Tutorial 6: CONTRACTS VS GRANTS. The eleven agencies that participate in the SBIR and STTR programs make their awards either as grants or contracts. In 2015 the combined SBIR and STTR budget across all of the participating agencies was $2.5 billion dollars. Of that a little over half was provided to small businesses in the form of contracts; while the other half was provided as grants.
Trench warfare is a type of land warfare using occupied fighting lines consisting largely of trenches, in which troops are significantly protected from the enemy's small arms fire and are substantially sheltered from artillery. The most famous use of trench warfare is the Western Front in World War I.
World War I. World War I, also called First World War or Great War, trench warfare: British soldier in a trench on the Western Front, World War IHulton Archive/Getty Imagesan international conflict that in 1914â18 embroiled most of the nations of Europe along with Russia, the United States, the Middle East, and other regions.