I expect most other applicants to do the due diligence and communicate with program officers as well, it's even suggested on the application paperwork. In gener

I expect most other applicants to do the due diligence and communicate with program officers as well, it's even suggested on the application paperwork. In general I expect similar situations to attract similar caliber of people, the only exceptionality I expect is in their core competency not in other things such as process, paperwork etc. I agree on non-monetary rewards, those can be useful for some people depending on their future plan. I see myself in consumer market, so it's not clear how much benefit will I get from it. Would be nice to know more about that. I need to look closer into the two-week thing. You might be right, and if it's less than a week I might as well just do it. Speaking of probabilities, they have funded 395 out of 2067 submissions in 2007, so the estimates are going up slightly: http://www.nsf.gov/eng/iip/sbir/phaseI_map.ppt http://www.nsf.gov/eng/iip/sbir/phaseI_map.ppt