Resources and Assistance for Small Businesses and Manufacturers

What do you need?

Funding for technology development

• Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program
• SBIR preferences for manufacturing-related R&D
• SBIR Technology Transfer offering royalty-free research licenses

Manufacturing support

• Manufacturing Extension Partnership: Grow or improve my manufacturing company
• Manufacturing USA: Overcome technology challenges and discover emerging technologies

Improve my cybersecurity

• NIST cybersecurity overview
• Understand and manage cybersecurity: NIST Cybersecurity framework
• Manufacturers: Cybersecurity Resources
• All industries: Baldrige Cybersecurity Excellence Builder

Get my technology calibrated

• NIST calibration services

Search for reference materials or data

• Standard Reference Materials
• Standard Reference Data

Learn more about cooperative research and development programs

• Research collaboration agreements

Operational improvement and support for all industries

• Improve my company’s performance

Identify technology for licensing

• License NIST technologies

Learn about research at NIST to support manufacturing

• NIST manufacturing overview
• NIST construction safety overview
• MEP-Assisted Technology and Technical Resource