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General Competitions

The ATP leverages industry R&D dollars in making investments in high-risk, enabling technologies that promise broad-based economic benefits in the future. The ATP carries out competitions each year to select R&D projects for support. Competitions are announced in Commerce Business Daily, by direct mail, and posted on our world wide web page. Only project proposals submitted in response to a formal competition are considered for evaluation. Projects are selected on the basis of both technical and business merit through a fair and rigorous selection process.

General competitions are open to all technology areas. Past general competition awards have covered a broad spectrum of technologies in agriculture, biotechnology, microelectronics and electronics manufacturing, machine tools, advanced automotive manufacturing, advanced materials, information and communication technology, chemical processing, and other areas.

Open Competitions

To simplify the application procedure and encourage the broadest possible participation by industry, starting with the 1999 competion, ATP:

conducted a single large open competition rather than several competitions in different technology areas;
established several independent technology-specific selection boards; and
assigned each project proposal for review by the board most qualified to evaluate the proposal's merits.

ATP Introduces Process Improvements to Streamline 2001 Competition for Innovative Industrial R&D. A new, streamlined proposal submission and review procedure marks the 2001 Advanced Technology Program (ATP) competition announced January 2, 2001.
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