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Small Business Innovative Research
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Budget Figures
FY2026 award data is a partial year — USASpending awards are reported on a rolling basis and the fiscal year does not close until September 30. why partial FY2026 data? →
| Fiscal year | Amount |
|---|---|
| FY24 | $129.4MR-1 TOA · PB2026 |
| FY25 | $0P-40 detail · PB2026 |
| FY26 | $0P-40 detail · PB2026 |
The vertical scale does not start at zero: the baseline sits just below this program’s smallest year, so a low point on this line is not a small amount. Read the shape for direction and the grid below for the figures.
● actuals (line) · ○ enacted · ◇ request — gaps are editions the program is absent from, never interpolated.
| Series | FY15 | FY16 | FY17 | FY18 | FY19 | FY20 | FY21 | FY22 | FY23 | FY24 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actuals | $85.3M | $89.1M | $94.9M | $100.8M | $112.6M | $107.3M | $109.9M | $121.4M | $126.9M | $129.4M |
| Enacted | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | – | |
| Request | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.
Asked vs spent: the PB2024 book requested $0 for FY2024; the PB2026 book reported $129.4M as actual total obligation authority — $129.4M above the request. 129.4 − 0.0 = 129.4 USD millions — the compact figures above are rounded for reading.
Program Lineage
No predecessor/successor lineage was recorded for this program element — no FY-to-FY transfer into or out of this line was stated in the ingested J-books, and none was inferred from the program structure.
Description
Mission — SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH
In accordance with Public Law No: 116-92 (National Defense Authorization Act 2020) and the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638), the DARPA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs are designed to provide small, high-tech businesses and academic institutions the opportunity to propose radical, innovative, high-risk approaches to address existing and emerging national security threats, thereby supporting DARPA's overall strategy to enable fundamental discoveries and technological breakthroughs that provide new military capabilities.
Justification
Accomplishments & Planned Programs (1)
Small Business Innovation Research
The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs are designed to provide small, high-tech businesses and academic institutions the opportunity to propose radical, innovative, high-risk approaches to address existing and emerging national security threats; thereby supporting DARPA's overall strategy to enable fundamental discoveries and technological breakthroughs that provide new military capabilities.
Budget Line Items(workbook-cited)
P-1/R-1 workbook Total Obligation Authority basis (USD thousands) · PB2026.
Exhibit R-1
| Account | Org | Type | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide | DARPA | FY24 Actuals | $129.4M |
Budget Details(R-2/P-40 facts)
J-book detail basis (R-2/P-40, USD millions) · PB2026 — a different accounting basis from the P-1/R-1 workbook TOA above; where the two disagree, the reconciliation strip under Budget Figures shows both.
Wider than this screen — swipe the table sideways for the remaining fiscal-year columns.
| Project | All Prior Years | FY24 Actuals | FY25 Total | FY26 Base | FY26 Request |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Program Element | $0 | $129.4M | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| SB-01: SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH | $0 | $129.4M | $0 | $0 | $0 |
Follow the dollar
Appropriation → program element → top high-confidence awards → recipient families → congressional districts.
Follow-the-dollar covers 17 of 1,741 programs — only high-confidence budget→award links are shown. why coverage is partial? →
The diagram illustrates the cited table below — amounts shown in the diagram are transaction sums per award (no citation chips); the per-district obligations in the table cite USAspending queries.
| District | Program obligations |
|---|---|
| VA-11 | $161.8M |
| MD-08 | $84.1M |
| VA-08 | $77.4M |
| MA-05 | $17.2M |
| AL-05 | $12.9M |
| VA-10 | $7.74M |
| VA-07 | $5.66M |
| CA-50 | $5.59M |
| OH-10 | $3.65M |
| PA-07 | $3.48M |
| CA-51 | $3.38M |
Related Awards
Award linkage is shown for 20 of 200 profiled companies — only high-confidence USASpending matches are included. why partial award coverage? →
Showing 25 of 488 award records (R&D performer crosswalk — see methodology)
| Recipient | PIID | Confidence |
|---|---|---|
| 5-D SYSTEMS, INC. | W56KGU14C0063 | high |
| AARNO LABS LLC | W31P4Q18C0084 | high |
| ACCELEREYES LLC | W31P4Q18C0068 | high |
| ACCELINT AI, LLC | W31P4Q17C0065 | high |
| ACORN SCIENCE & INNOVATION, INC. | HDTRA119P0025 | high |
| AMERICAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION | HT003819G0001 | high |
| AMETHYST RESEARCH INC | W31P4Q17C0071 | high |
| APTIMA INC | W31P4Q17C0050 | high |
| ARRAY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INC | HDTRA119P0026 | high |
| ATC-NY INC | HQ003419P0089 | high |
| BLUEHALO LABS, LLC | W31P4Q19C0050 | high |
| BOSTON FUSION CORP | W31P4Q18C0054 | high |
| CACI PHOTONICS, LLC | W909MY17C0034 | high |
| CACI PHOTONICS, LLC | W911SR19C0027 | high |
| CARLEY TECHNOLOGIES INC | W31P4Q18C0052 | high |
| CHARLES RIVER ANALYTICS, INC. | W31P4Q17C0121 | high |
| CHARLES RIVER ANALYTICS, INC. | W911SR19C0046 | high |
| CREARE LLC | HDTRA119P0002 | high |
| CYAN SYSTEMS, INC. | HQ003419P0039 | high |
| DELUX ADVANCED MANUFACTURING, LLC | W31P4Q17C0165 | high |
| DFR SOLUTIONS, LLC | HDTRA119C0014 | high |
| DIVERSIFIED TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | W31P4Q18C0085 | high |
| DZYNE TECHNOLOGIES, LLC | FA865019C9203 | high |
| ENGENIUSMICRO LLC | W31P4Q18C0001 | high |
| ENGINEERING AND SOFTWARE SYSTEM SOLUTIONS, INC. | FA857119CA004 | high |
Contractor Concentration
Lobbying Mentions
No Senate LDA lobbying filing in the tracked data mentions this program element by code or alias.
Oversight
Department-level designation (not specific to this program)
GAO lists 5 high-risk areas for DOD as a whole. That designation covers the department, not Small Business Innovative Research — no program-specific GAO finding for this line is in the ingested data. See the DOD oversight record.
No research dossier for this program — dossiers cover 50 of 1,741 programs, the largest fully J-book-detailed lines by FY2026 requested dollars. why no dossier here? →