On November 12, 2019, DOE published a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) for topics for its Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)/Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I Release 2 funding. Participating in this FOA are the following DOE program offices:

• Office of Cyber Security, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER);
• Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation (NNSA);
• Office of Electricity (OE);
• EERE;
• Office of Environmental Management (EM);
• Office of Fossil Energy (FE);
• Office of Fusion Energy Sciences (FES);
• Office of High Energy Physics (HEP); and
• Office of Nuclear Energy (NE).

Interested applicants may register for one or more of DOE’s FY 2020 Phase I Release 2 SBIR/STTR Topics webinars. Presented by DOE Topic Managers, a series of three 90-minute webinars will be available:

• November 18, 2019 -- Webinar 1 on CESER, NNSA, OE, EM, and FE Topics 1-5 and 19-25
• November 19, 2019 -- Webinar 2 on EERE Topics 6-17
• November 20, 2019 -- Webinar 3 on FES, HEP, and NE Topics 26-38

For those unable to participate in the live webinars, they will be recorded and made available online.

In addition to the aforementioned webinars, a fourth one will be held to discuss the FOA and application process. This webinar will be held on December 19, 2019.

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