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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....
MassChallenge HealthTech Announces 2020 Cohort of Top Digital Health Startups
(Boston) - MassChallenge, a global network of zero-equity startup accelerators, today announced that 27 digital health startups will join the 2020 MassChallenge HealthTech cohort. The 27 startups represent some of the world’s most innovative technologies to...
Catalyst Space Accelerator Tackles Next Problem: Data Fusion with Space Application
Colorado Springs, CO, Dec. 09, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Catalyst Space Accelerator (CSA) just announced the companies who will come together for three months of training, customer discovery, and networking in its fifth Accelerator session: Data Fusion for Space...
USAF Pitch Bowl Planned for March
The Air Force is gearing up to host its inaugural “Pitch Bowl” in March 2020, an event that will bring together the best ideas from the growing pool of Pitch Days where companies try to snag a military contract without the years-long wait of traditional procurement....
Tech Startups, Small Businesses Present Technologies to the Air Force at the Catalyst Space Accelerator Demo Day
Colorado Springs, CO, Nov. 26, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Last Thursday, the Catalyst Space Accelerator (CSA) program successfully concluded its fourth Accelerator with its eight companies pitching their space-based Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR)...
How San Antonio is Building a Startup Culture
At City Summit 2018, 50 cities committed to new initiatives to support their innovation economies. NLC’s City Innovation Ecosystems program collects and tracks these commitments in order to showcase successes, identify best practices and connect peer cities who can...
The Entrepreneurs Center lands $10.8M to support startups
State nearly doubles the region’s funding to invest in high-tech companies The Ohio Third Frontier Commission has awarded The Entrepreneurs Center $10.8M to expand support for innovative entrepreneurs driving Dayton’s thriving startup scene. The Entrepreneurs Center...
Voxel8 Returns to 3D Print Shoe Uppers
Voxel8 Returns to 3D Print Shoe Uppers In 2015, a startup called Voxel8 wowed attendees at CES in Las Vegas with a desktop 3D printer capable of 3D printing electronic circuits into thermoplastic parts. The firm demoed its Developer’s Kit system by fabricating a...
MassRobotics Bi-Annual Startup Demo Night
The MassRobotics bi-annual Investor Demo Day was held November 18th. The by-invitation only demo events introduce the residents and local robotics startups to MassRobotic partners and the investment community. One of the values they provide to their partners is...
Air Force leaders seek to “flip the switch” on innovation
7 November 2019, SAN FRANCISCO – Will Roper, the Air Force assistant secretary for acquisition, technology and logistics, and Lt. Gen. John “JT” Thompson, Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center commander, said the Air Force is committed to working more closely...
Strengthening Teamwork for Robust Operations in Novel Groups (STRONG)
The future vision for the U.S. Army includes teams of humans and intelligent agents working together to accomplish missions. The U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) has established this new collaborative program, Strengthening Teamwork for Robust Operations in Novel...