SBIRs and STTRs, aggregated
- https://afwerxchallenge.com collaboration which could result in SBIR
- https://www.sofwerx.org prize competition
- https://www.sbir.gov/sbirsearch/topic/current
- https://aal.army competitions that use SBIR mechanism
- https://www.arl.army.mil/xtechsearch/ prize competition
- https://www.peosoldier.army.mil/sep/ idea generation
- https://www.challenge.gov challenges
- https://www.grants.gov grants (not contracts)
- https://www.diu.mil/work-with-us/commercial Defense Innovation Unit contracts
- https://www.nacconsortium.org/current-otas/ consortia
- https://www.nac-dotc.org/about-opportunities/ consortium
- https://www.health.mil/About-MHS/OASDHA/Defense-Health-Agency/Research-and-Development Defense Health Agency
- https://mrdc.amedd.army.mil The Army’s Medical Research & Development Command
- https://cdmrp.army.mil Congressionally-directed Medical Research Program
- https://www.wrair.army.mil Walter Reed Army Institute of Research – Biomedical Research & Research Network
- https://usaisr.amedd.army.mil US Army Institute of Surgical Research
- https://techlinkcenter.org to license IP from the federal government
- https://www.dtra.mil/Business/Office-of-Small-Business/ Defense Threat Reduction Agency
- https://www.secnav.navy.mil/agility/Pages/guide_for_industry_academia.aspx NavalX
- https://www.darpa.mil/work-with-us/opportunities DARPA
- https://www.jpeocbrnd.osd.mil/Work-With-Us/ JPEO Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Defense
Different Types of Government Contracts
- https://www.fedscout.com/the-different-types-of-government-contracts
- https://aida.mitre.org/ota/ Other Transaction Authority (OTA)
- https://aaf.dau.edu/aaf/contracting-cone/ Contracting Cone (distinguishes between FAR-based and OT contracts by nomenclature)
SBIR Overview, including information on phases, participating agencies, and eligibilit
- https://www.sbir.gov/about overview with a table of contents on the left hand side
- https://www.sbir.gov/sites/default/files/elig_size_compliance_guide.pdf SBIR and STTR eligibility guide
- https://www.sbir.gov/agencies-landing federal agencies that participate in the SBIR program
- https://www.fedscout.com/a-startup-guide-to-sbir startup guide to SBIR
FAR, DFARS, Cyber, FEDRAMP, Platform One, etc.
- https://www.acquisition.gov/browse/index/far Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR)
- https://www.acquisition.gov/dfars Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation System (DFARS)
- https://acqnotes.com/acquisition-index Index
- https://acqnotes.com/references Acquisitions Regulations
- https://www.safcn.af.mil/Organizations/CISO-Homepage/Small-Business-Cybersecurity-Information/ information for tech startups on a variety of cybersecurity compliance topics
- https://www.sbir.gov/tutorials/cyber-security/ SBIR tutorial on cybersecurity for small business
- https://www.fedramp.gov how to become FEDRAMP authorized
- https://p1.dso.mil/ the platform one website
- https://www.nist.gov/standards NIST standards
SBIR Intellectual Property
- https://www.fedscout.com/sbir-ip-for-founders SBIR awardee guide to IP
- https://www.sbir.gov/tutorials/data-rights/tutorial-2 SBIR data rights
International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), Exporting, and Defense Trade Control
- https://www.sbir.gov/tutorials/itar/ SBIR tutorial on ITAR
- https://www.pmddtc.state.gov/ddtc_public State Department ITAR website
- https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-22/chapter-I/subchapter-M/part-121 CFR Munitions List
Venture Capital, CFIUS, FIRRMA, and more
- https://innovation.mit.edu/education-community/blog/?topic=mission-driven-innovation Who’s Your Ally Blog Series
- https://www.acq.osd.mil/tc/ Trusted Capital
- https://dodtrustedcapital.force.com/s/ Trusted Capital Marketplace
- https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/international/the-committee-on-foreign-investment-in-the-united-states-cfius CFIUS
- https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/4311 FIRRMA
- https://www.wiley.law/assets/htmldocuments/2021-Gov-Con-SBIR-How-Acquisitions-and-Venture-Capital-Funding-Impact-Eligibility-for-SBIR-Awards.pdf VC and SBIR Eligibility
- https://www.sba.gov/funding-programs/investment-capital SBICs
- https://www.techstars.com investment with programming
- https://www.engine.xyz investment with programming for tough tech
Accelerators & Programming
- https://masschallenge.org non-profit accelerator (non-equity programming)
- https://masschallenge.org/blue-technology-accelerator MC BlueTech
- https://apply.masschallenge.org/en/usaf AFRL Labs with MC
- https://www.techstars.com investment with programming
- https://www.engine.xyz investment with programming for tough tech
- https://www.activate.org funded fellowship for tough tech
- https://cyclotronroad.lbl.gov DOE accelerator
- https://chainreaction.anl.gov DOE fellowship
- https://www.fedtech.io programming
- https://www.nsin.mil programming, National Security Innovation Network
- https://icorps.mit.edu MIT I-Corps funded by the NSF
- https://beta.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/innovation-corps-teams-program NSF I-Corps national program
Cost Proposal & Audits
- https://www.aptac-us.org/cost-proposals-government-contracts/ article
- https://www.dcaa.mil/Small-Business/Small-Business-Resources/ DCAA small business resources
- https://www.sbir.gov/tutorials/accounting-finance/tutorial-3 tutorial on developing indirect costs
- https://www.sbir.gov/tutorials/accounting-finance/tutorial-4 tutorial on eligible and ineligible expenses
- https://www.sbir.gov/tutorials/accounting-finance/ tutorial table of contents on the topic of accounting and finance
- https://www.sbir.gov/sites/all/themes/sbir/dawnbreaker/img/documents/Course8-Tutorial2.pdf Timekeeping
Aggregated Resources
- https://www.sbir.gov/tutorials SBIR tutorials
- https://www.fedscout.com/resources Fedscout resources
- https://aida.mitre.org MITRE AiDA
- https://www.dawnbreaker.com/resources/ Dawnbreaker resources
- https://www.aptac-us.org PTAC Association
- https://www.sba.gov/local-assistance/federal-contracting-assistance PTAC
- https://www.score.org/us-small-business-administration-sba SCORE powered by the SBA
- https://www.sba.gov SBA