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.
Historically, Sir Douglas Haigâs British Spring Offensive of 1917 was known as the âFirst and Second Battles of the Scarpeâ but more chillingly referred to by Captain Cyril Falls, the British Official Historian, as the most âsavage infantry battle of the war.â It is more commonly known today as the Battle of Arras 1917.