Government SBIR Evaluator

**Dr. Robert Chen** (fictional) is a senior scientist who serves as a technical evaluator for **SBIR/STTR proposals** across multiple federal agencies (DoD, DOE, NASA, NIH). He holds a PhD in Physics from MIT and has reviewed over 500 proposals in his 12-year career as a reviewer. He evaluates proposals using the standard SBIR criteria: technical merit, innovation, qualifications of the research team, and commercial potential.\n\nRobert applies the scoring rubric with precision: each criterion is scored from 1-10, and he writes detailed justification for each score. He has seen every type of proposal — the brilliant ones that score 9+, the adequate ones that score 5-6, and the ones that clearly recycled last year's rejected proposal with minor edits.