So, I worked in SBIR space for 8 years. SBIR is a government prrogram designed to fund small businesses to do tech research.
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"The focus of this research is on reconfiguration in the infrastructure of the application." Why are these English words in this order?
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It minimizes misinterpretations. "Application infrastructure reconfiguration is the research focus" seems efficient, but is easier to twist.
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That's the opposite. It's deliberately vague because they already know who they want to give money to.
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Isn't the point of the SBIR program to rapidly differentiate ideas that work and don't in small Phase 1 contracts?
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There are references you didn't screenshot in that solicitation that explain more about the topic. https://www.sbir.gov/sbirsearch/detail/1254391 …
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I agree there's a lot wrong with SBIR: too many wired, Phase 1 $ too low, paperwork overhead too high, sponsors don't know their own needs
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But I think you're mischaracterizing the problem. As a SBIR participant, it's *very* hard to understand how anyone gets rich off this.
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There seem to be a bunch of companies who have figured out how to scale this. They pay contractors and just run through lots of these.
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SBIR review considers past commercialization efforts in future proposals to try and discourage that. It should definitely get stricter.
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You wanna keep mansplaining the field I spent a decade in or....
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For the companies I know that receive SBIR $, they're a godsend that lets them attempt products from research, my company included.
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I can do that with SaltStack
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I can do that with Chef in less than 5 minutes
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Cute how y'all are assuming the underlying application isn't written in JOVIAL or some shit
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Probably copied from a brochure for the exact thing they want to buy :-(
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To put it in somewhat cartoony terms: they want an easy way to make their computer stuff into shapeshifter ninjas.
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Kinda sounds like a CTO brainstorming session as recorded by a court typist
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.A deaf court typist.
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Nailed it. What's always great about these is that if you Google for the unusual phrases, it's in the preferred vendor's marketing material.
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