August 17, 2020 — NOAA recently announced its picks to receive part of USD 3.1 million (EUR 2.6 million) in grant funding as part of its Small Business Innovation Research Program.
The program, which closed its application process in December 2019, grants funding to small businesses that are working on technological innovations targeting either aquaculture, recreational, or commercial fisheries, weather service improvement and evolution, next generation NOAA platforms, and next-generation observation and modelling systems. In the latest announcements, six aquaculture companies and three commercial fisheries related companies received a combined total of USD 1.34 million (EUR 1.12 million).