Lorel Wisniewski, Deputy Director

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TIP/MEP Joint Regional Meeting San Francisco,
CA March 12, 2009
Partnerships to Meet Critical National Needs

• Lorel Wisniewski, Deputy Director
• Technology Innovation Program(301) 975-5187 /
  lorel.wisniewski_at_nist.govwww.nist.gov/tip/

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the century ahead poses challenges as
formidable as any from millennia past. As the
population grows and its needs and desires
expand, the problem of sustaining civilizations
continuing advancement, while still improving the
quality of life, looms more immediate.
Grand Challenges for Engineering National
Academy of Engineering 2008
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Grand ChallengesNational Academy of Engineering

• MANAGE THE NITROGEN CYCLE
• PROVIDE ACCESS TO CLEAN WATER
• RESTORE AND IMPROVE URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE
• ADVANCE HEALTH INFORMATICS
• ENGINEER BETTER MEDICINES
• REVERSE-ENGINEER THE BRAIN
• PREVENT NUCLEAR TERROR
• SECURE CYBERSPACE
• ENHANCE VIRTUAL REALITY
• ADVANCE PERSONALIZED LEARNING
• ENGINEER THE TOOLS OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY

• MAKE SOLAR ENERGY ECONOMICAL
• PROVIDE ENERGY FROM FUSION
• DEVELOP CARBON SEQUESTRATION METHODS

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National Perspectiveson Innovation

• To maintain Americas global leadership, we must
  build on our history of scientific advancement to
  revitalize our innovation system for the
• 21st century.
• Science as a Solution, Association of American
  Universities, 2008
• Energy Self-Sufficiency
• Environment and Climate Change
• Twenty-first Century Life Sciences
• National and Homeland Security
• The United States is losing ground
  competitively.
• The ambitious entrepreneurs and scientists who
  are
• willing to invest time and money into an idea are
  being
• lost at a staggering pace to other countries.
• The Power of Place A National Strategy for
• Building Americas Communities of Innovation,
• Association of University Research Parks,
  October 2008

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America COMPETES Act

• A bipartisan response to recommendations
  contained in the National Academies Rising
  Above the Gathering Storm and the Council on
  Competitiveness Innovate America.
• Focused on three primary areas of importance to
  maintaining and improving United States
  innovation in the 21st Century
• Increase research investment
• Strengthen educational opportunities in science,
  technology, engineering, and mathematics from
  elementary through graduate school
• Develop an innovation infrastructure

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NIST InfrastructurePaves the Way to Innovation
The equivalent of research roads and bridges
the industrial and scientific communities need to
develop and commercialize new technologies

• Groundbreaking research tools that foster new
  fields quantum information, nanotechnology,
  bioscience
• Better measurement methods to ensure quality
• Performance measures for accurate technology
  comparisons
• Standards to assure fairness in trade

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TIP Purpose
Assisting United States businesses and
institutions of higher education or other
organizations, such as national laboratories and
nonprofit research institutions, to support,
promote, and accelerate innovation in the United
States through high-risk, high-reward research in
areas of critical national need.
America COMPETES Act (PL 110-69) August 9, 2007
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TIP is Part of NIST

• Funding
• 65 million House/Senate marks FY 2009 including
  management of ongoing Advanced Technology Program
  awards

TIP draws upon NIST scientific and technical
expertise

• Identifying and selecting critical national need
  areas for TIP funding
• Peer review of proposals

NIST benefits from collaborating with TIP

• Learning about critical national needs as applied
  to NIST research
• Enhancing knowledge through proposal review

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Key Features of TIP

• Novel Purpose address societal challenges not
  being addressed in areas of Critical National
  Need (CNN) with benefits that extend
  significantly beyond proposers
• Rich Teaming businesses, academia, national
  labs, nonprofit research institutions and other
  organizations
• Scientific Technical Merit high-risk,
  high-reward research
• Transformational Results strong potential for
  advancing state-of-the-art and contributing to
  U.S. science and technology base
• Societal Challenges justifies government
  attention
• Clear Government Need no other funding sources
  are reasonably available

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Key Features of TIP (contd)

• Institutions of higher education or small/medium
  business may lead a joint venture RD project
• Intellectual property
• Reside with U.S. company or any joint venture
  member (including a university joint venture
  member)
• Opportunities for state involvement with RD
  planning
• Program assessment and annual reports from
  Program and Advisory Board to Congress required

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TIP Project Types

• Funding
• Single company projects up to 3M over a maximum
  of three years
• Joint Venture (JV) projects may be funded up to
  9M over a maximum of five years
• Note TIP funds direct project costs only
• Cost share
• At least 50 of the yearly total project costs
  direct plus indirect
• Composed of both cash and in-kind
• Structure
• Single company projects led by a small or
  medium-sized U.S. company
• Joint venture projects of either
• 1) at least two for-profit U.S. companies with
  the project lead being a small or medium-sized
  company, or
• 2) at least one small or medium-sized company and
  one institute of higher education or other
  eligible organization with the lead being either
  the small or medium-sized company or the
  institute of higher education

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TIPs Critical National NeedFramework

• TIP uses a Critical National Need identification
  selection process to shape its competitions and
  collaborative programs
• What is a Critical National Need?
• An area that justifies government attention
  because the magnitude of the problem is large and
  the societal challenges that need to be overcome
  are not being addressed, but could be addressed
  through high-risk, high-reward research

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TIP Societal Challenges

• What is a TIP Societal Challenge?
• A problem or issue confronted by society that
  when not addressed could negatively affect the
  overall function and quality of life of the
  nation, and as such justify government attention
• A Societal Challenge
• Represents a problem or issue, not a solution or
  answer
• Requires a technical solution
• Is sufficiently difficult to overcome that
  advancements across a multitude of areas is
  warranted

Competition topic areas are based on the needs,
not technologies, for meeting societal challenges
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A Pipeline of Critical National Need Topics

• Leverage nationally recognized science and
  technology reports and know-how
• Evaluate a large field of areas where
  transformative research could be expected to have
  large societal impact
• Use a TIP evaluation framework to assess a
  diversity of areas and challenges
• Maps to Administration Guidance
• Justifies Government Attention
• Essentials for TIP Funding
• Identify interest areas

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A Pipeline of Critical National Need Topics
(contd)

• TIP seeks input from a host of external
  stakeholders and organizations
• Government agencies and advisory bodies (such as
  the National Research Council, the National
  Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of
  Engineering and the Institute of Medicine)
• Science and Technology Policy Institute
• Industry organizations, leading researchers from
  academic institutions, and others
• TIP solicits white papers
• TIP conducts analysis of federal funding to
  determine unique role within a Critical National
  Need and Societal Challenge

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2008 Civil Infrastructure
Advanced Sensing Technologies For The
Infrastructure Roads, Highways, Bridges and
Water Systems

• Poor road conditions cost U.S. motorists 54
  billion a year in repairs and operating costs.
• More than 33 of the nations 600,000 bridges are
  rated structurally deficient or functionally
  obsolete.

Failure to reverse a trend of increasing highway
infrastructure deterioration will lead to
reductions in national and economic security,
lower worker productivity, and a overall
reduction in the quality of life.
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2008 TIP Competition

• Critical National Need
• Civil Infrastructure
• Societal Challenge
• Civil Infrastructure Structural Integrity
• Absence of cost-effective means for establishing
  accurate assessments of the integrity and
  condition of civil infrastructure elements
• TIP Response
• Advanced Sensing Technologies For The
  Infrastructure Roads, Highways, Bridges and
  Water Systems
• Two elements
• Inspection
• Monitoring

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Awards by Application Area
Advanced Sensing Technologies for the
Infrastructure Roads, Highways, Bridges and
Water Systems
Water Wastewater Systems 2 JV projects
Highways Pavement 1 JV project
Highways Bridges 6 projects 2 Single 4 JVs
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Current TIP Critical National Need and Interest
Areas

• Critical National Need Area
• Civil Infrastructure
• Interest Areas
• Energy
• Green Chemistry
• Manufacturing
• Water
• Networks
• Healthcare

This is a list of TIP Critical National Need and
interest areas that TIP has identified to date.
It is not exhaustive and others may be added in
the future.
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What to Expect from TIP

• TIP is building new intelligence by engaging
  thought leaders, for example the National
  Academies, the Science and Technology Policy
  Institute, and others.
• TIP is systematically engaging industry,
  universities, nonprofits, and other interested
  groups, such as federal, state and local
  governments.
• TIP is ready to announce new competitions in
  problem areas within critical national need
  topics beyond civil infrastructure.

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What TIP Needs from You

• Industry, non-proprietary white papers that
  present your views on areas of critical national
  need (www.nist.gov/tip/call_for_white_papers.pdf)
• Innovation community members academic,
  industrial, national/private laboratories with
  a commitment to transform the nation
• Innovators that will strengthen U.S. global
  competitiveness

Visit TIPs website for more information http//ww
w.nist.gov/tip