ATC Receives the Prestigious 2007 Tibbetts Award

December 1, 2007 Eden Prairie, MN. Named for Roland Tibbetts, the person acknowledged as the father of the SBIR program, these prestigious Tibbetts awards are national awards made annually to those small firms, projects, organizations and individuals judged to exemplify the very best in SBIR achievement.

In 2007 ATC took home its third prestigious Tibbetts award. The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program has been an important part of ATC's growth in product development with “next generation” networking technologies. Many of the breakthrough technologies developed by ATC started as Phase I SBIR efforts. ATC has received nearly 100 Phase I awards in the past 15 years, with approximately 40% being selected for Phase II contracts. These SBIR Awards have come from a wide range of government agencies including the Department of Homeland Security, Department of the Air Force, Department of the Navy, Department of the Army, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), US Coast Guard, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Department of Agriculture (supporting the National Forest Service).

The SBIR topics have been focused on ATC's core competency in innovative networking software. ATC has relied on a range of commercialization strategies from spinning off entirely new companies to inserting the technologies into larger ATC product development efforts to direct delivery to the government agency and marketing to prime contractors. ATC continues to actively in SBIR solicitations and is strongly supporting the continued success of the SBIR program.

Architecture Technology Corporation, headquartered in Eden Praire, MN, is an established advanced technology company which provides software-intensive solutions for complex problems.

Tibbetts Awards: An initiative of the non-profit Small Business Technology Council (SBTC) with support from NASA, NSF, DoD, Department of the Navy, NIH, DARPA, Boeing, The Association for Manufacturing Technology, Cybernet, Dawnbreaker, Gregg Olson, ATF, Homeland Venture, RMD, PBC, and Physical Sciences, Inc. Roland Tibbetts began the SBIR program as a tiny experimental project at the National Science Foundation. Today, the SBIR program has developed more than $21 billion worth of research by more than 15,000 firms—resulting in more than 45,000 patents. SBIR companies employ more than 400,000 scientists and engineers—making the program the largest concentration of scientific and engineering talent in the United States, exceeding the combined total of all American academic and non-profit institutions. Each year, 11 federal agencies award $2 billion in research contracts as part of the SBIR program.