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Industry partnership advances additive manufacturing for acoustic transducers
THE CHALLENGE Compact and autonomous underwater sensing platforms rely on acoustic transducers for transmitting and receiving signals in marine environments. These systems may be constrained to battery power and thus critically limited by less efficient or sensitive...
The U.S. Air Force Lab with MassChallenge selects inaugural cohort
The first 10 startups to participate in The U.S. Air Force Lab with MassChallenge, a two-year pilot project designed to increase non-traditional participation in Small Business Innovative Research program opportunities, were selected April 24. Airgility, Inc.;...
Health Guidelines for 3D Printing Medical Devices and Personal Protective Equipment During COVID-19 Response
Note: The guidelines in this paper are targeted to the Maker Community. We will shortly publish a companion piece that is directed at the users of 3D printed equipment to help them determine how to make the best use of the equipment and assess its effectiveness. We...
Cultivating an Innovation Culture through Virtual Challenge Statement Workshop
The COVID-19 pandemic is changing the nature of the way we work, but not our ability to deliver value to our sponsors. Originally slated to be an in-person half day workshop, the Innovation Toolkit (ITK), Bridging Innovation, and MITRE’s Air Force Cyber Operations...
COVID-19 Acquisition/Contracting
MITRE’s Acquisition in the Digital Age (AiDA) team curated a COVID-19 page on our AiDA website focused on Acquisition and Contracting for government COVID-19 response. Content includes contracting strategies and flexibilities leveraging both existing authorities, and...
Open Source for Personal Protective Equipment
According to the CDC, COVID-19 is believed to be spread mainly from person-to-person, “through respiratory droplets produced when an infected person coughs or sneezes." In order to safely treat patients, healthcare personnel must don appropriate Personal Protective...
Ventilator Project at MassRobotics
COVID-19 targets the lungs causing respiratory illness with, in severe cases, complications like pneumonia and acute respiratory distress syndrome. Severe cases will require a ventilator to be able to deliver enough oxygen into the lungs to the rest of the body. ...
MassChallenge Seeks Ocean Tech Startups for RI “BlueTech Track”
"As someone who spends quite a bit of time both in a lab and on a boat off Narragansett Bay researching undersea technologies, I’m delighted that MITRE is teaming up with MassChallenge to launch their “Bluetech Track.” This is an exciting opportunity for entrepreneurs...
Accelerating Startups in Texas
The MITRE Air Force Cyber Operations Portfolio, in collaboration with Bridging Innovation, is working with MassChallenge Texas to help shape and scope their next accelerator program in San Antonio. In late January, MassChallenge Texas, which manages established...
Piloting a Patient Data Use Agreement in the MassChallenge HealthTech Program
As more health and health care goes digital, patients are navigating how to access and use their data in unprecedented ways. While the technology is moving quickly to meet patient needs, the legal aspects associated with individual data ownership are still developing....
MassRobotics Celebrates New Expanded Hub for Startup Innovation
It was standing room only as media, dignitaries, tech luminaries, and AI-enabled droids gathered for the official opening of MassRobotics' new 25,000 square-foot laboratory, demonstration, and event space in Boston’s Seaport Innovation District. Boston Mayor Marty...
Collaborative Research Detecting Space Objects
As space has become more congested and rival nations develop weapons to target U.S. satellites, MITRE is partnering with innovative solutions to improve the U.S. space domain awareness by identifying, characterizing, and understanding any factor, passive or active,...
AFWERX Challenge – 2D to 3D Designs for Additive Manufacturing
AFWERX Vegas hosted the 2D to 3D Designs for Additive Manufacturing Challenge Definition Workshop on January 22-23. The event was designed to bring subject matter experts in additive manufacturing (AM) from industry, academia, military, and government organizations to...
Air Force Accelerator Powered by Techstars Proudly Announces Class of 2020
Jan 23, 2020 Hot on the heels of a powerhouse 2019 program, Techstars, the U.S. Air Force, NSIN, and BAE Systems FAST Labs, are delighted to announce the 2020 class of the Air Force Accelerator Powered by Techstars. In 2018 the program launched with the goal of...
Meet MITRE, the Nonprofit Bridging Startups and Government
January 23, 2020 A Bedford-based nonprofit, MITRE, is the powerhouse behind a new initiative called Bridging Innovation, designed specifically to play matchmaker between startups and government agencies. For the program, MITRE has partnered with essentially all of...
Army in midst of using pitch days to bring in nontraditional companies and technologies
The Army is in the midst of its fourth competition to bring in small and nontraditional businesses with beneficial technologies to the service that may not work with the government in other circumstances. The Army’s acquisition office set up xTechSearch in 2018....
Joint Pitch Day & AFWERX Open Topics: Driving a Culture of Innovation in the AF Cyber Operations Portfolio
MITRE Phase I evaluators: Jon Salisbury, Stephen Dillon, Keith Miller, and Adam Bairos. Not pictured: Christian Fiore, David Long, and Jeff Smith Technology is accelerating at an ever-increasing pace and is more widely accessible than ever before. This creates...
Air Force SBIR Open Topics and Focus Areas
Through a competitive awards-based program, the Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR) program enables small businesses to explore their technological potential and provides the incentive to profit from its commercialization. AFWERX, in partnership with Air...
Navy releases SBIR /STTR Topics
The Navy is presenting a preview of its topics to be included in the upcoming DoD 20.1 SBIR BAA and the 20.A STTR BAA. Both will officially open on 1/14/20 and close 2/12/20. Navy 20.1 SBIR Topics Preview The Navy is presenting a preview of its topics to be included...
Fires Support Next (FSN) Needs Statement for Rapid Reaction Technology Office (RRTO)- deadline 24 January
The Department of Defense’s (DoD) Rapid Reaction Technology Office (RRTO) will conduct a Solutions Meeting on behalf of the Assistant Director of Autonomy within the Undersecretary of Defense for Research & Engineering (USD(R&E)) in Spring 2020 in McLean, VA....