Leonard Wood Institute

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Leonard Wood Institute
www.leonardwoodinstitute.org

• Fort Leonard Wood Chapter
• Society of American Military Engineers
• Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri
• 14 May 2008

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Agenda

• What is LWI and what is it trying to achieve?
• Relationship with the Army and DoD
• Research Programs
• Collaborative Research and Development
• Special Projects
• Early Stage Business Research and Development
  Phase 0
• Preliminary Economic Impacts

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What is LWI?

• Named for MG Leonard Wood, Harvard educated Army
  Chief of Staff, early technology advocate and
  founder of the Mobile Army
• Organized to enable regional businesses,
  universities, and non-profits to collaborate
  better and faster with the military to meet its
  technology needs and, as a result, build a better
  technology base and improve the economy
• Initiates, funds, and manages LWI-directed
  research projects benefitting the Army/DoD and
  focused on opportunities at the Maneuver Support
  Center (MANSCEN), Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri

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Goals

• Benefit Soldiers
• Build tangible presence for military-related
  science and technology
• Be a catalyst to assist DoD, the Army and FLW in
  bringing new/enhanced functions to
  Missourijoint developments, technology transfer,
  PMs/PEOs
• Promote technology-related economic and business
  development in the region and state
• Focus on UM Technology Park
• Attract/retain defense businesses and jobs

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LWI Strategies 2007-2008

• Initiate, fund and manage research and
  development projects in cooperation with the Army
  Research Laboratory
• Promote, arrange and manage research
  collaborations
• Identify and track the mission and economic
  impacts of LWI actions
• Generate self-sustaining income

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Relationship with the Army

• Signed MOU with MANSCEN to define how the Army,
  LWI and its partners cooperate in
  experimentation, research, technology
  exploration, product development, and education
• Receiving directed funding from Congress through
  a Cooperative Agreement with ARL-HRED
  (training-based, applied research and development
  related to military consequence management)
• On-going efforts to identify high priority
  technology needs and commence projects

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Authorized Capabilities Requirements
DoD ST Requirements
ARL-HRED ST
MANSCEN ST
LWI
Training Based Research in Consequence
Management
Army ST Requirements (TRADOC)
Target for Projects
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Current Year LWI RD Programs

• Collaborative Research Development 20
  competitive projects in 2007 for a total of
  11,000,0008 university, 2 non-profits, 9 small
  businesses and 1 large contractor in robotics,
  counter-IED, CBRN, geospatial, protection
• Special Projects targets special, unanticipated
  needs of the Army and/or DoD especially where a
  joint or interdisciplinary technology requirement
  is addressed through RD-900,000 for 5 projects,
  especially related to human performance topics
• Early Stage Business Research Development
  Phase 0 intended to increase the number of
  small, Missouri-based technology businesses that
  submit high-quality Phase I SBIR/STTR proposals
  and improve the potential for award on track for
  funding 12 projects at 600,000

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Collaborative Research Program

• In 2007 invited proposals for research projects
  and received
• 187 whitepapers requesting 123,000,000
• Received 47 full proposals requesting 26.0
  million approved
• 20 funded projects at 11.0 million entered
  into subaward
• agreements with researchers project results
  9/30/08
• Released new RFP on 24 March 2008, received 221
  white
• papers requesting 143,908,112
  recommendations for full
• proposals in late May fund 18-25 new
  projects in 2008 at
• about 16,000,000 (600,000-800,000
  project average)
• Anticipate awards in late July with NTP middle
  of August, to be
• completed by 9/30/2009

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Early Stage Business (Phase 0) RD Program

• Missouri-based small business that is qualified
  to submit a Phase I proposal
• LWI-funded RD work must be done in Missouri
• Demonstrate need for funds and be preparing to
  submit Phase I proposal
• Show how the idea or technology has technical
  merit and commercial feasibility, and addresses a
  priority technology requirement of DoD/U.S. Army,
  and preferably MANSCEN at Fort Leonard Wood
• No prior Phase I SBIR funding for subject area
• Funding up to 50,000open window for
  applications

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Special Projects RD Program

• Funding set aside for high priority,
  unanticipated requirements of the Army and/or
  other military organizations
• Joint or interdisciplinary technology projects
  are desirable
• Project proposals are to be non-competitively
  evaluated for military value, best fit with LWIs
  objectives, and best use of available funds
• Require the approval of ARL-HRED and LWIs Board
  of Directors
• Remaining program funds will be shifted to
  existing Collaborative Research projects

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Economic Impacts

• Quarterly reporting of employment, payroll and
  expenditures
• Project results through two quarters (direct)
• 1,498,841.60 in net, new Missouri payroll
• 303,888.48 non-personnel Missouri expenditures
• 46 new Missouri-based employees
• MO Department of Economic Development performing
  econometric study to estimate direct and indirect
  impacts

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Maneuver Support ST Conference

• Science and Technology for Maneuver Support
  Conference and ExhibitionExploring the Synergies
  between Consequence Management, Assured Mobility
  and Protection
• 28-30 July 2008
• Provide a forum for state, federal and military
  maneuver support needs to be articulated and
  collaborative responses to be shaped
• Senior leaders will be presenters/speakers

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LWI Contact Information

• Dr. Bob Chapman, Director of Administration
• 573-329-8502, Extension 2121
• RobertChapman_at_leonardwoodinstitute.org
• Joe Driskill, Executive Director
• 573-329-8502, Extension 2321
• Joe.Driskill_at_leonardwoodinstitute.org
• Ron Selfors, Technical Program Manager (Acting)
• 573-329-6522 , Extension 2322
• Ron.Selfors_at_leonardwoodinstitute.org
• Ken Reynolds, Technical Program Assistant
  (Acting)
• 573-329-8502, Extension 2122
• Ken.Reynolds_at_leonardwoodinstitute.org
• Steve Tupper, Fort Leonard Wood LiaisonMissouri
  University of Science and Technology (MST)
• 573-329-8515  
• Tuppers_at_mst.edu