Peer Review Panelists needed for Minority University Research and Education Project (MUREP)
Small Business Technology Transfer Research (M-STTR) Planning Grants
The M-STTR Research Planning Grant is intended to bring together MSI researchers and SBCs, thus maximizing the potential for long-term collaborations and enhancing the opportunities provided through the STTR program. Grants are intended to address challenges and barriers faced by the MSI research community in developing collaborative opportunities. Funding enables universities and SBCs to engage in substantive conversations along mutual areas of interest, goals, and long-term outcomes. The goals of this planning grant are to stimulate creative engagements between MSI researchers and SBCs on areas of mutual interest and develop mutually beneficial relationships that result in new technologies supporting the NASA mission and commercial market development.
The desired result is to enable viable partnership for competing in the annual SBIR/STTR solicitation. The outcome of this planning grant activity is thoroughly prepared MSI/SBC teams with action plans to respond to the annual SBIR/STTR solicitation release. For additional information on the opportunity, please go to the M-STTR webpage in the NASA Solicitation and Proposal Integrated Review and Evaluation System (NSPIRES).
The peer review process is completed in two stages:
THE ONLINE REVIEW PERIOD IS SCHEDULED FOR JUNE 16, 2021 – JUNE 23, 2021
Non-civil servant online reviewers will receive $75 for each proposal review completed and submitted in NSPIRES prior to the close of the review period. Proposals are approximately 15 pages in length and every effort is made to assign no more than 5 proposals per online reviewer.
THE VIRTUAL PANEL REVIEW IS SCHEDULED FOR JUNE 28, 2021 – JUNE 30, 2021
Non-civil servant panelists will receive a $200/per day honorarium.
If you are interested in serving as an online reviewer and/or panelist, send a reply indicating your availability by June 14, 2021. To assist with proposal matching and avoidance of obvious conflicts, please include your CV if possible. Additionally, if you know someone who would be interested in this opportunity, feel free to forward this email.
Please note, your willingness to participate in this review does not guarantee your selection. Reviewers will be selected based on the subject matter of each planning grant received. You will be contacted, only if you are selected to participate.
Thank you.
Tamra Ross
