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.
1 Which Battle Ended Germany's Hope of a Quick Victory on the Western Front?  The First World War in France and Belgium was characterized by the static warfare in the long trench system known as the Western Front. However, the first weeks of the war had seen large-scale movements of troops in both France and Belgium. The Western Front was the result of a series of battles in the fall of 1914, and by Christmas the positions of the trenches were more-or-less fixed for the next three years.