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Diffraction, Ltd

VT · SBIR awardee across 3 federal programs (DoD, NASA, NSF), first award 1996.

14SBIR awards

$4MSBIR $

11 → 3Phase I → II

$0Follow-on federal $

0Follow-on contracts

SBIR awards by program

Program	Awards	SBIR $	Phase I	Phase II
DoD	9	$3M	7	2
NASA	4	$739,996	3	1
NSF	1	$100,000	1	0

Mission areas

Air Force
Army
Navy
Office for Chemical and Biological Defense
Special Operations Command
Human Spaceflight & Life Support
Materials & Manufacturing
Photonics & Sensors

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Data: SBIR.gov award records + USAspending.gov prime contracts, matched by recipient name. Follow-on dollars are association, not causation — they show where this firm's later federal prime-contract dollars landed, not that SBIR work caused them. Methodology