Small Business Innovation Research
Harnessing Small Business Innovation to Advance Government Missions
We help build solutions that manage complex processes and connect small businesses with agencies. Whether it’s program solicitations or grants, we’ll cover every facet of the ecosystem for you. Our solution builds, manages, maintains, and modernizes across the full SBIR/STTR program lifecycle — and we’ll tailor it to support any requirement, at any maturity level.
REI Understands the Importance of the SBIR and STTR Programs
As an SBIR graduate, we bring more than 30 years of experience designing and implementing solutions to help federal agencies like NASA, DoD, EPA, SBA, and NSF manage complex, information-intensive processes. We bring more holistic solutions to our customer’s challenges in addition to just technology, such as outreach, change management, communications, Program Management Office (PMO) support, and other advisory services.
SBIR/STTR Services
Application Modernization
We enhance mission effectiveness with our Mindful Modernization® approach. Our application development services result in improved performance, scalability, and user experience with seamless integration with modern technologies.
Solution Architecture and Modernization Roadmap
Structure, process, analyze, and visualize data so government can better stratedgize and serve citizens, while offering greater transparency, and foster more evidence-based policymaking
Software Development and O&M
We provide expertise in O&M for modern solutions, deployment automation and proactive capacity planning. We increase user adoption through focused change management and communications.
Data and Analytics Solutions
Providing relevant and critical data to our clients so they can more effectively deliver on their mission using a proven approach.
Advisory Services
Supporting and aligning government IT policies, statutory programs, cloud computing strategies, and IT acquisitions to deliver the most secure, efficient, and modern solutions possible across organizations.
Cloud
Our cloud framework intelligently supports organizations’ specific needs throughout the entire cloud lifecycle. We provide strategic tools, security expertise, and partnerships for effective application modernization and migration, maximizing business value.
We’re Already Working With:
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
NASA has partnered with REI for over 30 years to automate, improve, and manage its SBIR and STTR Program. REI supports the management, development, and digital modernization of several complex enterprise information-intensive systems and processes. We transformed and digitally modernized the systems into a flexible, efficient web-based system using an Agile Scrum framework.
Small Business Administration (SBA)
REI supports SBA’s SBIR.gov, a comprehensive AWS-hosted Drupal 9 SBIR hub that centralizes the sharing of data through a web portal. Since its inception, SBIR.gov has served over 10 million visitors supporting a diverse ecosystem of entrepreneurs, support organizations, and SBIR agencies. .
Department of Defense (DoD)
The DoD SBIR/STTR programs award over $1B annually to U.S. small businesses on competitively selected projects to acquire innovative technologies focused on DoD’s needs and requirements. Our Impact-Level 4, cloud-hosted solution is an an intuitive, user-friendly, flexible, microservices-based system which has helped the OSD streamline, automate and improve their manual, disparate and offline SBIR processes.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
EPA’s SBIR program supports small businesses in the commercialization of innovative technologies that contribute to EPA’s mission of protecting human health and the environment. REI replaced EPA’s legacy SBIR review support system with a modern, intuitive solution that creates efficiency and streamlines their review process and annual reporting to SBA. Since going live in 2021, EPA is now able to beat SBA’s 90-day turn-around requirement from solicitation close to award.
Capabilities Accelerating
The Power of SBIR
Modernizing Legacy Applications
Building modern applications using our Mindful Modernization® approach to support ever-evolving business requirements for better mission outcomes.
Seamless cloud integration for modern transformation
No matter where our customers are on their journey, we help deliver the modern systems to meet the expanded demands of tomorrow.
The value of government data analytics is priceless
REI Systems provides relevant and critical data to our clients so they can more effectively deliver on their mission.
Achieve Strategic Goals
REI helps agencies think through their strategic IT policy, planning, and best practices so agencies know where they are now and understand where they want to go to meet future challenges.