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Office of Research and Technology Applications (ORTA)

Opportunities for Partnering with Opportunities for Partnering with US Joint Forces Command US Joint Forces Command

(USJFCOM)(USJFCOM)

Opportunities for Partnering with Opportunities for Partnering with US Joint Forces Command US Joint Forces Command

(USJFCOM)(USJFCOM)

Dr. Russell RichardsDr. Russell RichardsManager, Office of Research and Technology ApplicationsManager, Office of Research and Technology ApplicationsAugust 15, 2007August 15, 2007

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• USJFCOM Public Web Site

• Annual Industry Symposium

• Focused Forums

• Capability Presentations and Demonstrations

ORTA Coordinates

Industry Engagement

Mechanisms for Engaging w Industry

Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR)

• Contracts

• Broad Agency Announcements (BAA)

• Requests for Information (RFI)

• Unsolicited Proposals

JFCOM Contracting / Business Manager

We now have several mechanisms to facilitate the engagement of businesses (large and small) and universities with JFCOM.

Technology Transfer Authorities (ORTA)

• Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs)

• Education Partnership Agreements

• Commercial Test Agreements

• Personnel Exchanges

• Licensing Agreements

ORTA Manages

Small Business Innovation Research

(SBIR/STTR)

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Provide Value Added

Scope of Technology Transfer

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Needs

JFCOM

Industry; Academia; State & Local Gov’ts; Service, National, and

Other Labs

Partners

• Jt Context/CONOPs

• Refine Capabilities

• Systems Integration

• Test Interoperability

• Develop Prototypes

• Experimentation

• Evaluate Capabilities

• Doctrine & Training

Joint Operations

Capability TransitionInform

Partner and “Spin-On”

Determine what the warfighter needs; inform our partners; infuse their technologies and capabilities; partner with them

to make sure the capabilities meet the warfighter’s needs and transition capabilities to the warfighter

Complete Capability Package

Also, “Spin Off”

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Responding to Joint Warfighter Needs

Filter by JOE and USJFCOM

Core Competencies and Mission

Inputs

COCOM IPLs and Engagement

Lessons Learned

Technology

CHIO’s

JCA Prioritized Gaps

Prototypes, Concepts

Guidance (e.g., from President, SecDef, Chairman, DPG, QDR, Transformation Road Map)

Output

JFCOM Org HiPri’s; Lines of Operation

JFCOM High Priority

Capability Areas

Concise message to tell industry how you

can help us!

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Typical Capability Focus Areas

• Counter Improvised Explosive Devices (CIED) • Information Sharing, Information Security• Visualization Technologies• Interagency Coordination• Effects Based Planning; Decision Support• Database Integration, Knowledge Management • Joint Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance• Force and Materiel Tracking, Personnel Recovery• Modeling and Simulation• Joint Command & Control (Capability Portfolio Manager), Net Enabled Command & Control

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Engaging with Industry

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Process for Engaging with Industry

JFCOM Focused Forums, Industry Symposium, Web

Page, Announcements, Presentations, Engagement

Industry/Academia

“These are the problems that require your help.”

“We have a potential solution.”

Send email to [email protected]

Request Opportunity to Give Capability

Presentation or Demo

Abstract with Briefing or White Paper

Tasker to Determine

Interest

“Who is interested in a capability presentation?”

Hold capability presentation/demo;Discover promising

capabilities

Outcome?

“What is the capability? Who might be interested?”

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Industry Engagement

• Capability presentations• Capability demonstrations• Focused forums (select a single important

JFCOM need; inform industry; seek solutions)– Live events– Virtual (webcasts)

• Advantages: Provide greater reach, easier and more convenient for you, and less expensive to do.

• Annual NDIA/JFCOM Industry Symposium• FedBizOps, JFCOM Web Page• JFCOM Outreach

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Cooperative Research and Development Agreements

(CRADAs)

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What is a CRADA?

• USJFCOM partners with non-federal government organizations on research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E) efforts;

• CRADA authorization arises from a separate statute, so FAR procedures do not apply;– Several pieces of Congressional legislation to encourage

federal labs to partner with industry and academia– Stevenson-Wydler Act, Bayh-Dole Act, Tech Transfer Act

• CRADAs allow us to share risks and resources; should provide clear benefit to both JFCOM and the partner (“win/win”)

Cooperative Research & Development Agreement

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What is a CRADA? … cont’d

• USJFCOM cannot pay $$$ to partner or use contractor employees under contract to DOD, but we can provide other types of resources (technical and operational personnel, data, M&S tools, facilities, network access, evaluations, experimentation opportunities)

• CRADAs protect the intellectual property of our partners; trade secrets or confidential information supplied by a partner shall not be disclosed

• Partner gets right to patent inventions and may get an exclusive license to inventions in a specific negotiated field of endeavor under the CRADA efforts, but at a minimum the government gets a royalty-free license to inventions that are developed through the partnership

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Partnering for Success

JFCOM

PARTNER

CRADA

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Summary of Potential CRADA Partners

Hewlett Packard Lockheed SAIC

Honeywell Raytheon Alion/BMH

L-3 Communications Northrop Grumman Microsoft

Boeing Sun Microsystems NCOIC

IBM George Mason Univ General Dynamics

VMASC / Old Dom Univ BAE Systems MITRE

Intel Crisis Simulations Inc. JHU/APL

Trusted Comp Solns MAERSK Shipping CORMINE

State of Virginia Stanford University MIT

Raytheon SRC CISCO

Most major defense companies; some major non-defense IT companies; a few small businesses; and a few universities

Color Legend

Close; final review

Signed; executing

Proposals

Draft CRADA

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Why Do a CRADA with JFCOM?

• JFCOM is not a traditional Federal laboratory; we are first and foremost a combatant command whose main mission is transformation

• We do little research; more development (and integration); but significant test & experimentation

• Our partners are generally strong in R&D • Our strength is on the T&E part of RDT&E

– Examine how well capabilities integrate with other capabilities; test for interoperability

– Experiment to determine utility to the warfighter; provide feedback on what we like or don’t like; partner with you to “get it right”

• Plus – JFCOM rounds out the RDT&E with conops, training, and doctrine so that we provide a complete capability package to the warfighter

Good partnerships result when the partners complement each other; both partners benefit.

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Benefits to JFCOM

• Partners bring access to thousands of scientists and engineers

• Improve our standing with industry• CRADAs give us a chance to leverage work

our partners have already done– Reduces the resources that JFCOM will have to

provide– Reduces the amount of time required to

accomplish the projects– Reduces the risk– Improves the quality of the product

• Better, cheaper, faster, lower risk – not bad!

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Advantages to our Partners?

• Many different metrics of “Value”

• Access to JFCOM personnel; both technical and operational

• “Warfighter” feedback– What do they like?

– What needs to be improved?

– What is the utility?

• JFCOM support for the doctrine, training, TTPs

• Integration and interoperability testing

• Inclusion of capabilities in experiments and other events

• Access to JFCOM facilities, M&S tools, networks, databases, scenarios, and other resources

• Exposure beyond JFCOM

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Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)

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• A competitive 3-phase program addressing the research needs of government organizations

– Phase I: < $100K; 6 months feasibility study

– Phase II: < $750K for those that are selected; up to 2 years for prototype development

– Phase III: No SBIR funding; Other funding for commercialization or transition; non-monetary assistance from the government

• Targets small businesses (< 500 employees)

• Funding is awarded competitively (FAR applies), but process is streamlined

Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)

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Phase I SBIR from 2006.3

Title/Company Org Props AwardsSecure Dynamic Configuration of Real-Time Networks

JPRA 7 2

Architecture Technology Corp

Innovative Solutions Intl.

Automating the Production of Terrain Databases

JATTL 11 2

Sentinel AVE, LLC

TerraSim, Inc.

Next Generation Database Modeled on Human Neurological Processes

JTC-I 24 3

Physical Optics Corp

Applied Technical Systems Inc.

Infobionics, Inc.

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SBIR Programmatics

• JFCOM topics submitted as part of the Navy program in 2006

• A change in JFCOM R&D funding line from the Navy in 2006 to the Office of SecDef (OSD) in 2007 resulted in transition problems

• JFCOM attempting to resolve the problems• JFCOM is “exploring” its own SBIR program to give

us more flexibility to address the research problems important to us

• Our objective: – Submit 5-7 topics each year– Award 2-3 Phase I contracts for each topic– Compete the good ideas and down select to one Phase II award

for each topic

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Other ORTA Activities

• Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program– Similar to SBIR but for small businesses

partnered with universities or other research institutions (FFRDCs, not-for-profits)

• Education Partnership Agreement -- none yet but several discussions– ODU, Hampton U., William and Mary, ECPI

• Inventions, patents, trademarks, data rights, licenses (protecting JFCOM intellectual property); “spin off”

• Technology transfer training

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Concluding Comments

• JFCOM’s technology transfer authorities have enabled us to significantly improve our relationships with industry and academia– We are becoming more externally focused

– We are looking to find capabilities and experience that we can leverage before we undertake to build the capabilities ourselves

– We are becoming a better partner

• We value our partnerships with industry and academia

• Contact us at [email protected]

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Discussion

Contact: [email protected]

ORTA: [email protected]

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