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Common Proposal Weaknesses: Technical

  • Lacks sufficient detail
    • How will you reach technical objectives?
    • What's innovative?
    • Why is a risky technical approach needed?
  • Unsupported assertions
  • Outside ATP mission
    • Low risk (e.g., product development)
    • Lacks demonstrated feasibility (e.g., basic research)
    • Scale-up or demo to only prove economically feasible
  • Lacks connection between technical goals and business opportunity

Date created: April 10, 2002
Last updated: March 28, 2005

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