Closed · DE-FOA-0002335 · CFDA 81.135 · Discretionary

SHARKS SBIR/STTR

Federal grant opportunity posted by Advanced Research Projects Agency Energy, cataloged on Grants.gov.

$257K-$3.7M
Award range
Closed
Status
August 28, 2020
Close date
12
Expected awards

The verdict

SHARKS SBIR/STTR is a closed discretionary listing from Advanced Research Projects Agency Energy that offered $256,580 -- $3,677,642 across 12 expected awards. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number. PlainGrants indexes 183 other opportunities from Advanced Research Projects Agency Energy.

$257K-$3.7M
award range
Closed
application status
12
expected awards
81.135
CFDA program

Archived opportunity record

SHARKS SBIR/STTR is closed (last close August 28, 2020). The parent program page for CFDA 81.135 is the reliable place to catch re-announcements. Advanced Research Projects Agency Energy still indexes 183 other opportunities here.

According to Grants.gov (extract vintage 2026-08-10), this record reflects the officially published listing. See methodology.

Deadline tracker

Application window closed

Closed August 28, 2020

Posted Apr 9 Closes Aug 28

Est. Total Funding

$38,000,000

Expected Awards

12

Instrument

Grant

Description

Submarine Hydrokinetic and Riverine Kilo-Megawatt Systems (SHARKS) SBIR/STTRThe purpose of this modification is to incorporate changes to Funding Opportunity Announcement Number DE-FOA-0002335. Accordingly this modification,• Inserted certain deadlines, including the deadlines for submitting questions and Full Applications. See Cover Page and Required Documents Checklist.• Inserted clarification on Technical Tasks. See Section I.D.4 of the FOA.• Inserted clarification on Approach and Design Philosophy. See Section I.E of the FOA.• Revised the following sections of the FOA to provide guidance on required application forms and the content and form of Full Applications and Replies to Reviewer Comments: Required Documents Checklist and Sections IV.D, IV.E, and IV.G of the FOA. Applicants are strongly encouraged to use the templates provided on ARPA-E eXCHANGE (https://arpa-e-foa.energy.gov).• Inserted criteria that ARPA-E will use to evaluate Full Applications, see Section V.A.2 of the FOA.• Inserted criteria that ARPA-E will use to evaluate Replies to Reviewer Comments in Section V.A.3 of the FOA.• Inserted information on the anticipated announcement and award dates, see Section V.C of the FOA.• Inserted information concerning Full Application Notifications, see Section VI.A.3 of the FOA.• Inserted Administrative and National Policy Requirements, see Section VI.B of the FOA.• Inserted Reporting Requirements, see Section VI.C of the FOA.To obtain a copy of the Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) please go to the ARPA-E website at https://arpa-e-foa.energy.gov. To apply to this FOA, Applicants must register with and submit application materials through ARPA-E eXCHANGE (https://arpa-e-foa.energy.gov/Registration.aspx). ARPA-E will not review or consider full applications submitted through other means. For detailed guidance on using ARPA-E eXCHANGE, please refer to the ARPA-E eXCHANGE User Guide (https://arpa-e-foa.energy.gov/Manuals.aspx).

Small-business / for-profit corridor · DE-FOA-0002335

SHARKS SBIR/STTR prints a for-profit / small-business applicant door (Small businesses). Treat the listing as business-facing unless the full Grants.gov announcement narrows it further. The extract does not mark applicant cost-sharing as required. Instrument: Grant. Funding-activity code maps to Science and Technology / R&D (ST). 35 other Advanced Research Projects Agency Energy listings share this eligibility-code string (19% of 184).

Code 23
Small businesses

Codes are Grants.gov eligibility category values from the extract vintage 2026-08-10. Confirm the full eligibility statement on the official listing or the Grants.gov eligibility reference.

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Parent Grant Program

CFDA 81.135

Environmental Cleanup

U.S. Department of Energy

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Agency Contact

Mary A. Barnes 202-287-1057 mary.barnes@hq.doe.gov ARPA-E CO arpa-e-co@hq.doe.gov

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What to do next

SHARKS SBIR/STTR is closed; use the parent program and agency catalog for the next funding cycle.

  • Parent CFDA 81.135 may publish future NOFOs under the same assistance listing. Open program
  • Environmental Cleanup indexes 2 Grants.gov listings in this extract. Program profile
  • Advanced Research Projects Agency Energy lists 183 other indexed opportunities on PlainGrants. Agency catalog

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