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.
In the wake of the Battle of the Marneâduring which Allied troops halted the steady German push through Belgium and France that had proceeded over the first month of World War Iâa conflict both sides had expected to be short and decisive turns longer and bloodier, as Allied and German forces begin digging the first trenches on the Western Front on September 15, 1914.