Small Business Innovation Research program

Nanocomp Technologies, Inc., a developer of energy saving performance materials and component products from carbon nanotubes (CNTs), has been awarded two new contracts by the United States Air Force under the Department of Defense’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The SBIR program is funded by twelve federal agencies from their research and development budgets. It is designed to simultaneously stimulate technological innovation among private sector small businesses and to increase the commercialization of new technology through federal R&D.