UNCLASSIFIED ARMY Small Business Technology Transfer Program STTR

UNCLASSIFIED ARMY Small Business Technology Transfer Program (STTR) Dr. Brad Guay/Ms. Laura Younger STTR Program Office Phone: 919 -549 -4258 June 2015 Email: bradley. e. guay. civ@mail. mil Army Research Laboratory (ARL)/Army Research Office (ARO) The Nation’s Premier Laboratory for Land Forces UNCLASSIFIED

UNCLASSIFIED Agenda § § STTR Difference Topics 101 ARL/ARO Q&A UNCLASSIFIED The Nation’s Premier Laboratory for Land Forces

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UNCLASSIFIED STTR Purpose ü The statutory purpose of the STTR Program. . . ü Stimulate a partnership between innovative Small Business Concerns (SBCs) and Research Institutions through Federallyfunded research and development ü Requires each federal agency with an extramural for R&D over >$1 B to set-aside 0. 40% for Army STTR FY 15 = $21 M UNCLASSIFIED The Nation’s Premier Laboratory for Land Forces

UNCLASSIFIED Federal and Do. D STTR Programs Federal SBIR + STTR Programs Dept. of Energy Dept. of Health and Human Services Dept. of Defense National Aeronautics and Space Administration National Science Foundation Do. D STTR Programs Army ($23 M) Air Force ($38 M) Navy ($35 M) Missile Defense Agency ($9 M) UNCLASSIFIED Assistant Secretary of Defense (Research & Engineering, $6 M) Defense Health Program ($7 M) Joint Science & Technology Office CBD ($1. 8 M) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ($10 M) The Nation’s Premier Laboratory for Land Forces

UNCLASSIFIED STTR Eligibility Criteria Applicant is U. S. -owned Small Business Concern Formal Cooperative R&D Effort • Minimum 40% by small business • Minimum 30% by U. S. research institution U. S. Research Institution • College or university; other non-profit research organization; Federal R&D center Intellectual Property Agreement • Allocation of rights in IP and rights to carry out follow-on R&D and commercialization Award is always made to Small Business Concern (SBC) UNCLASSIFIED The Nation’s Premier Laboratory for Land Forces

UNCLASSIFIED SBIR/STTR Critical Differences Research Partner Principal Investigator (PI) SBIR: Permits partnering 33% Phase I and 50% Phase II SBIR: Primary (>50%) employment must be with small business concern STTR: Requires partnering with research institution. STTR: may be employed by either research institution (RI) or SBC, but. . . Primary employment , > 50% of PI time, must be with the SBC or RI at time of award and during project (STTR Policy Directive, 2012) SBC must have at least one employee. . . in management position. . . primary employment is with SBC and. . . not also employed by the RI (Do. D Solicitation) UNCLASSIFIED The Nation’s Premier Laboratory for Land Forces

UNCLASSIFIED RI Partnership Benefits STTR Extramural Benefits: Engaged: PI/co-PI, cf. , subcontractor Exports: ITAR and Citizenship expertise Employees: Test drive best and brightest Exposure: New “discoveries” Enduring: Long-term successful partnerships UNCLASSIFIED The Nation’s Premier Laboratory for Land Forces

UNCLASSIFIED Army STTR Program ”Typical Year - 2014” § § § § § UNCLASSIFIED $23 M (FY 14) 1 Solicitation per year 18 Topics Phase I: 38, max $150 K, 6 months Phase II: 39, max $1 M, 2 years 73 Businesses 58 University/RI NO CRP, Phase II Enhancement, 2 nd Phase II Technical Assistance Advocates (TAAs) 9 The Nation’s Premier Laboratory for Land Forces

UNCLASSIFIED Army Technical Assistance Advocates (TAAs) Ø Technology Transition Specialists Ø Strategically located at Labs/Centers/PEOs Ø https: //www. armysbir. army. mil/sbir/Technical. Assistance. aspx TAA Sites Hanover, NH Primary Sites Alternate Sites Warren, MI Natick, MA Picatinny Arsenal, NJ Aberdeen Proving Ground Edgewood, MD Adelphi Laboratory Center TAA #1 NSEDEC, PEO Soldier Fort Detrick, MD TAA #10 AMRDEC (M) PEO Missile SMDC TAA #2 ARDEC, PEO AMMO Redstone Arsenal TAA #3 TARDEC, PEO CS&CSS, PEO GCS UNCLASSIFIED TAA #4 CERDEC, ATEC, PEO C 3 T PEO EIS PEO IEW&S TAA #9 AMRDEC (A) PEO AVIATION TAA #5 ECBC, ERDC, PEO CBD TAA #6 MRMC, DHP TAA #8 ARL, ARO, STTC, PEO STRI The Nation’s Premier Laboratory for Land Forces

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UNCLASSIFIED S&T Performing Organizations: Who Writes Army Topics? Participating Organizations Personnel Medical Materiel ARI ARL TRADOC AMRDEC (A) PEOs/PMs AMRDEC (M) ARDEC LCMCs ATEC INSCOM CERDEC SOCOM ECBC DARPA ERDC AFRL MRMC NRL NSRDEC SMDC DOE STTC Industry TARDEC Academia PEO AMMO PEO AVIATION PEO C 3 T JPEO-CBD AMSA ARDE CERDE AMRD C EC C PEO CS&CSS A PEO EIS PEO GCS PEO IEW&S PEO M&S PEO SOLDIER ARO is ARL’s principal conduit PEO STRI G-1 MEDCO M AMC Infrastructure/ Environmental Space & Missile Defense Test & Evaluation USACE SMDC ATEC RDECOM SBIR Office John Smith FY 15. 1 A rm 89 SBIR y Topics = + 18 STT R ECBC NSRD EC STTC TARDE C ARL provides underpinning Science, Technology, and Analysis to the Army to engage and exploit the STTR Office external research community (principally, but not exclusively, universities) Brad Guay UNCLASSIFIED The Nation’s Premier Laboratory for Land Forces

UNCLASSIFIED Army STTR Topic Sources FY 11 -15 Topics Submitted (n=323) TARDE NSRDEC C 4% 7% MRMC 12% ERDC 2% ECBC 13% CERDEC 7% UNCLASSIFIED 9 Participating U. S. Army Organizations: § AMRDEC: Aviation and Missile AMRDEC (RDEC) 14% § ARDEC: Armament RDEC ARDEC § ARO/ARL: Army Research Office § CERDEC: Communication & 7% Electronics RDEC § ECBC: Edgewood Chemical Biological Center § ERDC: Engineer RDEC § MRMC: Medical Research & Materiel Command § NSRDEC: Natick Soldier RDEC [CATEGORY § TARDEC: Tank Automotive RDEC NAME]/ARL [PERCENTAGE ] The Nation’s Premier Laboratory for Land Forces

UNCLASSIFIED Funded Do. D Technology Areas FY 11 -15 Army STTR Topics 323 Topics Submitted 123 Topics Selected 90 80 Top Investments 70 1. Sensors, Electronics, & Electronic Warfare 60 2. Materials/Processes 3. Chemical Biological Defense No of Topics 50 4. Biomedical 40 5. Information Systems Technology 30 20 10 0 Space Platforms Technology UNCLASSIFIED Nuclear Technology Air Platforms Battlerspace Environment Weapons Ground & Sea Vehicles Human Systems Information Systems Technology Biomedical Chemical Biological Defense Materials / Processes Sensors, Electronics &Electronic Warfare The Nation’s Premier Laboratory for Land Forces

UNCLASSIFIED Do. D SBIR/STTR Chances of Success 54 60 49 51 Percentage (%) 50 41 40 22 30 st I o P se a Ph SBIR 16 STTR 20 10 0 Based on all Phase I and Phase II contracts derived from 1999 -2008 solicitations Phase III commercialization data as of April 2013 Phase II Phase(s) Phase III SBIR/STTR is a competitive process, but participants have reasonable success UNCLASSIFIED 15 The Nation’s Premier Laboratory for Land Forces

Do. D Phase I/II Evaluation Criteria: • The soundness, technical merit, and innovation. . • The qualifications of principal/key investigators et al. , . . . include ability to commercialize results • The potential for commercial (Government or private sector) application. .

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UNCLASSIFIED Do. D Basic Research Extramural Funding Agencies Department of Defense Department of the Army Office of the Secretary of Defense Department of the Navy Department of the Air Force Army Research Office (ARO) Office of Naval Research (ONR) Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) www. aro. army. mil www. onr. navy. mil www. afosr. af. mil www. darpa. mil Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (MRMC) Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) mrmc. amedd. army. mil www. dtra. mil UNCLASSIFIED The Nation’s Premier Laboratory for Land Forces

UNCLASSIFIED Connecting w/ ARO/ARL Search: Army Broad Agency Announcements SBIR Topic Idea: https: //www. armysbir. army. mil/Research. Topic/Default. aspx RESEARCH AREA a. MECHANICAL SCIENCES b. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES c. MATHEMATICS d. ELECTRONICS e. COMPUTING SCIENCES f. PHYSICS g. CHEMICAL SCIENCES h. LIFE SCIENCES i. MATERIALS SCIENCE j. NETWORK SCIENCE k. ARO SPECIAL PROGRAMS l. SHORT‐TERM INNOVATIVE RESEARCH (STIR) PROGRAM m. YOUNG INVESTIGATOR PROG (YIP) n. PRESIDENTIAL EARLY CAREER AWARD for S&E (PECASE) o. RESEARCH INSTRUMENTATION (RI) Technical POC: Name, Email, Phone UNCLASSIFIED ARO ARL/ARO BAA: http: //www. arl. army. mil/www/default. cfm? page=8 The Nation’s Premier Laboratory for Land Forces

UNCLASSIFIED ARL’s Science and Technology Campaign Framework Small Business Wanted! UNCLASSIFIED The Nation’s Premier Laboratory for Land Forces

UNCLASSIFIED Thank You! Helpful Websites § § § UNCLASSIFIED www. sbir. gov/about-sttr www. acq. osd. mil/osbp/sbir https: //sbir. defensebusiness. org/ www. armysbir. army. mil http: //www. arl. army. mil/ The Nation’s Premier Laboratory for Land Forces Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.