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Important new information about the DOD SBIR program 1. The DoD SBIR/STTR help desk can address your questions about this solicitation, proposal preparation, contract negotiation, getting paid, government accounting requirements, intellectual property protection, commercialization reporting, the fast track, and other program-related areas. 2. The DoD SBIR/STTR web site offers electronic access to many important resources for SBIR participants, such as the initial public release of each SBIR solicitation, sample SBIR proposals, model SBIR contracts, links to the component SBIR programs within DoD, answers to commonly-asked questions about SBIR contracting, descriptive data on the SBIR program, and the latest program updates. 3. Your SBIR proposal cover sheet (formerly, "Appendix A and B") and company commercialization report must now be submitted electronically through www.dodsbir.net/submission, as described in sections 3.4b and n. 4. DoD has adopted commercialization of SBIR technology(in military and/or private sector markets) as a critical measure of performance for both the DoD SBIR program and the companies that participate in the program. This new policy is reflected in sections 3.4h and 3.6 of this solicitation (Commercialization strategy); Section 3.4n (Company Commercialization report on prior SBIR awards); Section 4.4 (Assessing Commercial potential of proposals); and Section 5.4 (Commercialization report updates). 5. Under DoD's "Fast Track" policy (Section 4.5), SBIR projects that attract some matching cash from an outside investor for the phase II effort receive expedited processing and interim funding between phases I and II. See http://www.acq.osd.mil/sadbu/sbir/fsttrack.html#results. 6. Each DoD component (Army, Navy, Air Force, etc.) has developed tis own phases II enhancement policy. Under this policy, the component will provide a phase II company with additional phase SBIR funding if the company can match the additional SBIR funds with non-SBIR funds from DoD acquisition programs or the private sector. See each component's section of the solicitation for details. 7. You may contact the DoD authors of solicitation topics to ask questions about the topics before you submit a proposal. Procedures for doing so are discussed in section 1.5c of this solicitation. Please note that you may talk by telephone with a topic author to ask such questions only between may 1, when this solicitation was publicly released, and July 2, when DoD begins accepting proposals. At other times, you may submit written questions as described in section 1.5c. 8. A number of the navy and air force topics is supported by a DoD acuqisition program (e.g. New attack submarine), as noted in the text of the topic. These acquisition programs are potentially important end customers for innovative new products resulting from SBIR projects. Information on how to contact these programs is posted on the DoD SBIR/STTR web site, at http://www.acq.osd.mil/sadbu/sbir/acqprog/liaisons.htm.