Capture SBIR Customer Validation via FOIA and Convert to Aerospace Consulting
- Organization
- National Science Foundation (SBIR Program)
- Sector
- Aerospace materials testing engineers at Boeing, Airbus, Lockheed Martin
- Location
- Location unspecified
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Executive summary
Current state
NSF awarded $1.5M SBIR Fast-Track funding to Lumistrain for carbon nanotube strain sensor development, creating a structural gap where government-funded R&D meets unfunded aerospace certification and manufacturing requirements. The asymmetry lies between cheap SBIR capital for technical development and the 5-10x larger capital needed for market penetration.
Market catalyst
SBIR proposals require 'Letters of Support' from potential customers as validation evidence - these letters name specific aerospace engineers and companies interested in the technology, creating a public-record warm lead list that can be extracted via FOIA before the company has sales capacity.
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