NASA provides this notice of an opportunity to participate in the Civilian Commercialization Readiness Pilot Program (CCRPP) for the FY21 award cycle of its SBIR/STTR program. The purpose for this notice is to provide interested contractors with time to locate investors for applications.

Congress reauthorized the CCRPP as part of the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 (Defense Reauthorization Act), with the purpose of accelerating the transition of SBIR and STTR funded technologies to commercialization. The CCRPP accomplishes this acceleration through a combination of additional SBIR/STTR program investment and NASA or non-NASA entity sponsor investment.

NASA’s CCRPP is available to small business concerns that have:

1. SBIR/STTR Phase II award(s) resulting from Phase I award(s) starting in Program Year 2010 or later and whose base Phase II period of performance is complete by December 7th, 2020. If a firm has received a Phase II-E on the Phase II, NASA will not require completed performance of the ongoing option period;
2. Ongoing or completed NASA SBIR/STTR Phase II Sequential awards from FY19 to present; or
3. Completed SBIR/STTR Phase II awards from other government agencies issued in fiscal years 2011 to present.

Firms must not have received a CCRPP award (or its equivalent) from any federal Agency for the Phase II technology associated with the Phase II award.

Firms must also have secured an investor willing to contribute matching funding to the maturation of the technology detailed in the application of research related to NASA interests. Investor(s) must be external to the NASA SBIR/STTR Program, which may include such entities as another company, a venture capital firm, an individual investor, a non-SBIR/non-STTR government program, or any combination of the above. An external investor cannot include the owners of the small business, their family members, and/or "affiliates" of the small business, as defined in Title 13 of the Code of Federal Regulations (C.F.R.), Section 121.103.

To be eligible, applicants must demonstrate maturation of the Phase II technology that aligns with NASA interests. The technology proposed for advancement toward commercialization should have a strong relevance to NASA’s missions as well as a strong potential use by NASA and/or markets outside of NASA beyond the CCRPP investment.

Eligible small business firms may submit a CCRPP application for the 2021 award cycle in response to this notice. If selected for award, NASA will match the investments with SBIR/STTR program funds between $500,000 and $3 Million for each CCRPP award. Applications must be submitted via the NASA SBIR/STTR Proposal Submission Electronic Handbook (EHB).

The EHB will accept CCRPP applications between October 26, 2020 and December 7, 2020 at 5 PM EST. NASA will select those applications which are most meritorious and within the budget parameters stated above.

Additional information and guidelines are available at the NASA SBIR/STTR website: http://sbir.nasa.gov/content/post-phase-ii-initiatives#CCRPP