Small Business Innovation Research

Welcome to the Marine Corps System Command (MARCORSYSCOM) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Home Page.

Since there are many sources of information available on the Internet about SBIR, these pages have been designed to provide information specific to the MARCORSYSCOM SBIR Program. Our purpose is to provide increased visibility into Science & Technology (S&T) activities occurring within the Small Business Innovation Research Program as well as other S&T communities.

The SBIR Program Office funds new technology research and development by Small Business Concerns. The goals of the program are two fold. One is to assist small businesses in developing new technologies and the second is to transition those technologies into Programs of Record. This "win-win" philosophy stimulates our country's economy and maintains our technological edge while at the same time providing our warfighters with the best equipment possible.

The SBIR Program goals are to:

1. Stimulate technological innovation;
2. Use small business to meet Federal Research/Research and Development (R/R&D) needs;
3. Foster and encourage participation by socially and economically disadvantaged small business concerns (SBCs), and by SBCs that are at least 51 percent owned and controlled by one or more individuals who are citizens of, or permanent resident aliens in, the United States, in technological innovation; and
4. Increase private sector commercialization of innovations derived from Federal R&D, thereby increasing competition, productivity, and economic growth.