Navy SBIR / STTR

The Department of the Navy is building its advantage through SBIR with a novel program that is simpler, faster, and more impactful. The NAVY Technology Acceleration effort will leverage small business to enable technology adoption at the pace of innovation.

NAVY Technology Acceleration topics feature:

• Simpler: Cuts proposal requirements 75% - from twenty pages to five
• Faster: Accelerates evaluation, selection, and payments - trims processing time by 2/3
• Impactful: Enables wider range of concepts from more innovators through broader topics
• Flexible: Matches pace of development using new contracting tools - awards in 30 days
• Decisive: In-person demonstration of Phase I feasibility for same-day Phase II award

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Be the next great high-tech company to partner with the U.S. Navy. The 19.3 SBIR BAA is open with NAVY Technology Acceleration topics in artificial intelligence/machine learning, autonomy, and training technologies.

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Complete BAA instructions and forms are available at:
sbir.defensebusiness.org/topics/instructions?solicitationId=130

 

DoD FY-2019.3 SBIR Broad Agency Announcement (BAA)

Now in Pre-release

Opens September 24, 2019   Closes October 23, 2019 8:00 PM ET

SYSCOM Topics MCSC 1 NAVAIR 10 NAVSEA 2 NAVFAC 1 NAVWAR 2 ONR 1 DIR-P2 3 Total 19

The DoD issued its 2019.3 SBIR BAA pre-release on August 23 2019, which opens to receive proposals on September 24, 2019, and closes October 23, 2019 at 8:00 PM ET.

This BAA is inclusive of 3 Technology Acceleration Topics, 12 Standard Topics phase I topics from 6 of the Navy's SYSCOMS, and 3 Direct to Phase II Topics.

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Complete BAA instructions and forms are available at:
sbir.defensebusiness.org/topics/instructions?solicitationId=130

Previous Navy SBIR/STTR solicitations/BAAs are available at navysbir.com/previous.htm

 

FY2019 BAA Schedule
Program	Pre-Release	Opens	Closes
DoD SBIR 2019.1	28-Nov-18	8-Jan-19	6-Feb-19
DoD STTR 2019.A	28-Nov-18	8-Jan-19	6-Feb-19
Navy SBIR NX19.1 Direct to Phase II	20-Mar-19	12-Apr-19	13-May-19
DoD SBIR 2019.2	2-May-19	31-May-19	1-July-19
DoD STTR 2019.B	2-May-19	31-May-19	1-July-19
DoD SBIR 2019.3	23-Aug-19	24-Sep-19	23-Oct-19
DoD STTR 2019.C	23-Aug-19	24-Sep-19	23-Oct-19
Previous Navy SBIR/STTR solicitations/BAAs are available at navysbir.com/previous.htm

 

Summer 2019 Navy Transitions Newsletter is Here!

The Summer 2019 Edition of the Navy's SBIR/STTR Transitions newsletter has just been released.

In this edition Bob Smith, Navy SBIR/STTR Director, gives you a heads up on major changes and new opportunities coming to you from the Navy's SBIR program.   [Read Excerpt..]

The Department of the Navy (DON) continues to seek ways to take the best and better to make the SBIR/STTR program faster, more agile and more impactful.

In fact, we are reengineering the whole program. We've got direction from leadership to have earlier decision points, to open the aperture to more ideas, and to have champions for your technology at the front end to make sure the right people are ready at the back end to catch it and see it to deployment. [close]

• Navy SBIR/STTR Director Discusses:
• Reengineering the Whole Program
• Simplifying & Speeding up the Process
• Inclusion of Out-of-Cycle Solicitations
• Evolution of STP & FST
• Other Articles include:
• Coverage of the 2019 Partnering Summit & FST
• Windlift's Renewable Energy Platform
• Virtual Transition Marketplace (VTM)
• and much more!

View/Download Your Copy Here (PDF Format)

 

NavalX Seaside Chat, Big Opportunities for Small Business

Bob Smith, Director, Navy SBIR/STTR programs, Emily Harman, Director of the Navy's Office of Small Business Programs, and Scott Bartlett, Director of the Navy's Rapid Innovation Fund (RIF) spoke at the recent NavalX Seaside Chat May 23, 2019.

The topic of the "chat" was Big Opportunities for Small Business, which aligns NavalX opportunities with SBIR/STTR companies looking to provide innovative solutions to the Navy's needs.   [Read more about NavyX... ]

NavalX (Naval Expeditions) is a new program to empower the Navy's work force with Agility Tools that enable bold flexibility and drive accelerated outcomes.

For Naval Innovators, NavalX empowers you with the information and relationships you need to immediately apply agility practices in your organization.

For Commercial Partners NavalX allows you to easily connect into an ecosystem of potential opportunities that includes investment, experimentation, and technology transfer.

In describing NavalX, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, James Geurts stated; NavalX will act as a point of contact for industry to find the appropriate offices and commands for technologies they want to introduce to the Navy.

You can visit the NavalX website at www.secnav.navy.mil/agility/Pages/default.aspx   [close]

 

ASN (RD&A) Geurts Issues Memo on Small Business Utilization for a Strategic Advantage

James Geurts, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development & Acquisition (ASN (RD&A)) brings to Naval warfighters his rich SOCOM experience in delivering innovation, faster, through new collaborations and inventive practices.

Mr. Geurts' most recent guidance to DoN acquisition teams on small business and SBIR/STTR conveys the imperative role Small Business play as DoN team members and their contribution to DoN's success in meeting the National Defense Strategy (NDS). As such, the instruction calls for Acquisition Commands and Program Executive Officers (PEOs) to prioritize utilization of Small Business and includes these critical SBIR/STTR points:

• DoN acquisition teams focus on reviewing and assessing SBIR/STTR capabilities in developing acquisition strategies - and such strategies should address incentives for SBIR/STTR use.
• Acquisition Commands and PEOs should leverage "agile, time-saving authorities" of the Phase III award process - without further competition - where this action meets performance and affordability mandates.
• The memo concludes with an emphatic challenge: "Enhanced implementation of the Small Business Program will require .changing the way we do acquisition."

View/Download Geurts Memo

 

National Economic Impact Report of the Navy
SBIR/STTR Program FY-2000-2013

The Department of the Navy (DON) SBIR/STTR leadership commissioned a study to measure commercialization and related economic impacts of nearly $2.3 billion in DON SBIR/STTR Phase II contractual investment over FY2000 - 2013.

During that period, DON SBIR/STTR made 2,734 separate Phase II awards to 1,199 small businesses in virtually every U.S. state. Some of the findings include: [read more...]

Commercialization results:

$7 billion in sales of new capabilities and products to the U.S. military

$14.2 billion in total sales of new products and services

64% of SBIR/STTR contracts with subsequent innovative technology sales

Other economic results, or impacts:

14,973 full-time jobs created per year with an average salary of $68,535

$44.3 billion in total economic output nationwide, in all 50 states

$22.2 billion in new wealth creation, or value added

$4.9 billion in new federal, state, and local tax revenues

$14.4 billion in labor income

97.4% of firms had fewer than 10 Phase II awards - a broadly democratic distribution [close]

The 6 page brochure can be downloaded below:

Navy-SBIR-Economic_Impact.pdf

 

Required Cyber Security Certification:
What You Need To Know

On November 4, 2010, the President signed Executive Order 13556, Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI). This established a government-wide CUI Program to standardize the way the Government (and Government contractors) will handle unclassified information that requires protection. The guiding document for this endeavor is NIST Special Publication 800-171.

Full compliance of NIST SP 800-171 is required no later than December 31, 2017. [read more...]

NIST SP 800-171 provides the minimum required cybersecurity standards to protect the confidentiality of CUI for Federal Agencies. The document contains specific security requirements that contractors must implement at contract award. Within 30 days of contract award, the contractor must notify the DoD CIO (osd.dibcsia@mail.mil) of any of the security requirements specified by NIST SP 800-171 that are not implemented at contract award.

Contractors may use subcontractors and/or outsource information technology requirements; but, they are responsible for ensuring that these entities meet the cybersecurity standards.

For more information go to:
nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.SP.800-171.pdf to download your copy of the NIST SP-800-171 document and
business.defense.gov/Portals/57/Documents/Cybersecurity.pdf for a DoD presentation on Protecting DoD Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI).
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