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Dan Bernard

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

UNITED STATES SPECIAL OPERATIONS COMMAND

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• USSOCOM’s Science and Technology Directorate conducts TE events throughout the year to rapidly assess technology maturity based on USSOCOM Components / Theater Special Operations Commands (TSOCs) and PEO’s identified areas of need

• Typically, three annual events are held at various installations in CONUS and each have operational themes to capture broad technology areas of interes t

Technical Experimentation (TE)

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Participation and Scope

• Participants at the TE events include: SOF operators, Government technology subject matter experts, and technology developers — including industry, academia, and research labs

• Observers at TE events may be DoD and Other Government Agencies

• A typical TE event features approximately 45 separate experiments

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Payoff• For participating technology developers:

– Interact with SOF operators in a field environment– Identify solutions to high-priority SOF needs– Assess the maturity or potential military applicati on of a wide

variety of technologies– Collaborate with other developers

• For observers:– Provides an opportunity to discover

new and innovative technical solutions

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Assessment Levels

• Demonstration : Technologies are demonstrated using tabletop or field conditions methods. Tech developers receive on-site verbal feedback from users or Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and a brief written assessment of the technology after the conclusion of the event.

• User Evaluation : Technologies are demonstrated using tabletop or field conditions methods. Users or SMEs may take possession of the technology to conduct more detailed assessment. Tech developers receive on-site verbal feedback from users or SMEs and a brief written assessment of the technology after the conclusion of the event.

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Upcoming Events

• TE 16-1, 30 Nov – 4 Dec 2015, NFSTC, Largo, Florida– Experimentation Focus: Combat Medical/Sensitive Site Exploitation – Approximately 37 Experiments

• TE 16-2, 7-11 March 2016, Camp Roberts, California– Experimentation Focus: C4 / Mobility

• TE 16-3, 11-15 July 2016, Muscatatuck/Camp Atterbur y, Indiana– Experimentation Focus: Urban/Unconventional Warfare

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UNCLASSIFIEDFY16 Technical Experimentation Planning Dates

Event # RFI

to KO

RFI

Open

RFI Close Cliff

Notes

Done

NLT

Vote

period

Vote

Due

Compile

votes

Notify

Vendors

Sked

Out

Event Dates Event

Loc.

Theme

16-1 7/31 8/28 09/28 10/1 10/2-

10/23

10/23 10/23-10/26 10/26-

10/28

Week

of 2

Nov

11/30-12/4 FL Med/SSE

16-2 9/30 10/30 11/30 12/4 12/8-

01/08

1/8 1/11-1/14 1/15-

1/16

Week

of 26

Jan

7-11 Mar CA C4/Mob

16-3 2/11 3/11 4/12 4/15 4/18-

5/18

5/18 5/18-5/20 5/23-24 Week

of 6

June

11-15 July IN UW/Urban/E

TC

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• TE USSOCOM Public Link:

http://www.socom.mil/sordac/Pages/ExpWithUS.aspx

• TE Links

Additional Information

− Facebook : www.facebook,com/SOCOMTE− LinkedIn : www.tinyurl.com/LinkedIn-SOCOMTE − Twitter : www.twitter.com/SOCOMTE

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TE Homepage

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