New Mexico’s national labs are committed to helping businesses in the state through the New Mexico Small Business Assistance (NMSBA) Program. NMSBA is a statewide initiative that connects eligible small businesses with experts at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories for specialized support from scientists and engineers to help solve technical challenges, improve products, strengthen operations, and accelerate growth. Business owners interested in learning more about the NMSBA Program can attend an in-person meeting at The BioScience Center in Albuquerque at 11:30 am on Wednesday, May 13, 2026.
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NMSBA Program Improves Production
FreshPure Waters was founded to replace single-use plastic water bottles by providing consumers with a more eco-friendly refillable bulk water option. Its system specializes in high-pH alkaline, reverse osmosis, and deionized water, all in one machine. However, the rapidly growing demand for its purified water systems outpaced its production capabilities.
FreshPure Waters applied for assistance through the New Mexico Small Business Assistance (NMSBA) Program, a unique opportunity that brings the technology and expertise of New Mexico’s national laboratories and their partners to solve problems that inhibit business growth.
The NMSBA Program paired FreshPure Waters with Wesley Eccles and Jeff Abrams, directors at New Mexico Manufacturing Extension Partnership (New Mexico MEP), to lead the initiative to optimize production, improve system maintenance, and expand market reach.
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New Mexico offers an abundance of resources to help new and established businesses reach their goals. Many will be on display at an expo-style event on August 29, 2025, in Santa Fe. The event is open to the public, and participants are encouraged to walk around, meet institutional representatives at their tables, and engage in informal conversations about available resources and potential partnerships.
Continue readingProgram Pairs Businesses with Unique Expertise
The New Mexico Small Business Assistance Program was enabled by state legislation to bring the “technology and expertise of the national laboratories to small businesses in New Mexico to promote economic development in the state…” In exchange for a tax credit, New Mexico’s national laboratories and their partners work one-on-one with small businesses and entrepreneurs to solve problems that are often seen as roadblocks to business growth. NMSBA Program assistance ranges from product analysis and testing to inventory and manufacturing management, with myriad others in between. Businesses can learn about the program at an event in Santa Fe from 2:00 to 4:00 pm on May 20, 2025.
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The New Mexico Small Business Assistance (NMSBA) Program provides New Mexico small businesses facing technical challenges access to the unique expertise and capabilities of Los Alamos and Sandia national laboratories and their partners. At no cost to the business, small businesses can seek assistance from lab scientists and engineers to solve challenges and overcome barriers to company success. Think your technical challenges are too small for our labs? Think again!
Continue readingNMSBA Program Accepting Applications for Leveraged Projects
The NMSBA program allows Los Alamos and Sandia national laboratories to apply their unique expertise and capabilities to help for-profit, New Mexico small businesses solve critical challenges. Technical assistance is provided at no cost to the businesses and is rendered in the form of laboratory staff time and incidental materials.
Continue readingBusinesses Have Until Feb. 9 to Apply for NMSBA Leveraged Assistance
New Mexico businesses facing a shared challenge have until Feb. 9, 2023, to apply together for a New Mexico Small Business Assistance (NMSBA) Program leveraged projects award of up to $120,000 in national laboratory services.
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Applications are now being accepted by the New Mexico Small Business Assistance (NMSBA) Program, which provides New Mexico small businesses facing technical challenges access to the unique expertise and capabilities of Los Alamos and Sandia national laboratories. At no cost to the business, small businesses can seek assistance from lab scientists and engineers to solve challenges and overcome barriers to company success.
Continue readingNMSBA Program Demystified
Northern New Mexico business owners can learn about the New Mexico Small Business Assistance Program (NMSBA) on December 14 at Project Y in Los Alamos. The event is one of many that have taken place across the state this year and that will continue into 2022. NMSBA program managers provide details about the free business assistance that ranges from testing, research, and development of new products and technologies to manufacturing advice provided by scientists at New Mexico’s national laboratories and NMSBA partner organizations.
Continue readingSoil-to-Stone Technology Proves Breakthrough With Help from NMSBA Program
A Santa Fe company is looking to nature for solutions to crumbling roads and uranium mines that were abandoned without proper capping.
Bob Sherwin, CEO of Lithified Technologies, developed accelerated lithification technology, or LithTec™, to mimic the process by which soil turns into stone over thousands of years. LithTec™ can be used to build roads that last longer and cost much less to build and maintain than roads built with traditional methods, Sherwin said.
Road base treated with LithTec™ turns into a rock-hard, water-resistant foundation in just 24 hours. The same technology, he said, can solve serious problems associated with poorly sealed uranium mines.
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