The Technology Administration's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will hold a single fiscal year 2002 Advanced Technology Program (ATP) competition. This single competition will continue ATP's practice of being open to all technology areas. ATP will begin accepting proposals on April 22, 2002.

ATP will group all proposals received by each of the specified due dates and review them as a group called a "batch". Since ATP has established three due dates for proposal submission in fiscal year 2002, there will be three batches. All hand-delivered or electronically submitted proposals must be received by 3:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on the specified dates below:

(a) Batch 1 - Monday, June 10, 2002
(b) Batch 2 - Wednesday, July 31, 2002
(c) Batch 3 - Monday, September 30, 2002

All other proposals must be postmarked on the specified due dates and received by 3:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on the specified dates below:

(a) Batch 1 - postmarked by Monday, June 10, 2002, and received by Monday, June 24, 2002
(b) Batch 2 - postmarked by Wednesday, July 31, 2002, and received by Wednesday, August 14, 2002
(c) Batch 3 - postmarked by Monday, September 30, 2002, and received by Tuesday, October 15, 2002

To be considered for funding in fiscal year 2002, potential proposers must submit their proposals by the first due date of June 10, 2002. Proposals submitted after June 10, 2002, may not be considered for funding in fiscal year 2002, but rather for funding in fiscal year 2003, subject to the availability of funding.

The following documents pertain to the Fical Year 2002 ATP competition, which closed September 30, 2002:

• Federal Register Announcement on Availability of Funds for a Competition
  
• ATP Proposal Preparation Kit (April 2002)
• Guidelines and Documentation Requirements for Research Involving Human and Animal Subjects (April 2002)
• ATP Electronic Submission System
  
• Streaming Video of Proposers' Conferences and Conference Slides