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

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UNCLASSIFIED The Nations Premier Laboratory for Land Forces Agenda STTR Difference Topics 101 ARL/ARO Q&A STTR Difference Topics 101 ARL/ARO Q&A

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UNCLASSIFIED The Nations Premier Laboratory for Land Forces UNCLASSIFIED STTR Difference

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UNCLASSIFIED The Nations Premier Laboratory for Land Forces STTR Purpose The statutory purpose of the STTR Program... Stimulate a partnership between innovative Small Business Concerns (SBCs) and Research Institutions through Federally- funded research and development Requires each federal agency with an extramural for R&D over >$1B to set-aside 0.40% for Army STTR FY15 = $21M The statutory purpose of the STTR Program... Stimulate a partnership between innovative Small Business Concerns (SBCs) and Research Institutions through Federally- funded research and development Requires each federal agency with an extramural for R&D over >$1B to set-aside 0.40% for Army STTR FY15 = $21M

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UNCLASSIFIED The Nations Premier Laboratory for Land Forces Federal and DoD STTR Programs Dept. of Defense National Science Foundation Dept. of Health and Human Services Dept. of Energy National Aeronautics and Space Administration Navy ($35M ) Missile Defense Agency ($9M) Army ($23M) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ($10M) Air Force ($38M) Assistant Secretary of Defense (Research & Engineering, $6M) Defense Health Program ($7M) Federal SBIR + STTR Programs DoD STTR Programs Joint Science & Technology Office CBD ($1.8M)

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UNCLASSIFIED The Nations Premier Laboratory for Land Forces 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 Intellectual Property Agreement Allocation of rights in IP and rights to carry out follow-on R&D and commercialization U.S. Research Institution College or university; other non-profit research organization; Federal R&D center Award is always made to Small Business Concern (SBC)

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UNCLASSIFIED The Nations Premier Laboratory for Land Forces SBIR/STTR Critical Differences SBIR: Permits partnering 33% Phase I and 50% Phase II STTR: Requires partnering with research institution. SBIR: Primary (>50%) employment must be with small business concern 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 (DoD Solicitation) Research Partner Principal Investigator (PI)

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UNCLASSIFIED The Nations Premier Laboratory for Land Forces 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 RI Partnership Benefits

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UNCLASSIFIED The Nations Premier Laboratory for Land Forces Army STTR Program 9 Typical Year - 2014 $23M (FY14) 1 Solicitation per year 18 Topics Phase I: 38, max $150K, 6 months Phase II: 39, max $1M, 2 years 73 Businesses 58 University/RI NO CRP, Phase II Enhancement, 2 nd Phase II Technical Assistance Advocates (TAAs)

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UNCLASSIFIED The Nations Premier Laboratory for Land Forces TAA Sites Army Technical Assistance Advocates (TAAs) Primary Sites Alternate Sites Aberdeen Proving Ground Redstone Arsenal Adelphi Laboratory Center Fort Detrick, MD TAA #8 ARL, ARO,STTC, PEO STRI TAA #6 MRMC, DHP TAA #5 ECBC, ERDC, PEO CBD TAA #4 CERDEC, ATEC, PEO C3T PEO EIS PEO IEW&S TAA #3 TARDEC, PEO CS&CSS, PEO GCS TAA #3 TARDEC, PEO CS&CSS, PEO GCS TAA #1 NSEDEC, PEO Soldier TAA #2 ARDEC, PEO AMMO Technology Transition Specialists Strategically located at Labs/Centers/PEOs https://www.armysbir.army.mil/sbir/TechnicalAssistance.aspx Technology Transition Specialists Strategically located at Labs/Centers/PEOs https://www.armysbir.army.mil/sbir/TechnicalAssistance.aspx Warren, MI Natick, MA Picatinny Arsenal, NJ Edgewood, MD Hanover, NH TAA #9 AMRDEC (A) PEO AVIATION TAA #10 AMRDEC (M) PEO Missile SMDC

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UNCLASSIFIED The Nations Premier Laboratory for Land Forces UNCLASSIFIED Topics 101

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UNCLASSIFIED The Nations Premier Laboratory for Land Forces S&T Performing Organizations: Who Writes Army Topics? ARL provides underpinning Science, Technology, and Analysis to the Army RDECOM ECBC NSRDEC CERDEC TARDEC STTC ARDEC AMRDEC AMSAA SOCOM DARPA Materiel AMC Personnel G-1 Medical MEDCOM Infrastructure/ Environmental USACE Space & Missile Defense SMDC ATEC Test & Evaluation PEOs/PMs INSCOM AFRL NRL DOE Industry Academia TRADOC LCMCs ARO is ARLs principal conduit to engage and exploit the external research community (principally, but not exclusively, universities) SBIR Office John Smith Participating Organizations ARI ARL AMRDEC (A) AMRDEC (M) ARDEC ATEC CERDEC ECBC ERDC MRMC NSRDEC SMDC STTC TARDEC PEO AMMO PEO AVIATION PEO C3T JPEO-CBD PEO CS&CSS PEO EIS PEO GCS PEO IEW&S PEO M&S PEO SOLDIER PEO STRI STTR Office Brad Guay

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UNCLASSIFIED The Nations Premier Laboratory for Land Forces Army STTR Topic Sources 9 Participating U.S. Army Organizations : AMRDEC: Aviation and Missile (RDEC) ARDEC: Armament RDEC ARO/ARL: Army Research Office CERDEC: Communication & Electronics RDEC ECBC: Edgewood Chemical Biological Center ERDC: Engineer RDEC MRMC: Medical Research & Materiel Command NSRDEC: Natick Soldier RDEC TARDEC: Tank Automotive RDEC

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UNCLASSIFIED The Nations Premier Laboratory for Land Forces Funded DoD Technology Areas

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UNCLASSIFIED The Nations Premier Laboratory for Land Forces DoD SBIR/STTR Chances of Success 15 Based on all Phase I and Phase II contracts derived from 1999-2008 solicitations Phase III commercialization data as of April 2013 SBIR/STTR is a competitive process, but participants have reasonable success Post Phase I

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DoD 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 The Nations Premier Laboratory for Land Forces UNCLASSIFIED ARMY Research Lab/Office

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

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UNCLASSIFIED The Nations Premier Laboratory for Land Forces Search: Army Broad Agency Announcements ARO Technical POC: Name, Email, Phone Technical POC: Name, Email, Phone 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) Connecting w/ ARO/ARL SBIR Topic Idea: https://www.armysbir.army.mil/ResearchTopic/Default.aspx ARL/ARO BAA: http://www.arl.army.mil/www/default.cfm?page=8

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UNCLASSIFIED The Nations Premier Laboratory for Land Forces ARLs Science and Technology Campaign Framework Small Business Wanted!

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