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From owner-news@OSTP.EOP.GOV Tue Jun 4 15:00:19 1996
From: "Michael Baum" <michael.baum@nist.gov>
Organization: NIST
Subject: Advanced Technology Program RFP

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: NIST 96 19 May 31, 1996

Contact: Michael Baum ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM
(301) 975 2763 REQUESTS PROPOSALS FOR
michael.baum@nist.gov 1996 GENERAL COMPETITION


The Commerce Department today announced the opening of a general
competition for new R&D awards under the department's Advanced
Technology Program. Approximately $20 million to $25 million will be
available in first year, cost shared funding for the awards, which
support the development by private industry of innovative, high risk
technologies with the potential for important, broad based economic
benefits for the United States.

ATP general competitions are open to proposals from any area of
technology, including those currently the subject of special ATP
focused programs. This will be the only competition for new ATP awards
during this fiscal year. Deadline for the submission of proposals to
the ATP is
3 p.m. Eastern time, September 18, 1996. Details of the competition
were published today in Commerce Business Daily.

"Programs like the ATP are a key factor in the Clinton
Administration's plan to ensure economic opportunity for all Americans
by strengthening the technological foundation on which our nation's
growth relies now and increasingly in the next century," said Commerce
Secretary Mickey Kantor.

Advanced Technology Program awards are designed to help industry
pursue risky, challenging technologies that have the potential for a
big pay off for the nation's economy. ATP projects focus on enabling
technologies that will create opportunities for new, world class
products, services and industrial processes, benefiting not just the
ATP participants, but other companies and industries and ultimately
consumers and taxpayers as well. The ATP's cost shared funding enables
industry to pursue promising technologies that otherwise would be
ignored or developed too slowly to compete in rapidly changing world
markets.


Both individual for profit companies and consortia including at
least two for profit companies may qualify for ATP awards. Non profit
independent research organizations, universities and federal
laboratories also may participate as subcontractors or partners in
consortia. Projects may run for up to three years for individual
companies or up to five years for joint ventures. Proposed projects
must focus on the development of high risk, enabling technologies that
underlie potential products, industrial process or services. The ATP
will not support product development work.

To provide potential applicants with general information on the
ATP, proposal selection criteria, the proposal evaluation process and
other information, the ATP will sponsor a series of six public
meetings, tentatively scheduled for the following cities:

New York City (LaGuardia Airport) July 12 Chicago, Ill.
July 15 San Francisco, Calif.
July 16 Denver, Colo. July 17 Dallas,
Texas July 18 Charlotte, N.C.
July 19

Attendance at these Proposers' Conferences is not required to
participate in the ATP competition. The format and content of all six
meetings will be the same.

Additional information on the public meetings and the ATP 1996
general competition and copies of the ATP Proposal Preparation Kit may
be obtained from the ATP, by phone: 1 800 ATP FUND, fax: (301) 926
9524, or email: atp@nist.gov. Additional information also may be
obtained on the Internet from the ATP World Wide Web site:
http://www.atp.nist.gov.

The Advanced Technology Program is managed by the National
Institute of Standards and Technology. A non regulatory agency of the
Commerce Department's Technology Administration, NIST promotes U.S.
economic growth by working with industry to develop and apply
technology, measurements and standards.