SBIRScope — NASA SBIR/STTR Funding Intelligence
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SBIRScope — NASA SBIR/STTR Funding Intelligence

SBIRScope rolls up every NASA SBIR/STTR award to the awardee company — entity-resolved and de-duplicated, cross-linked to NASA TechPort for technology-readiness (TRL) context and to the NASA patent-licensing landscape, then scored with a deterministic 0–1 competitiveness score. It turns flat, public award data into a clean, company-level competitive-intelligence dataset: who wins NASA small-business space-tech money, by company, technology area, and readiness level.

Preview-only page. It shows the structure and capability of this dataset using a limited, representative sample. The competitiveness scores, funding rollups, and TRL cross-link — the sellable columns — are withheld, and the full dataset is not downloadable here. It is provided separately after licensing.

Coverage & headline figures

Built from three free, public NASA / SBIR.gov sources and cross-linked into one scored, exportable product. Deterministic and rule-based — no LLM in the pipeline.

18,523
NASA SBIR/STTR awards
award years 1983–2023
3,469
Distinct companies (resolved)
the cross-source hub
$4.64B
Total NASA funding tracked
$4,641,246,248
1,200
TechPort projects matched
TRL cross-link
49
Companies cross-linked to TechPort
premium TRL tier
0.80
Avg award quality score
0–1 completeness

Program mix: SBIR 17,071 · STTR 1,452. Phase mix: Phase I 13,034 · Phase II 5,489.

Sources (all free, keyless, public-domain)

  • SBIR.gov bulk award data → the NASA SBIR/STTR award universe (recipients, phases, topics, dollars).
  • NASA TechPort API → technology area and Technology Readiness Level (TRL) per project / organization.
  • NASA Technology Transfer API → the NASA-owned patent / software licensing landscape for context.

What’s in it — schema

Four cross-linked tables. companies is the headline deliverable; awards is the row-level detail that rolls up into it.

Tables in the dataset
Table Grain (one row =) Notable columns Rows
companies one resolved awardee firm competitiveness_score, total_award_usd, avg_trl 3,469
awards one NASA SBIR/STTR award award_amount_usd, phase, topic_code, abstract 18,523
techport_projects one matched NASA TechPort project trl_current, primary_tech_area, status 1,200
tech_patents one NASA licensable technology case_number, center, category —

Columns in companies (the headline table)

display_name Resolved, de-duplicated company name
city, state Location (most recent award)
award_count # NASA SBIR/STTR awards
phase_i_count / phase_ii_count Awards by phase
sbir_count / sttr_count Awards by program
first_award_year / last_award_year Award-year range
topic_codes / tech_areas Distinct NASA topics & technology areas
techport_project_count Matched NASA TechPort projects
is_cross_linked 1 if present in NASA TechPort
total_award_usd Total NASA funding ($) — gated
avg_trl / max_trl Technology Readiness Level — gated
competitiveness_score 0–1 deterministic ranking — gated

Sample preview gated

A representative slice of resolved companies. Award counts, phase mix, and TechPort linkage are shown; the competitiveness score, funding totals, and TRL — the proprietary, sellable columns — are redacted. Eight of 3,469 companies; ordering does not reflect the score.

companies — 8 sample rows (scores & dollars withheld)
Company Location Awards Phase II Years TechPort Total NASA $ Competitiveness
ALPHACORE INC Tempe, AZ 34 8 2014–2023 linked $••• 0.•••
QUALTECH SYSTEMS, INC. Rocky Hill, CT 54 24 1995–2023 linked $••• 0.•••
PARAGON SPACE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION Tucson, AZ 49 18 2004–2023 linked $••• 0.•••
PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC. Andover, MA 180 54 1983–2023 linked $••• 0.•••
MAINSTREAM ENGINEERING CORP Rockledge, FL 52 14 1989–2023 linked $••• 0.•••
Space Micro Inc. San Diego, CA 35 9 2003–2022 linked $••• 0.•••
ADVANCED FUEL RESEARCH, INC. East Hartford, CT 40 11 1985–2021 linked $••• 0.•••
Honeybee Robotics, Ltd. Brooklyn, NY 89 29 1991–2017 linked $••• 0.•••

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