Re: [DIYbio] DARPA is going to be funding research into synthetic biology.

On 08/07/2014 01:56 AM, Michael Shamberger wrote:
> They have a visitor's day scheduled but so far the details are not published on the funding and how to make proposals.

Notice the website this doc you mentioned is from:

https://www.fbo.gov/utils/view?id=6dc1dd6367fe0c944f1d89958eb50398

fbo.gov means federal business opportunities. They troll for mid sized businesses that are govt. contractors,
and are not set up to consider small teams or individuals at all. If you showed up, with all the expense that implies,
and impressed them with a concept, the next steps would be to become a "normal looking" govt. contractor
with twenty employees, ISO-9000 procedures, govt secret procedures etc. in place before getting much business.

Even a SBIR grant leads in the same direction. I used to monitor fbo.gov and applied to several until I figured this out.
I don't waste time on them anymore. Kickstarter and indiegogo are our friendly financiers.

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