Jeff Barta

Jeff is CFI’s Project RuralReach Program Manager and SBIR Specialist. He usually spends his day engaging with people across the UAS sector to facilitate the completion of use tests and flight demonstrations specific to a grant that CFI is working on. As an SBIR Specialist, he also helps startups and entrepreneurs navigate federal funding opportunities, guiding them through proposal development, compliance, and commercialization strategies to bring innovative ideas to market.

He is a lifelong resident of ND and claims Michigan, ND as his hometown, and has called Grand Forks home since 1984.

jeff.b@innovatos.net | 701.777.6734