About
Bridging Innovation
Building Pathways to Discover, Accelerate, and Deliver Innovation from Nontraditional Sources to Solve National Problems
Our Framework
Define
Frame and evaluate gap
Formulate rapid transition strategy
Identify funding sources and engagement model
Share challenge statement and execute next steps
Immerse
Cultivate community relationships in key locations
Build understanding of technology landscape
Identify dual-use technologies of general interest to sponsors
Scout & Match
Define and share sponsor challenges
Establish a comprehensive transition path
Assemble a list of companies and evaluate potential solutions
Incubate
Apply our deep technical and domain knowledge
Provide support with state-of-the-art facilities
Partner on collaborative research and challenges
Transition
Deliver capabilities rapidly through streamlined contracting
How We work
Bridging Innovation leverages Engagement Leads to cultivate relationships and execute the
Bridging Innovation framework.
Our Engagement Leads exhibit the values required to drive innovative thinking and build a high trust team. Their breadth of understanding our sponsor needs and knowledge navigating the government space has been invaluable to the success of bridging innovations spanning defense, health, climate, and more. Bridging Innovation would not be possible without their dedication and tenacity.
“Bridging Innovation has shown that no one company can solve these things on their own. How might we push the boundaries or get exponential improvement by leveraging multiple diverse companies?”
“MITRE’s Bridging Innovation has put us in a position to really help startup companies. Their CEOs are very enthusiastic. They know most of the capability need, but MITRE can help them with technical requirements, standards, the gap between the state-of-the-technology and our government sponsors’ need, and the technical approach.”