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1 Department of Energy Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response Office of Fossil Energy Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation Office of Fusion Energy Sciences Office of Electricity Office of High Energy Physics Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Office of Nuclear Energy Topics FY 2022 Phase I Release 2 Version 5, December 1, 2021 Schedule Event Dates Topics Released: Monday, November 8, 2021 Funding Opportunity Announcement Issued: Monday, December 13, 2021 Letter of Intent Due Date: Monday, January 3, 2022 Application Due Date: Tuesday, February 22, 2022 Award Notification Date: Monday, May 16, 2022* Start of Grant Budget Period: Monday, June 27, 2022 * Date Subject to Change Table of Changes Version Date Change Ver. 1 Nov. 08, 2021 Original Ver.

2 2 Nov. 15, 2021 Topic 19, subtopic e: Updated Subtopic Description Topic 36, subtopic s: Added Subtopic Topic 36, subtopic t: Added Subtopic Ver. 3 Nov. 23, 2021 Topic 2: Corrected Point-of-Contact Email Topic 3: Corrected Point-of-Contact Email Topic 7: Updated Topic Description Topic 7, subtopic b: Updated Subtopic Description Topic 9: Updated Table 1 Description Topic 9, subtopic b: Updated Subtopic Description and Table 5 Topic 19, subtopic e: Updated Subtopic Description Topic 36, subtopic j: Updated Subtopic Description Ver. 4 Nov. 30, 2021 Topic 21: Updated Topic Description Topic 22: Updated Topic Description Topic 23: Updated Topic Description Ver. 5 Dec. 01, 2021 Topic 7: Updated Topic Description COMMERCIALIZATION .. 9 TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER OPPORTUNITIES .. 9 PROGRAM AREA OVERVIEW: OFFICE OF CYBERSECURITY, ENERGY SECURITY, AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE .. 12 1. ENERGY SYSTEMS CYBERSECURITY.

3 12 a. Actionable Cyber Intelligence .. 13 PROGRAM AREA OVERVIEW: OFFICE OF DEFENSE NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT .. 15 2. ALTERNATIVE RADIOLOGICAL SOURCE TECHNOLOGIES .. 15 a. Novel Non-Radioisotopic Technology for Industrial Radiography .. 16 b. Novel Non-Radioisotopic Technology for Well Logging .. 16 c. Other .. 17 3. RADIATION DETECTION MATERIALS .. 18 a. Large Size, Low-Cost Scintillation Materials for Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy in Portal Monitors .. 18 b. Other .. 18 4. ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING TECHNIQUES FOR SPACE APPLICATIONS .. 19 a. Shielding of Electronic Circuits from Space Radiation via Additive Manufacturing .. 19 b. Space Qualified Printed Circuit Boards Produced Via Additive Manufacturing .. 19 c. Other .. 19 PROGRAM AREA OVERVIEW: OFFICE OF ELECTRICITY .. 21 5. ADVANCED GRID TECHNOLOGIES .. 21 a. Advanced Protective Relaying Technologies and 22 b. Methods for Predicting Performance of power Electronics Technologies.

4 22 6. ADVANCED ENERGY STORAGE AND power CONVERSION SYSTEM FOR ENERGY EQUITY .. 24 a. Adaptable, Deployable, and Robust power Conversion System for Energy Storage Used by Disadvantaged Off-grid 25 PROGRAM AREA OVERVIEW: OFFICE OF ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND RENEWABLE ENERGY .. 27 7. EERE JOINT TOPIC: COMMUNITY-DRIVEN SOLUTIONS FOR A JUST AND EQUITABLE ENERGY TRANSITION .. 28 a. Bioenergy Technologies Office .. 30 b. Water power Technologies Office .. 31 c. Geothermal Technologies Office .. 31 d. Solar Energy Technologies Office .. 31 e. Advanced Manufacturing Office .. 31 f. Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Technologies Office .. 31 g. Wind Energy Technologies Office and Water power Technologies Office Technology Solutions for Advancing Ocean Co-Existence and Co-Use with Marine Energy and Communities .. 32 h. Vehicle Technologies Energy Efficiency in Emerging Mobility Systems (EEMS): Developing and Applying Novel Mobility Solutions for Underserved and Disadvantaged Communities.

5 33 8. JOINT AMO/FECM TOPIC: DIVERSIFYING SUSTAINABLE SOURCES OF CRITICAL MINERALS AND MATERIALS .. 34 a. Production of CMM By-Products and Other Value-Add Minerals from Domestic Operations .. 36 b. Advanced Mining Techniques that Increase Environmental and Material Stewardship .. 37 9. JOINT TOPIC: CABLE CHARACTERIZATION & MODELING FOR FABRICATION .. 39 a. Enhanced Electrical Conductivity of Metals .. 43 b. Enhanced Thermal Conductivity of Non-Metals .. 44 10. JOINT BTO/AMO TOPIC: THERMAL ENERGY STORAGE (TES) .. 49 a. Simplified Sizing and Selection Tool for TES .. 49 b. Advanced Building Controls for Managing and Controlling TES .. 49 c. Integrated TES in HVAC&R Systems .. 49 11. JOINT TOPIC: WATER AND WIND TECHNOLOGIES AND ADVANCED MANUFACTURING OFFICES: DEVELOPMENT OF COST EFFECTIVE SUBSEA WET-MATEABLE CONNECTOR TECHNOLOGIES .. 50 a. Development of Manufacturable, Cost Effective Wet-Mateable Connector Technologies.

6 51 12. BIOENERGY TECHNOLOGIES .. 53 a. Increasing the Algal Portion of Fuels and Products .. 53 13. HYDROGEN AND FUEL CELL TECHNOLOGIES .. 54 a. TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER OPPORTUNITY: In-line Hydrogen Contaminant Detector .. 55 b. Innovative, Durable PEM Fuel Cell Cathode Catalysts for Medium- and Heavy-Duty Truck 56 c. Flow Control and Metering Technologies for Heavy-Duty Hydrogen Fueling .. 57 14. VEHICLE 58 a. Electric Drive Vehicle Batteries .. 58 b. Planar Magnetic Solutions for High Frequency power Conversion in Medium Voltage (MV) Grid-Tied EV Charging Systems .. 59 c. Innovative Green Composites for Future Vehicles .. 60 15. SOLAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES .. 61 a. Multiuse Integrated Photovoltaic Systems .. 64 b. Photovoltaic Recycling .. 66 c. Next-Generation power Electronics based on Silicon Carbide and/or Planar Magnetics .. 66 d. Technologies to Integrate Solar Generation with Energy Storage Systems and/or Electric Vehicle Charging.

7 67 e. Concentrating Solar-Thermal power System Construction, Manufacturing, and Reliability .. 68 f. Solar Hardware and Software Technologies: Affordability, Reliability, Performance, and Manufacturing .. 69 g. TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER OPPORTUNITY: Hierarchical Distributed Voltage Regulation in Networked Autonomous Grids .. 70 h. TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER OPPORTUNITY: Novel Solar Collector Tracking Error Direction; NIO-Heliostat .. 71 16. SOLAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES (STTR ONLY) .. 73 a. Transferring Novel Solar Technologies from Research Laboratories to the Market .. 76 b. Concentrating Solar power Technologies for Industrial Decarbonization .. 77 c. Next Generation Solar Forecasting .. 78 17. WIND ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES .. 80 a. Offshore Wind Operations & Maintenance Topic .. 81 b. Innovative Solutions to Wind Transmission Interconnection and Wind Cybersecurity Challenges .. 84 18. WATER power TECHNOLOGIES .. 85 a.

8 Cost Saving Innovations for Water Conveyance Systems for Powering Non-Powered Dams .. 86 b. Innovative Hydropower Technologies for Low Head (Less Than 30-ft.) .. 88 c. Innovations Accelerating Pumped Storage Hydropower Deployment .. 89 d. Co-Development of Marine Energy Technologies with End User Partners (CMET) .. 91 19. ADVANCED MANUFACTURING .. 94 a. Decarbonizing Industrial Heat with Heat Pumps: Industrial Heat Pumps Research .. 95 b. High Operating Temperature Storage (HOTS) for Manufacturing .. 96 c. High Voltage ( kV, 100 A) Half-Bridge SiC Powers Module for High Voltage EV Charging Stations, and DC-AC Inverters for Grid-Tied Renewables .. 98 d. Analog Semiconductor Devices for Sensing and Communications in Manufacturing .. 100 e. Affordable Technologies for Controlled Environment Agriculture .. 102 f. Other for Industrial Decarbonization .. 103 20. BUILDING TECHNOLOGIES ..108 a. High Performance Insulated Cladding for Residential Field Applied Applications.

9 108 b. Low-Cost Exterior Window Attachments for Disadvantaged Communities .. 109 c. Home Energy Score .. 110 PROGRAM OFFICE OVERVIEW OFFICE OF FOSSIL ENERGY AND CARBON MANAGEMENT .112 21. INNOVATIVE ENERGY SYSTEMS ..112 a. Advanced Sensors and Instrumentation for Online Measurement of Hydrogen and Natural Gas Fuels for Gas Turbines .. 112 b. Ammonia Reforming for Gas Turbine Applications .. 113 c. Hydrogen Burners for Industrial Application .. 114 d. Processing Methods to Manufacture High-Quality, Low-Cost Silicon Carbide (SiC) Fibers .. 115 e. Improved Lifing Models for CMC.. 115 f. Component Technology Advancement in Coal Waste and Biomass Gasification 115 g. High Performance Hydrogen Electrodes in Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cells using Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) Technique .. 117 h. Other .. 117 22. CARBON CAPTURE AND REMOVAL ..119 a. Novel Carbon Capture Technologies Employing Waste Heat in Regeneration of Materials Used in Direct Air Capture.

10 120 b. Highly Efficient Materials and Processes to Support Disruptive Carbon Capture Technologies for Natural Gas Combined Cycle power plants .. 120 c. Novel Technologies for Mitigation of Process CO2 Emissions in the Cement/Steel Sector .. 120 d. Highly Efficient Carbon Capture Technologies for Production of Hydrogen from Natural Gas .. 120 e. Quantification of Ancillary Environmental Benefits of Transformational Carbon Capture 121 f. Other .. 121 23. CARBON MANAGEMENT ..122 a. Production of Carbon-Metal Composites Incorporating Coal-Derived Materials .. 123 b. Conversion of CO2 into Plastics .. 124 c. Technology Innovations for Efficient and Effective Passive Seismic Monitoring During Carbon Storage Site Characterization .. 125 d. Other .. 125 PROGRAM AREA OVERVIEW: OFFICE OF FUSION ENERGY SCIENCES ..127 24. FUSION BLANKET AND TRITIUM FUEL CYCLE ..127 a. Dual Cooled Lead Lithium Blanket .. 128 b. Helium Cooled Ceramic Breeders.