Technology Innovation Base

Abstract

The Technology Innovation Base (TIB) effort develops near- and long-term strategies and employs mechanisms to retain the U.S. advantage in current and emerging modernization technology priorities by addressing the capabilities of the innovation base to develop, test, manufacture, and sustain them. This project provides support to technology priority leaders in identifying innovation base needs; characterizing and assessing priority technology investments, identifying and mitigating issues and risks impacting the innovation base, and exploiting opportunities to advance technology development, testing, and manufacturing. One of TIB’s main objectives is to create balance between promotion of the innovation base while protecting the technology from interference or exploitation by competitors. This balance will aid the Department’s advancing critical and emergent technologies ahead of competitor nations and actors while sustaining a healthy, resilient, and globally competitive innovation base. This portfolio of activity extends efforts initiated in response to FY 2019 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) Section 1793. This project uses a three-step approach: (1) Assess, (2) Protect/Promote; and (3) Monitor. In the first step, TIB uses emerging technology assessments to translate technology needs to manufacturing and innovation base requirements in order to identify innovation base issues, risks, and opportunities. TIB created an assessment methodology that incorporates four types of studies to provide a full overview of the technology from a manufacturing and innovation base point of view. The results of the assessments are used to generate innovation-base inputs to technology roadmaps, develop an investment plan addressing the needs of the innovation base, and create technology and innovation base protection and promotion strategies (second step of the approach). TIB leverages DoD and Federal Government tools and initiatives to implement the strategies. In the third step, TIB uses data analytics to measure the success of mitigation and exploitation strategies, establish trends in the markets, and identify the need for additional assessments or changes in investments and strategies. For technology protection, TIB manages the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Research and Engineering) (OUSD(R&E)) responsibilities for the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) reviews. TIB does the initial screening of all CFIUS cases to determine OUSD(R&E) equities and request subject matter experts review in foreign acquisition transactions with a potential negative impact to national security. TIB is the focal point for OUSD(R&E) export control activities. TIB manages the activities necessary to provide technical advice to the Defense Technology Security Administration regarding export control regulations and license review policy. This includes prioritization of critical technologies for inclusion in the Commerce Control List and the U.S. Munitions List and the processing of export license applications involving emergent technologies.

Document Details

• Document Type: Project
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2023
• Source ID: 043_0605797D8Z_6_0400_PB_2023

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