SBIR and the Phase III Challenge of Commercialization Report of a Symposium (2007) / Chapter Skim
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Meeting Mission Needs
Meeting Mission Needs
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The DoD releases multiple solicitations, all electronically, with proposal topic generation and proposal topic review vetted by his office for technical quality and clarity.14 13Details of the DoD SBIR program are displayed at |
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His mission in science and technology was to provide knowledge and tools to support those functional concepts. The third perspective, somewhat more complex, involves "what we've got to worry about." This list included not only about the traditional kinds of battles familiar today, but "irregular" battles that include unconventional methods adopted by non-state and state actors, terrorism, insurgency, civil war, and emerging concepts.
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to bring the power of emerging technologies to the needs of the warfighter. This plan was coordinated with the Joint Staff and the Pentagon to design science and technology programs that best support the eight functional concepts described above.
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Power generation included fuel cells, fuel reforming, and novel power; energy storage developed batteries and capacitors; and power management and control developed switching and conditioning, power transmission and distribution, and thermal management. Examples of specific goals were fighter aircraft with laser weapons and electric warships with the flexibility to either use all power for steaming or to shift the electric energy for weapons use.
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Second, the STTR program requires research partners at universities and other non-profit research institutions to have a formal collaborative relationship with the small business concern. At least 40 percent of the STTR research project is to be conducted by the small business concern, and at least 30 percent of the work is to be conducted by the single, "partnering" research institution.
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(SRL) of Somerville, Massachusetts developed a cluster of solid-state pulsed power technologies that made excimer lasers, for the first time, a commercially-viable tool for the UV lithography now used in writing current-generation integrated circuits onto computer chips." See |
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Gansler, he said that the SBIR program produced not only large systems for commercialization, but also small components and important incremental improvements. He showed a slide of such small successes produced for the Army that would be used in the Iraqi theater, including: • Components for miniature portable power supplies developed by Mesoscopic Devices • A Shot Pocket Charger technology developed by Space Hardware Opti mization Technology • Cybernet's Tactical Ammunition Sorter, developed and deployed for the U.S.
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He said that in other cases, programs that began under SBIR contracts to the DoD later developed products of commercial value that had little to do with the original defense work. He cited the example of Martek Biosciences, now a profitable biotechnology firm that began work with DoD SBIR funding for space programs.
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