MD.MFP Dual Use Technology Briefing Larry Herriman, Assistant Executive Director of the Macomb-OU INCubator Director of the Michigan DARPA Matching Funds Program April 10, 2013
MD.MFP DARPA Organizational Overview 2
MD.MFP What is DARPA? The “gist” • The “technical” • The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Prevent strategic (DARPA) was established in 1958 to prevent strategic surprise surprise from negatively impacting U.S. national security and, and create strategic surprise for U.S. adversaries by maintaining the technological superiority of the U.S. Create strategic military. surprise ( http://www.darpa.mil/our_work/) • As the Department of Defense’s (DoD) primary innovation DoD’s “Innovation Engine” engine, DARPA undertakes projects that are finite in duration but that create lasting revolutionary change. (Doing Business with DARPA) 3
MD.MFP DARPA’s Mission • DARPA’s primary mission is to foster advanced Foster advanced technologies and systems that create “revolutionary” technologies advantages for the U.S. military. Consistent with this Create “ revolutionary mission, DARPA is independent from the military services advantage” and pursues higher-risk research and development (R&D) projects with the aim of achieving higher-payoff results Higher risk, higher than those obtained from more incremental R&D. Thus, payoff R&D DARPA program managers are encouraged to challenge Seek results, not existing approaches and to seek results rather than just explore ideas explore ideas. Hence, in addition to supporting technology and component development, DARPA has funded the “Disruptive capabilities” integration of large- scale “systems of systems” in order to demonstrate what we call today “disruptive capabilities.” ( http://www.darpa.mil/our_work/) 4
MD.MFP How DARPA’s Achieves Its Mission? • To fulfill its mission, the Agency relies on diverse Relies on others to performers to apply multi-disciplinary approaches to both advance knowledge advance knowledge through basic research and create innovative technologies that address current practical through Basic and Applied Research problems through applied research. DARPA’s scientific investigations span the gamut from laboratory efforts to the creation of full-scale technology demonstrations in the Projects are: fields of biology, medicine, computer science, chemistry, physics, engineering, mathematics, material sciences, A) Finite in term social sciences, neurosciences and more. As the DoD’s B) Typically create primary innovation engine, DARPA undertakes projects “Revolutionary that are finite in duration but that create lasting Change” revolutionary change. ( http://www.darpa.mil/our_work/) 5
MD.MFP The DARPA Organizational Model • Underlying this “high -risk – high- payoff” motif of DARPA is a set of operational and organizational characteristics DAPRA is: including: relatively small size; a lean, non-bureaucratic structure; a focus on potentially change-state Small in size, lean, technologies; and a highly flexible and adaptive research non-bureaucratic, program. What is important to understand at the outset is highly-flexible, that in contrast to the then-existing defense research adaptable environment, ARPA was designed to be manifestly “Explicitly chartered different. It did not have labs. It did not focus on existing to be different” military requirements. It was separate from any other op- erational or organizational elements. It was explicitly to do “fundamentally chartered to be different, so it could do fundamentally different things” different things than had been done by the military service R&D organizations. (50 Years of Bridging the Gap, Fifty years of Innovation and Discovery Intro by Dr. Richard Van Atta) 6
MD.MFP DARPA Offices • Adaptive Execution Office (AEO) • Defense Sciences Office (DSO) • Information Innovation Office (I2O) • Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) • Strategic Technology Office (STO) • Tactical Technology Office (TTO) 7
MD.MFP DAPRA’s Solicitation Process • DARPA prefers you submit your ideas and/or concepts to a: Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) • Determine which technology office fits your idea best • Looks for BAAs that fit your concept • BAAs are typically specific • However, each office has one “Office - wide” BAA • Office-wide BAAs serve to capture ideas that do not fall within the other more specific BAAs 8
MD.MFP DAPRA’s Statement Re: Its Solicitation Process DARPA encourages you to submit proposals in response to advertised needs in lieu of submitting unsolicited proposals 9
MD.MFP Michigan’s Call for Entrepreneurial Service Providers 10
MD.MFP The State of Michigan - Michigan Strategic Fund • Public Act 215 of 2005, Section 88k(2) allows the State can award Strategic Economic Investment and grant and loans for Commercialization (“SEIC”) Board to award grants basic/applied and loans from the 21st Century Jobs Fund for “ … research… basic research, applied research, university technology transfer and commercialization of university technology transfer and products, processes and services to encourage the commercialization… development of competitive-edge technologies to create jobs in the state.” Under Executive Order to create jobs in the 2010-8, the Governor ordered the SEIC Board state abolished and all powers, duties and functions of the SEIC Board transferred to the Michigan Strategic Fund (“MSF”) 11
MD.MFP MSF – Entrepreneurial Service Providers • Through the Entrepreneurial Service Provider (ESP) MSF allocated Request for Proposals (RFP), the MSF Board $5.25 million over desires to allocate up to $5.25 million (“Award three years… Amount”), disbursed over up to 3 years, to non- profit organizations and universities that provide to provide specialized specialized support services to assist companies support services … and institutions in commercializing competitive-edge technologies, building successful, innovative to create a culture of entrepreneurship in businesses with the potential for high-growth and Michigan job retention and promoting a culture of entrepreneurship in Michigan. 12
MD.MFP Three Sections of the ESP Solicitation • Of the $5.25 million: $3.25M for Federal • $1.5 million - First Customer Program Grant Matching Programs • $500k - Industry Consortium Programs • $3.25 million - Federal Grant Matching Funds • Of the $3.25 million - Federal Grant $1.5M for ARPA-E and Matching Funds: DAPRA • $1.75 million – SBIR/STTR Matching Program • $1.5 million – ARPA-E and DARPA Matching Programs 13
MD.MFP Entrepreneurial Service Provider - DARPA • The Michigan Strategic Fund (MSF) via the Macomb-OU Michigan Economic Development Corporation INCubator’s proposal (MEDC) selected the Macomb-Oakland University was approved for Incubator (Mac-OU INC) to administer the Defense $766,036 Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Federal Matching Program for the entire State of Michigan. to increase federally • The primary objective of the program is to increase sponsored R&D that comes to Michigan the amount of federally sponsored (DARPA) research and development funding that comes into Michigan. 14
MD.MFP Michigan DARPA Program Project Initiatives (3) 15
MD.MFP Three Project Initiatives Increase DARPA Awareness Support DARPA Challenges Match DARPA Awards 16
MD.MFP Project Initiative #1 • Build-on/expand the exposure of DARPA program to the entire state Increase awareness of DAPRA by educating and training interested within the state companies/academic institutions about the DARPA program (at least twice a year) Increase DARPA Awareness 17
MD.MFP Project Initiative #2 • Award support funding to sponsor encourage and support teams that are interested in participation in DARPA challenges competing in a DARPA Challenge Support DARPA Challenges 18
MD.MFP Project Initiative #3 • Support DARPA awarded Resemble Michigan’s Emerging organizations with a state match Technologies Fund (ETF) fund program (utilizing $350,000 with Approximately 50% a capped match) of award funding for the pool Match DARPA Awards 19
MD.MFP Key Program Notes • Contract with State - just finalized in March 2013 • Program to launch in mid-to-late April 2013 • The program and its project initiatives are designed to “grow” – many upfront unknowns • Will start by being flexible, stricter as needed • Will utilize a decision committee of subject matter experts (SMEs) • Will utilize a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) section to keep communication current • Will use a Program Eligibility, Guidelines and Policies document to address program evolution items 20
MD.MFP www.michigandarpa.org 21
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