Al Emondi Command Chief Technology Officer SPAWAR

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Al EmondiCommand Chief Technology Officer
SPAWAR, SSC-Charleston al.emondi_at_navy.mil(843)
218-5435
CAPT Bruce Urbon Commanding Officer Philipp
Charles Executive Director
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CTO Organization
Commander (RADM Bachmann)
7.0 (ST) National Lead
HQ CTO (Gary Wang)
CO (CAPT Urbon) TD (Phil Charles)
CHENG (TBD)
7.0 (ST) Local Lead
Command CTO (Al Emondi)
5.2 CTO (Will Gex)
ORTA (TBD)
5.3 CTO (John Andrews)
5.5 CTO (Al Emondi)
5.6/7 (Steve Jarrett)
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Roles and Responsibilities

• Encourage and build innovation and innovative
  teams
• Build intellectual capital and capabilities
• Assist departments to secure ST work
• Mentor and assist workforce
• Technology forecasting and provide technical
  guidance to the command/department
• Build robust external partnerships with ST
  communities in industry, academia, and other
  government organizations
• Transitions technology into Naval capabilities
  rapidly, affordably and efficiently
• Transfers technology into private industry,
  academia, and state and local governments
• Manage the Science and Technology Competency
  (7.0)
• Support command/department objectives for the ST
  Competency
• Maximize the efficiency of ST policies,
  processes, and standards

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Key CTO Team Members
ST IPT
Science Advisors
ST Advisory Council
ST Competency (7.0)

• Science Technology Group (STG)
• Department CTOs
• Experimentation
• Transition Agent

Office of Research Technology
Applications (ORTA)
Legal Council
Building critical mass and infrastructure to
execute ST
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Initiatives

• Innovation Program
• New professional ST focus group
• Publish It! Program
• University Outreach
• Educational Partnership Agreements (EPAs)
• Citadel, Clemson, East North Carolina State
• Visiting faculty and graduate students

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Partnerships and Technology Transition Transfer

• Transition from innovation and new technologies
  to the warfighters
• Spin-off, Spin-on, and dual-use of DoD
  technologies to the private sector and local and
  state governments

End Users
Warfighters
SPAWAR ST Technologies
Pull
Push
Transition Valley of Death
Commercial, State/Local govt, Academia
External ST Technologies
Push
Pull
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Partnerships and Technology Transition Transfer

• Transition from innovation and new technologies
  to the warfighters
• Spin-off, Spin-on, and dual-use of DoD
  technologies to the private sector and local and
  state governments

End Users
Warfighters
ORTA
SPAWAR ST Technologies
Pull
Push
Commercial, State/Local govt, Academia
External ST Technologies
Transition Agent
Push
Pull
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Mapping of CTO Technology Transition
Responsibilities
7.0 Competency Innovation Pgm

• Development of innovative idea transitions from
  internal discretionary funding to external
  funding
• Development of innovative idea transitions from
  one funding category to next (6.1 to 6.2 or 6.2
  to 6.3)

• Innovative idea is first tested in an LOE or
  other operational experiment
• Innovative idea is successfully demonstrated in a
  fleet/marine operational exercise with no leave
  behind
• Innovative idea is incorporated in new capability
  left behind following an operational demo

• Industry incorporates innovative idea into
  product via Patent Licensing
• Work for Private Party agreements
• CRADAs

Experimentation
ORTA
State Local Private Party

• End user customer takes delivery (installation)
  and funds future life cycle support of capability
  developed from or incorporating innovative idea
• Innovative idea is included for the first time in
  an acquisition program in the FYDP
• Acquisition Program of Record delivers capability
  to customer (IOC) that was developed from or
  incorporates innovative idea

CTAs, BAMs, CHENGS
Commercialization
Acquisition
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Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs)
High Risk for Product Launch
Low Risk for Product Launch
P R O D U C T I O N
Academia Partnerships
Prototypes
RTT, TIPS, TTI
Concept Definition
Concept Demonstration
Full Scale Engineering Development
Production
Technology Development
Product Development
Modified from DARPA DSTO
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Research Funding at SSC Charleston
6.1 - Basic Research 6.2 - Applied Research 6.3
- Advanced Technology Development 6.4
- Demonstration and Validation 6.5 - Engineering
and Manufacturing 6.6 - Management and
Support 6.7 - Operational Systems Development
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Business Partnerships

• Business Partnerships
• Cooperative Research Development Agreements
  (CRADA).
• Joint Innovation (Joint Proposals)
• Use of Government Facilities/labs
• COTS
• Think Tech

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Social Network for Harnessing Internal Corporate
Knowledge
How exciting! I've never seen information move
so fast here at the Center If we only had
facebook for SPAWAR, then wed all be using it."
Social Networking in SPAWAR

• Goals
• Project awareness COOs and Supervisors
• Business development window into skills
• Command Technical Authority (CTA)
• Build an effective Social Networking
• Information Sharing
• Solution
• Web based interactive system

Effective Tools

• Business Development
• COOs
• Science Advisors
• CTAs

Competency Managers
Workforce
Existing Capabilities

• Wikis
• Instant Messaging
• Blogs

Social Networking

• Utilizing existing data stores and servers
• Study choke points, use cases, adoption
• Information sharing can be a powerful tool

http//ins1.sd.spawar.navy.mil/wiki/index.php/Soci
al_networking
Principal Investigator Bruce Billian,
Electronics Engineer Code 56440, Federal Systems
Engineering Branch
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FY 2009 Objectives

• Align 7.0 personnel to ST objectives supporting
  their department goals
• Build a command ST portfolio
• Execute FY09 Innovation Program with strengthened
  university partnership
• Organize and build ST business base
• Finalize BSC for CTO Office
• Stand up ST IPT
• Organize SPAWAR Atlantic ST Infrastructure

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• Questions?