Training
Phase I training Pilot Program
The DARPA Small Business Programs Office conducted a pilot program in 2011 to provide training to small businesses with active DARPA SBIR Phase I contracts from the 10.2 and 10.3 Solicitations. The material from these workshops can be found below and include a video recording of each webinar and individual presentations from the speakers.
Workshop 3 Wednesday, May 15, 2012 (View Webinar Recording)
- FED and DARPA SBPO: Opening Remarks
- August Capital: Private Funding as a Financing Option to Commercializing Technology
- FED: Optimizing Commercial Success
- King and Spalding: Role of Intellectual Property in Commercializing Technology
- Department of Commerce, Business USA: Commercialization Resources and Support for Small Business
- AFrame Digital: DARPA SBIR Commercialization Success Case Study: MobileCareT Monitor
- FED and DARPA SBPO: Closing Remarks
Workshop 2: Wednesday, 15 June 2011 (View/Download Webinar Recording)
- Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA): An Overview of the DCAA Audit Process for Small Businesses (Download .pdf)
- SPAWAR: An Overview of the DoD Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Process (DIACAP) (Download .pdf)
- DARPA: Data Rights and IP (Download .pdf)
Workshop 1: Wednesday, 4 May 2011 (View/Download Webinar Recording)
- Defense Acquisition University (DAU): An Overview of the DoD Systems Acquisition Process (Download .pdf)
- Defense Acquisition University (DAU): An Overview of the Transition of Technology into the DoD Acquisition Process (Download .pdf)
- U.S. Army: Defense Contracting Alternatives for Small Business Innovators (Download .pdf)
- Frost & Sullivan: DARPA SBIR Support for Market and Competition Research Using Frost & Sullivan Information Portal (Download .pdf) (The Phase I training described in this presentation has concluded. The www.frost.com Portal referenced here is no longer active.)
Tools
DARPA Small Business Planning Tool (SBPT)-Web Tool Providing Framework, Checklists, and Reports
This is a self-assessment tool to help your company define or refine your commercialization strategy, assess the status of your current transition plan, and prioritize the important next steps to transition the technology/component/product you are developing into DoD and other federal and commercial markets.
Other
Navy Transitions Newsletter
- Dr. Killion Becomes Transition Director at ONR
- Highlights from the Navy Opportunity Forum
- Success Story – Ocean Power Technologies
- The Transition Relay
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education
- Maker Faire: A two-day, family-friendly festival of invention, creativity and resourcefulness, and a celebration of the Maker movement.
- Fab Labs: Enables people to use technology to create, experiment and produce, shifting the paradigm away from people merely “consuming” technology toward using technology to create solutions.
- Tech Shop: Workshop that access to tools and equipment, instruction, and a community of creative and supportive people so they can build the things they have always wanted to make.
U.S. Small Business Administration Bulletin
National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP)
MEP Brochure
Intellectual Property Webinar Series hosted by NIST MEP
- June 13 - Patents 101 Topics
- July 11 - Securing a Patent and AIA Implementation Topics
- August 8 – Intellectual Property, non-patented Topics
- September 12 – Researcher’s Life After Invention Disclosure Topics
- October 10 – Working with a Patent Attorney/Agent and USPTO Topics
- November 14 - Patent Trial and Appeal Board Topics
- December 12 – Protecting IP in Global Markets
- January 9, 2013 - Picking the Right Global Markets Topics