A Report on the Navy SBIR Program: Best Practices, Roadblocks and Recommendations for Technology Transition

Abstract : Over the past few years the Armed Services Committees have shown an increased interest in the DoD doing as much as possible to transition SBIR developed technologies into products or services that support the warfighter. As part of the 2006 National Defense Authorization Act they formulated the Commercialization Pilot Program (CPP), which requests that the DoD SBIR program align itself more closely to Program Executive Offices (PEOs), platforms and warfighter needs, and improve the acceleration of SBIR technologies to the field. OSD ATL improvements could be gained from better sharing of best practices, standardization of repetitive tasks, and better training of SBIR firms, Navy Technical Monitors, PEOs, Fleet leaders (OPNAV) and our contracting officers. This report provides Navy management with well thought-out, defined and documented findings, recommendations and initiatives that will help guide us as we work to make the Navy SBIR program better.